[21 Feb 2008]

ALICIA KEYS INTO THE BIGELF!

In case you missed it...
Here's a cool blurb about the Elf from Miss Keys in O magazine(Oprah's rag).

Now I've seen it all.
I know you're thinking..."Who cares! What about the new album!
"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet"




More praise from the superwoman...
SOUNDTRACK OF MY LIFE: ALICIA KEYS
Sunday January 20, 2008
Observer Music Monthly

The last great thing I heard
Hex, Bigelf (2007)

I'm always hearing new artists that are pushing things in new directions. There's a guy called Rafeese who is definitely interesting - he's very soulful; I met him in the studio and was impressed by the way he sings from his heart. But the band I'm digging most right now are called Bigelf. They're an insane mixture of everything from Led Zeppelin to Stevie Wonder, they look like they've walked out of a picture book on the Seventies, and their lead singer plays two Hammond organs at once. They've certainly got something different going on.

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Thanks AK-Pyromaniac

Bigelf

[07 Dec 2007]

NEW ALBUM UPDATE!

There has been a lot of talk about the new record... "When is it coming out?", "Why is 'Hex' being released again?"

First, 'Hex' was re-released this Halloween because it was never available in the US or on iTunes, simple.

Second, the new record is almost complete. Bigelf will begin mixing at Kung Fu Gardens next week. The band has recorded 14 songs and the release date(we think) is early April. Here are some song titles from the new record...

Gravest Show On Earth
Blackball
No Parachute
Hydra

Check back for more details.

"You're one step closer to doom"

Bigelf

[06 Dec 2007]

HEX GETS 10/10 ON BLABBERMOUTH!!!

BIGELF - HEX

It takes balls the size of church bells to refer to your own band as the "evil BEATLES." To actually back that statement up, and then some, requires the kind of talent that comes down the pike once, maybe twice a decade, if we're lucky. BIGELF backs it up, and then some, on an album that distills an entire decade into one potent, heady brew of psychedelic power pop, proto-metal, arena rock and heavy riff bashing.

When I say the entire decade of the 1970s, I mean it — the opening track is a better "Sabotage"-era BLACK SABBATH song than you could possibly imagine. "Bats In the Belfry" manages to capture both Roger Waters's claustrophobic eye on the world and break down into a wholly unexpected bit of KING CRIMSON or ELP Moog prog madness at the end (that's the end of part one, mind you, which comes way after part two on the record, which makes perfect sense somehow after you've heard it). Want some T. REX? Check the irony-dripping "Rock and Roll Contract" out. Keep digging, and you'll find little pieces of everything from URIAH HEEP to ELO to BOWIE to CHEAP TRICK to the friggin' BAY CITY ROLLERS, all ground up and reconstituted into a band that's so impossibly retro it not only defies the imagination, but somehow ends up coming off new and fresh.

Of course, such a pastiche will only work if it's done so spectacularly well that every note, every keyboard zizzle and guitar flash, every droll vocal, drips with some authentic madness and enough '70s tight-pants swagger to make you believe that they believe that an extended organ solo or Doctor Who keyboards or a goddamn mellotron can save rock and roll, if not the entire universe. BIGELF perform like their lives depend on it, and there's not a lazy moment to be found on "Hex" — if there's a pre-chorus, they've harmonized it to pieces. If there's a place for a big, organic, analog drum fill to thunder down, then thunder down it does. Their sheer conviction moves the project well out of camp or novelty territory — it's not long till you do believe, and you're wound tightly up in the whole ridiculous rock opera with no hope of escape.

Where has this band been all my life? Cryogenically frozen? BIGELF know more cool things about the 1970's than you could shake a wizard's staff at and they've shoehorned every last one of them into this unbelievable prog/glam/metal/whatever epic. This is massive, amazing rock and roll that, despite its retro vibe, is so far ahead of the curve it almost seems unfair to stack it up against anything else coming out this year. (The sad postscript to that is, of course, that this album's been done and out since 2004 but it's only now that a US label has stepped up to release it.) Speaking of bold statements, here's one: if BIGELF did exist in the heyday of ELO, QUEEN, or "Ziggy Stardust"-era DAVID BOWIE, not only would BIGELF be mentioned in the same breath as those acts… they'd give ‘em a fucking run for their money. They're that good. For Chrissake, don't miss this album. - Keith Bergman

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Bigelf

[20 Nov 2007]

BATS IN THE BELFRY III - FREE DOWNLOAD!

Exclusively on Fancorps.com/Bigelf.
Join the Bigelf Legion Of Doom!

Bigelf

[03 Nov 2007]

THE ELUSIVE HEX...NOW AVAILABLE!

On All Hallow's Eve, Bigelf unleashed their underground cult classic "Hex", it's available for the first time in North America! For an immediate dose of doom go directly to iTunes or click below

GET IT ON AMAZON

Bigelf

[03 Nov 2007]

BIGELF & CHRISTINA AGUILERA!

Xstina sings her heart out and Bigelf supply the music for the Instant Karma/Darfur Benefit
Check out the John Lennon classic "Mother" on Myspace.
HEAR IT!

Bigelf