Maryland rockers CLUTCH are kicking off their summer tour tonight in Fayetteville, AR at George’s Majestic Lounge. Support will be provided by Prong and Lionize. The tour also features festival appearances at the “Forecastle Festival” in Louisville, KY and the “Artscape Festival” in Baltimore, MD. The run is scheduled to wrap up July 22nd in Richmond, VA at The National. CLUTCH will also be playing select dates in August with…
We just started playing Magic: The Gathering after the 2012 Core Set dropped, and have noticed that this year has had a number of impressive releases by Wizards of the Coast. Whether it was the addition of the Graveborn deck to the Premiunm Deck Series or the Venser Vs. Koth Duel Deck, players have been able to access a wide array of gameplay styles and see the diversity of game…
2012 marks the ten year anniversary of this dynamic, experimental, multi-disciplinary arts festival, which identifies the otherwise indescribable connections between contemporary music, art, performance and film. To commemorate this impressive and very special milestone this year, Capsule propose to work with Supersonic alumni and emerging artists to celebrate the achievements of the festival thus far whilst also focusing firmly on the contemporary. Because as well as giving a warm welcome…
Sometime during 1980 searching for a harder/faster outlet than the current NYC punk rock trend, three teenagers from Jackson Heights, Queens: Jack Flanagan, Jose Gonzalez and Ralph Gebbia formulated THE MOB. Once the concept was established they added high-school bud Jamie Shanahan on drums, to round out the 4 piece assault. The early MOB sound was heavily influenced by what was going on in L.A. and D.C. With NY not…
To celebrate their debut album release, This Might Hurt, in the United States on July 17th, THE TREATMENT will make an exclusive iTunes bundle available – a five song covers EP originally released exclusively in the UK as a 300 copy limited edition. The covers EP features THE TREATMENT’s interpretations of: ‘Run Run Run’ – Jo Jo Gunne ‘Evil Woman’ – ELO ‘Motor Biking’ – Chris Spedding ‘Lets…
Albuquerque, NM doom/post-metal trio NIGHT TERRAIN have set July 24th as the day on which their gripping and wholly creative full-length debut American Dream will be self-released. Theirs is a sound that is hard to peg, but does at times bring to mind acts like Neurosis and Pink Floyd. The riffs can go from slow, sludgy and droning to uplifting or face melting within a heartbeat. The mission statement is…
PROSTHETIC RECORDS is pleased to announce the signing of ripping death-metal maniacs, EYECONOCLAST. Formed in 2003 in Rome, Italy, the band have developed into a crushing force of blasting death-thrash metal, with former members of HOUR OF PENANCE and Fleshgod Apocalypse in their ranks and several underground releases under their belts. Having caught the attention of PROSTHETIC RECORDS, who eagerly signed the band, EYECONOCLAST are currently preparing to enter…
Eric Diedrichs should be famous. As the brain trust of CARI CLARA, he proves once and for all with Midnight March that his music has the melodic fortitude to appeal to pop music fans, the imagination to appeal to indie music snobs, the poetic depth to appeal to English professors and the raw emotionalism to appeal to emo kids. This album is not only bigger, bolder, brighter and more cohesive…
Kansas City indie rock band The Casket Lottery have announced plans to release their first new EP, The Door, in seven years on August 7 via No Sleep Records. Additionally, frontman Nathan Ellis will also be releasing his first ever solo, self-titled EP the same day. The EPs can be pre-ordered on 7” vinyl now at http://nosleepstore.com/artist/the-casket-lottery. Listen to the title track from The Door streaming here: http://bit.ly/NKW5iY Listen to…
Paper Bag Records is excited to announce details of the new album from the ever-morphing Slim Twig which will be released in North America on CD, LP and DL on August 21st. Sof’ Sike is a dramatic left (er, make that a right) turn follow-up to 2009’s Contempt! and replaces analog drum machines and scratched record samples with the psychedelic rumblings of live instrumentation: pianos, organs, guitar, bass, drums. Watch…
A few things you need to know about Jason Brody, the mind and voice behind At Sea: He’s a native New Yorker who everyone assumes is from California. He spent years battling stage fright (though now you’d never know it). And he once killed himself to make better music. All of those aspects, and many more, play a role in At Sea, who release their full-length debut A New Machine…
August 21st will see the 12″ vinyl release of New Jersey/New York’s NIGHT BIRDS Fresh Kills Vol. 1 singles and demo collection (originally released on CD format in 2011), courtesy of Richmond’s Grave Mistake Records. The album will consist of the band’s first three now out of print 7″ singles and 2009 demo. It can currently be streamed at the Grave Mistake Records Bandcamp page here: http://gravemistakerecords.bandcamp.com/album/fresh-kills-vol-1. Preorders will be…
Sleepy Vikings treat us to a new song, via a premiere over at Suburban Apologist, called “Easter Sunday Girls”. What a great summer song, with it’s instantly-recognizable indie “90’s hey day” unfluence. The song will be featured on a mega-limited cassette only EP available at this Saturday’s show at Tampa’s New World Brewery. The show doubles as a farewell show to drummer Ryann Slauson who is heading for…
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The 16-bit remixes of “Mutual Core” and “Hollow” are out now on One Little Indian Records. The tracks can be heard here http://soundcloud.com/sacksco/bjork-hollow-16-bit-remix/s-XA7aD and here http://soundcloud.com/sacksco/bjork-mutual-core-16-bit-remix/s-CcRld.The release is the seventh in an eight-part series of remixed tracks from Björk’s Biophilia. The first six entries in the series are currently available and feature the Current Value remixes of “Crystalline,” “Solstice,” “Hollow” and “Thunderbolt,” the Death Grips remixes of “Thunderbolt” and “Sacrifice,”…
Swedish death metal legends GRAVE will release their 10th studio album Endless Procession Of Souls on August 27th in Europe and on August 28th in North America via Century Media Records. Recorded at Studio Soulless, Endless Procession Of Souls promises to be yet another death metal masterpiece in GRAVE’s revered catalog, featuring ten tracks of uncompromising no-bullshit death metal, flawlessly executed by the sole survivors of the real legendary Swedish…
Dance wunderkinds Justice have just released a video for their latest single, “New Lands”. The track, which is based on the work of AC/DC, is matched perfectly with its video. They tapped the Spanish collective Canada for this one and the results are stunning. Check it out and pass it along: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DgAfs4FutI&feature=youtu.be From the band/Ed Banger: “First, there are tense bodies,…
In the mid 2000’s a young Johnny Solomon was a fixture in the tight knit Twin Cities music scene, forming the angular indie pop band Friends Like These and touring extensively, he received critical praise from far flung sources such as Time Out New York, the College Music Journal and numerous local articles and accolades, including a City Pages cover story that looked like the beginning of a promising…
John Darnielle is a human male and American musician who was born in Indiana. Alone or in collaboration with others, he has been known as the Mountain Goats since 1991. He grew up in Central California, and has lived in many states, but now lives in North Carolina with his wife and child and at least one cat that I have observed. I visited his home in…
Bell Gardens began with just two friends – Kenneth James Gibson (Furry Things, [a]pendics.shuffle) and Brian McBride (Stars Of The Lid) over many late nights talking and playing for each other the songs that have inspired them over the years. Citing influences such as Jack Nietzsche, Phil Spector, The Beach Boys and Dennis Wilson’s solo recordings, both musicians harboured a burning desire to traverse a pop sound that often belies…