2006 TOP PICKS

TV EYE STAFF 2006 TOP PICKS
in no particular order (like anyone ever does that!):

S E L D O N H U N T

Battle of Mice - A Day of Nights
Mastodon - Blood Mountain
sunn0)))/Boris - Altar
Isis - In the Absence of Truth
Made Out of Babies - Coward
Jesu - Silver EP
Knut - Terraformer
Cattle Decapitation - Karma Bloody Karma
Genghis Tron - Dead Mountain Mouth
Khylist - Chaos is My Name

D A V E C L I F F O R D

Tragedy - Nerve Damage
(The) Melvins - (A) Senile Animal
Isis - In The Absence of Truth
Made Out of Babies - Coward
Liars - Drum's Not Dead
Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
Andrew Douglas Rothbard - Abandoned Meander
Celebration - S/T
Order of the Vulture - S/T
Lesbian - Power Hor (demo)
Red Sparowes - Every Red Heart Shines Toward the Red Sun

S A M J A M E S V E L D E

Liars- Drums Not Dead
(The) Melvins- (A) Senile Animal
Nas- Hip Hop Is Dead
Pusher- Demo
The Black Crowes- Lost Crowes
Celebration- Celebration
The Duke Spirit- Cuts Across The Land
AA Bondy- Demos
Bad Brains- Live At CBGB DVD

J E N N Y M C G E E

(the) Melvins "A Senile Animal" (Ipecac)
Jesu "Silver" (Hydrahead)
Made Out of Babies "Coward" (Neurot)
Witch "Witch" (Tee Pee)
SunnO)))/Boris "Altar" (Southern Lord)
Mastodon "Blood Mountain" (Reprise)
Red Sparowes "Every Red Heart Shines Toward the Red Sun" (Neurot)
The Heads "Under the Stress of a Headlong Dive" (Alternative Tentacles)
Dead Moon: Unknown Passage DVD (www.magicumbrella.com)
Mastodon: The Workhorse Chronicles DVD (Relapse)

A N N A H R N J A K

1. Crom at 3 Clubs in Los Angeles: Total mayhem. Everyone was nearly naked and beer drenched by the end of the night. Crom is very, very powerful.
2. Saviours at the Mountain Bar: Hail Saviours! My favorite band this year. They get better and better.
3. Big Buisness at the Scene Bar in Glendale: Jared transformed himself into a human pizza box.
3. The 666 Show with High on Fire, Crom, Oxbow, Nachmystium and a million others: So many nice people.
4. Mastodon at the Henry Fonda Theatre: I would have enjoyed it more if I wasn't working. But always amazing live.
5. Iron Maiden at the big corporate named arena down in Orange county: A beautiful evening. Bruce Dickenson is heroic. Best vocalist ever.
6. Burning Brides at the Fuck Yeah Fest at the Echo: Besides 400 Blows and the Brides, all those other bands sucked ass. Just Horrible. Who are those people? Now do you understand my obsession with the Court TV network?
7: Sunn0))) and Boris at the Echo: Honestly I can't remember if that was this year or last. I think I lost my overies that night.

X MASS

Santa is bearing gifts.......

Illustration by Dvdandrea (www.dvdandrea.com)

ALTER

Looks like TV Eye is getting to the outer reaches. Recieved and email from a comrade in Australia by the name of Baden Scarr. Baden's digging the mag and dvd, and is using a pic for his Boris blog. Peep it here: http://borisrocks.blogspot.com/

WITH SAD EYES.......

Sad day here at the TV Eye offices. Just after the exceptional documentary release and 2 disc CD set, Oregon's Dead Moon have called it a day after 2 decades of balls to the walls rock n roll! Sub Pop posted this: "After 20 yrs.....It has been a journey we will always treasure and feel that a worldwide family has emerged in its place. Dead Moon became much bigger than the band itself, it became a DIY underground hopeful for a lot of people. The candle is still burning." We're bumming! Long Live Dead Moon!!