This zine is pretty far off from the ones that I usually pick out. Not personal at all, the zine reads like a more serious version of READ magazine, with a number of political pieces (Arnold being governor, Solar housing, Palestine vs. Israel US spending), while throwing some other random pieces, including writing to McDonalds and reviewing Nickled and Dimed by Barbera Ehrenreich. The zine goes even more quickly than…
I like Chelsea. They were present on a number of different punk compilations that I have heard over the years. This album is a new one for the band, and it is important because it features the trio of James Stevenson, Chris Bashford, and Gene October. This trio was integral in creating the Chelsea sound, and they have not been together in the recording studio since 1979.
Split Subs & Dubs 7″ Entitled “Someone Else’s Dollar” Out Now With Pretty Activity Label Mates The Subjects “Stefan Marolachakis delivers each line as though it were part of a speech that’s going to take a while to finish; when he pauses, you can almost hear him reaching for a glass of water. …and when Marolachakis weaves his woozy croon through the beat, You’re Making It Come Alive frequently lives…
Enter at http://www.totalassault.com/contests/id/01634/ for a chance to win the G. Love custom model guitar from Gretsch, along with a SIGNED harmonica and Shure 520DX “Green Bullet” Harmonica Microphone. You’ll see G. Love playing these instruments all summer long on his headline tour with John Butler Trio and Tristan Prettyman. Make sure you pick up a copy of his new album Superhero Brother before you head out to the show!
Tape Op is one of those zines that really have a double life, informing individuals through letters and interviews but also through the ample advertisements that find their way into the magazine. What seems to be the best thing about Tape op is that interested individuals that are in the field can get a free subscription. I do not honestly know where individuals would have to pay $4.50 for a…
Freshkills – yes, one word – are a five-piece tour guide to the lives, awkward conversations and head games that play out deep into the night in New York City’s dark bars and messy bedrooms. Each protagonist is motivated by sordid appetites, like moths attracted to blackness. Each song has the sound and feel of a mini-apocalypse.
Check out Birdmonster’s great new video for “The Iditarod” from their album From the Mountain to the Sea, out 09/02 in stores and out NOW digitally from the FADER Label.
So something kinda cool happened this week! The Faunts video that we made for the song “M4 (Part II)” is on MTVu’s “Freshman Five” this week, competing against four other videos. The video that gets the most votes (you can vote as many times as you like, as long as you don’t use an automated voting system) goes into rotation at MTVu, which means it’ll be getting 20-25 spins per…
Matt Wertz is from Liberty, Missouri, but has called Nashville, Tennessee, home for the last seven years. It seems fitting that he would be writing his own biography on the cusp of his first major label release, just as he did eight years ago before releasing his first independent album. This time, though, he’s not trying to play it off like he didn’t write it. Matt goes on to say…
NeuFutur #6 – At one point in this zine the editor mentions that in the past, his writing has been criticized for being too impersonal. And I would agree with him. Even after he throws in some “personal narrative” it just seems very rigid and reserved. The writing covers – a look at the ENDA, vague insturctions for an electric bicycle, zine and music reviews, a warning about crazed Christian…
If there’s one thing that can be said about Long Island’s BAYSIDE, it’s that their relationship with fans has always been paramount. In keeping with this level of respect for their audience, they’ve decided to release the track listing of their upcoming album Shudder on Victory Records (release date: September 30, 2008). Produced by David Schiffman (Weezer, Jimmy Eat World, Johnny Cash), Shudder is the follow-up to 2007’s critically-acclaimed release…
Individuals that have been around the music scene for a few years will undoubtedly have heard of Jeff Buckley. I know that I got into music a few years too late to hear any of Buckley’s stuff back when it was new, but I heard the legend of Buckley’s name every few months for about the last decade. When I actually received a copy of “So Realâ€, I was able…
As the title suggests, Asva’s second album maps an internal landscape – wild, vast, open – at once breathtakingly beautiful as it is potentially dangerous. A psychogeographical vista of mountain highs, barren rolling plains and oceanic lows.
This magazine makes me feel uncomfortable. I have a sneaking suspicion that this is a Yuppie magazine. This should not be a reason why people avoid Stopsmiling; rather, there are some interesting pieces in this issue of the magazine. I have absolutely no idea about any of the individuals that they cover in this issue of Stopsmiling; if that was their goal, they have succeeded completely. Of particular note this…
It has been a few years since I have heard anything in the way of discussion about Limp Bizkit, or any of the members from that band. Black Light Burns features former Limp Bizkit guitarist Wes Borland, as well as members from acts like The Esoteric, Open Hand, Turn of the Screw and From First to Last. “Mesopotamia†is the first track on “Cruel Melodyâ€, and individuals that are looking…
Stopsmiling is a magazine that is in a bizarre world – take an issue of ARTnews and make it not as interesting, not as funny, and one will have an idea of the general gist of Stopsmiling. The zine begins like many of the other glossy publications with an absolute assload of ads – 17 pages before anything remotely zine-related starts the zine off. The layout of the entire issue…
The next stage of Nachtmystium’s seemingly worldwide takeover supporting their newest output - Assassins: Black Meddle Part I – the Chicagoan stormtroopers have just been added to Norway’s annual Hole In The Sky Festival this weekend! Frontman Blake Judd speaks: ‘This will be our first Scandinavian performance and we’re very excited to be there!” Confirmed to play on the main stage Saturday night, joining the amazing weekend lineup including Dismember, At The Gates, Brutal Truth, Municipal Waste,…
Cassettes Won’t Listen To Release Freeze & Explode Extended Single and Video on September 9th, 2008 Listen to ‘Another One’ at cassetteswontlisten.com now “…demands your attention, simply because it is one of the best songs that 2008 has produced to date” Pop Matters
Hot off their heels of a recent appearance at a packed house for the Rok Lok 10 Year Anniversary Fest at the Knitting Factory, Long Island noisemakers YES SENSEI are pleased to announce the details surrounding the myriad of new releases they have coming out before the New Year touches down. First up is a 7 inch called 3 songs which will be released by Rok Lok Records and UK…
Sophomore LP “Lightbulbs†To Be Released September 16th On Deaf, Dumb + Blind Recordings Announce US Fall Tour