Tag: King’s X
Best Of 2022 – Lone Watie: I Just Microwaved My Lunch Except It Wasn’t My Lunch It Was My Salad.
I’d originally written more than a thousand words for this space. I’d begun with “Somebody asked me early in 2022 how I define happiness,” and spent a great deal of words and energy then describing …
Best Of 2022 – Andrew Edmunds: An Antonym For Synonym Is Antonym, But A Synonym For Antonym Is The Opposite
As of the first week of December, it’s been fifteen years since I started writing for Last Rites — which wasn’t called Last Rites then, if you remember. (And if you don’t, then it’s irrelevant, …
Last Rites Presents: Our Most Anticipated Albums Of 2021, Part 2
Ooh Crikey, it’s… Lawnmower Deth! Wait, no… It’s just Part 2 of our Most Anticipated Releases of 2021, which, fittingly, is filled with things we hope will mow us over this year. How’s your 2021 …
Last Rites’ Facebook Albums Of The Week: May 6th – 12th
“Album Of The Day” is a Last Rites Facebook feature we started recently whose purpose is quite straight-forward: highlight one album per day and say a few words about it. Understanding that not everyone chooses …
Music Over My Head – A King’s X Primer, Part 2
The first part of this two-piece primer covered King’s X’s golden era, the ten years between their debut and the loss of their major label deal. Of the six records they released during that decade, …
Music Over My Head – A King’s X Primer, Part 1
Generally speaking, artists are the sum of their influences. Narrow the scope of the influences and you narrow the scope of the art, and the artist will have a harder time separating his or her …
King’s X – Ogre Tones Review
Originally written by Ramar Pittance It’s an unsettling sort of honor to review a King’s X album. While I’m not entirely familiar with their catalog, I’ve heard enough to develop a healthy reverence for this …