Beyond Hatred / 2008 First Run Features / 85 Minutes / http://www.firstrunfeatures.com / Individuals may have seen Beyond Hared when it was first released on the arthouse / documentary circuit last year, but Olivier Meyrou (Celebration, Poisoned Ink, The Meal)’s documentary has just made it to DVD. The action in Beyond Hatred starts out after a 2002 incident in which three French skinheads, trolling for an “Arab” to beat up,…
Believe’s new album “Yesterday Is A Friend†is getting its first reviews. Below you can read a fantastic review done by Bob McBeath for one of the most important websites about progressive rock www.progarchives.com.
The fabulous itinerant mountain woman / prodigy Larkin Grimm has signed to Young God Records (who’s previous discoveries include Akron/Family, Devendra Banhart and Fire on Fire). The album is in progress and will be finished end of May. It will be released September ’08. It’s produced by Young God Records head Michael Gira and Larkin Grimm.
One of the hardest-working, coffee-fueled, howling, growling duos to come out of Vancouver, The Pack A.D., have just announced their upcoming Funeral Mixtape will be released on Mint Records on August 12, 2008. This EP proceeds their Mint debut, Tintype, and takes their blues to a grittier level.
Profane Existence #49 / $5 / 104M / http://www.profaneexistence.com /Â It has been quite a few years since I was lucky enough to come across a copy of Profane Existence (the last issue I got to review was #38). In the meantime, the issue has moved from a newspaper to a more traditional magazine style and the content has exploded into the post-100 page range. This is not just interviews…
    Cutting-edge hard rock / metal bands THE SWORD and WITCHCRAFT will join Ozzy Osbourne and Metallica amongst the live acts chosen to participate in OZZFEST 2008, set to take place on Saturday, August 9 in Dallas, TX. The dynamic, Austin, TX based band and the respected Swedish psyche-rock quartet will each bring their critically acclaimed live sets to the OZZFEST arena as part of the just-announced one-day stadium spectacular.
Brooklyn orchestral popsters, Clare & the Reasons, have a few key East Coast dates this summer. Mid June, the band will be at the Berklee Performance Center with My Brightest Diamond, after which they’ll return to New York for a Joe’s Pub Date.
Delta Spirit will showcase tunes from their debut “Ode to Sunshine†on stages across the nation this spring starting on May 17th. After opening sold-out tours for Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Cold War Kids, and Dr. Dog to ardent acclaim, the Southern California-based collective recently signed to famed Rounder Records and plan to release their debut album in late summer/early fall of 2008.
Philadelphia’s BRASS have officially released their new three-song EP, A SMALL BREATH, for free digital download. For more information, go here. For instant gratification, voila!
Profane Existence #48 / $5 / 104M / http://www.profaneexistence.com / Profane Existence brings forth another strong batch of interviews (this time, making sure a wide selection of global bands such as Migra Violenta and The Dagda are covered), but it is actually in their informational articles that the zine truly makes its worth known. Specifically, the exhaustive discussion of the current genocide in Sudan by Dave Trenga is of a…
