06.21.10 – San Diego, CA @ the Soda Bar 06.26.10 – San Jose, CA @ Left Coast Live Festival 07.10.10 – New York City, NY @ the Rockwood Music Hall 07.11.10 – New York City, NY @ the Zebulon Lounge 07.12.10 – New York City, NY @ Pete’s Candy Store 07.13.10 – New York City, NY @ Bruar Falls 07.15.10 – Sacramento, CA @ the Blue Lamp w/ Admiral Radley…
The Bay Area’s Jewish Music Festival marks its two and a half decades with a day of free outdoor festivities for all ages and background at the Yerba Buena Gardens on July 11, 2010, including instrument building workshops, instant choruses, klezmer jams, and performances running from kid-friendly to hip. In addition to the fun free-for-all, the Festival is presenting several groundbreaking multi-media, multi-platform performances, the edgy interpretation of Jewish roots…
Jun 23 The Space (Chicago, IL) Jun 24 The Basement (Columbus, OH) Jun 26 Mixtape Venue (Grand Rapids, MI) Jun 28 Firebird (St. Louis, MO) Jun 29 Record Bar (Kansas City, MO) Jul 03 El Corazon (Seattle, WA) Jul 04 Backstage Bar (Vancouver, BC) Jul 06 Bottom of the Hill (San Francisco, CA) Jul 07 Anthology (San Diego, CA) Jul 08 Wasted Space (Las Vegas, NV) Jul 09 Troubador (Los…
Khold is currently on hiatus, which sucks. However, the music that was recorded for “Krek” shows the band at a slightly happier time. The fury in which the band drenches their compositions on “Krek” is something new for most metal fans, as the band during tracks like “Blod Og Blek” uses a very sludgy sound to get their point across. Khold thus comes forward with a new hybrid of metal…
Small Black are busy fellas these days. Small Black have also been busy in the lab putting the final touches on their first full-length album, and apparently they’re getting power tools involved! Today we are proud to present a new music video directed by Nick Bentgen for “Bad Lover” off of their self-titled EP. The video features incandescent glows, acetylene torches, and an array of instruments of construction/ destruction that…
June 23rd Liv in Washington DC, MD June 24th Southpaw in NY, NY June 25th Spring 4th in Atlanta, GA June 26th Venue TBC in Miami, FL June 29th Johnny Brenda’s in Philadelphia, PA Quadron’s self-titled release is available now on Plug Research (www.plugresearch.com). For more info on Quadron, please see www.myspace.com/quadronquadron.
Khierstin used to be a teenage model, and this fact really makes sense when one hears the opening strains of the title track. What comes forth is an inoffensive, innocuous brand of pop music that is vocally-led, so much so that the instrumentation present is pushed to the background. Each of the tracks on “Lost In This” sounds similar to what has been common fare in popular music – that…
Shredding, PA’s premier gang of death/thrash/reggae maniacs, GLOOMINOUS DOOM, have just announced a string of live dates with everyone’s favorite amplifier destroyers, underground sludge/noise/rock legends JUCIFER. GLOOMINOUS DOOM’s new album, The Feature, is now available from DRP Records, and comes jam-packed with the quartet’s trademark tongue-in-cheek humor, razor-sharp riffs, thrashing mayhem, punk attitude, death metal ferocity, low-slung reggae grooves, and just a dash of drag-racin’ PBR-guzzlin’ redneck flair. Oh, and…
Al-Jazeera today announced that renegade shock-rockers GWAR have recently and secretly returned to North America to begin the final preparations for a host of promo events and concert appearances in their continuing two-year long 25th Anniversary. After a lightening-quick four-month break spent in the band’s hulking south-pole fortress (“fighting penguins…” claimed GWAR front-thing ODERUS URUNGUS, “and working on a new album…”), the band reportedly made landfall late Wednesday evening, arriving…
From Italy, Kharisma play a style of muted punk that has a definite eye towards the early nineties subset of punk rock. Starting out their demo disc with their theme song, “Kharisma” has compelling vocals laid down by GD, but a pretty weak electric guitar holds Kharisma back from really achieving their potential. This lack of guitar energy is endemic to the entire disc, and really is something to be…
David Karsten Daniels newest album ‘I Mean To Live Here Still’ is a collaboration with avant nine piece Fight The Big Bull and will be available digitally on FatCat Records this summer. With lyrics borrowed from the work of transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau and Daniels’ voice backed by the glorious and big-hearted Richmond, VA based Fight The Big Bull, this is an album worth repeated listens and one which will…
I forget, is a two track album a proclamation to the world that the band feels that they can hang in with such storied acts as Klaus Schultze and Jethro Tull, or does it just say that the band is a bunch of pretentious assholes? One thing that can be said about bands that use such drawn out tracks (the shorter of the two tracks is still a shade over…
Low Twelve began in a basement on West Graham Street in Bloomington Illinois during the summer of 1998. The band was founded by bassist/singer Pete Altieri and guitarist Tim McCleland. Les Aldridge was added as a second lead guitarist in late 1998 before the band’s first performance. Original drummer Steve Chestney was replaced by Wes Pollock in late 1999. The band recorded two demos prior to their first full length,…
Tobacco Tour Dates: Thursday, Sept. 9 – Washingon, DC @ DC9 w/ Junk Culture, Dreamend Friday, Sept. 10 – Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church w/ Junk Culture, Dreamend Saturday, Sept. 11 – Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar w/ Junk Culture, Dreamend Thursday, Sept. 16 – Northampton, MA @ Iron Horse w/ Junk Culture, Dreamend Friday, Sept. 17 – South, VT @ Higher Ground w/ Junk Culture, Dreamend Saturday, Sept. 18…
I should have guessed when the first track on “Always Never The Same”, “Tree of Night” started up, that this band had been around for a few years as it contained some of the most solid instrumentation that I’ve ever heard from a ska band. Every part of this eight-piece is given equal time on this disc, and one can hear drums ,brass, bass, and guitars all kicking in behind…
On the tail end of their current US tour, Minus The Bear will be back on the road again this summer. Kicking off with a handful of Canadian shows in June, the guys will then make their way east before returning to their hometown of Seattle in July. Check out their new video, “My Time”. OMNI, is available courtesy of Dangerbird. Tour Dates: June 25 Victoria, BC – Sugar Nightclub…
Fast-rising doom rock trio BLACK PYRAMID premieres its new music video – for the song “Mirror Messiah” today via The Obelisk. The powerful, straightforward clip was lensed at Massachusetts’ Valley Homegrown and features an audio mix courtesy of Justin Pizzoferrato (Sonic Youth / Witch / Dinosaur Jr.). The “Mirror Messiah” video drops hot on the heels of BLACK PYRAMID’s recent U.S. tour dates in support of its much talked about…
Kate Kennedy plays a very guitar-heavy type of looking-back rock. The new-folk of a track like “The Blues Are Exhausted” has Kennedy singing in the vein of Suzanne Vega and other nineties alternative singers, as the acoustic guitars play a folk-style that screams 2006 looking back at 1936. The guitars play interesting harmonies during “The Blues Are Exhausted”, and this is only helped by the inclusion of percussion during the…
09/16 – Chicago, IL @ Charter One Pavilion at Northerly Island 09/17 – Detroit, MI @ DTE Energy Music Theatre 09/18 – Toronto, ON @ Molson Canadian Amphitheatre 09/20 – Uncasville, CT @ Mohegan Sun Arena 09/22 – Boston, MA @ Agannis Arena 09/24 – New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden 09/25 – Camden, NJ @ Susquehanna Theatre 09/26 – Fairfax, VA @ Patriot Center 09/28 – Atlanta, GA…
The echoing of Kelley’s vocals during “High Boots” is interesting. The rarities aspect of this disc means that the tracks are collected through the entirety of Kelley’s life. The production of some of these tracks are a little suspect, but one can hear early that Kelley has an ear for this music. One of the things that individuals can see immediately with “Some Sucker’s Life” is that the tracks are…