VICTORIAN HALLS are about as face-value as a Kubrick film. The Chicago four-piece have an uncanny knack for constructing gleaming, crystalline, compact pop gems … and then going after them with an axe like Jack Nicholson. They build the museum-worthy sculpture, and then dash it to the ground, manically laughing their heads off the whole time. It’s the musical equivalent of a Pollock painting – a vibrant, technicolor, utterly uninhibited…
Street punk stalwarts TOTAL CHAOS continues hold their ground at the fore front of the American street punk scene with their new album Avoid All Side. And in support of their new album TOTAL CHAOS has announced Summer 2008 European Tour dates. Be sure to check out TOTAL CHAOS on this tour. 7/31 Dusseldrof, Germany @ AK 47 8/1 Metz, France @ Concert Bar 8/2 Charleroi, Belgium @ Salle MPA…
Philadelphia: Candlelight Records today confirms the signing of North Carolina-based sludge/doom metal band Sourvein. The popular five-piece on tour now through August 11 have recorded a special/limited edition ep titled Imperial Bastard which will see domestic release on September 30. It will be followed by the band’s Billy Anderson-produced full-length label debut currently planned for release in early 2009.
Always A Six, Never A Nine is the second album and the follow up to the 2006 self-titled debut from Portland, OR aggro wreckers Black Elk, whose psychotic brand of crushing, noise-rock influenced heaviosity is a return to the unhinged underground rock force of bands like Jesus Lizard, Melvins, Black Flag and Hammerhead. This new album features ten songs of seething weirdness, with the dissonant, crushing riffage, lunging rhythmic push…
The Single Will Be Split With Fellow Brooklynites, The Subjects, Out August 12th On Pretty Activity Records Sophomore LP “French Exit†Out This Fall On Flameshovel/Pretty Activity Records Saturday, July 26 @ Union Hall (702 Union Street) Brooklyn, NY / Set Time: 10:30pm
Queensryche front man Geoff Tate has teamed up with Walla Walla, Washington-based 3 Rivers Winery (www.threeriverswinery.com) to create a new red wine signature blend called Geoff Tate “Insania.” “Insania” — a Latin word meaning insanity, irrationality, madness — will likely be unveiled in the fall and initially available to the general public by next year.
Satan’s Panties #6 / $1 / 24 Pages / Half-Sized / Trade / MeNMyCharms@aol.com Alli / P.O. Box 761 / Mountain View, CA This zine has some of the most hard to read and light font’s that I have ever seen. That doesn’t stop it from being a very humourous and well-written magazine that forced me through its twenty-four pages just as a cashier forces customers through a line. #6…
The South African documentary “DO YOU BELIEVE IN MAGIC?”, which tells the poignant coming of age story of two young men from Cape Town in pursuit of their dreams of becoming stage magicians, has been awarded Best Documentary at the Fourth Annual African Academy Awards in Nigeria. “DO YOU BELIEVE IN MAGIC?”, which had its North America premiere at the Pan African Film and Arts Festival in Los Angeles in…
Raymond Burr (1917–1993) was an enigma. A film noir regular known for his villainous roles in movies like Rear Window, he eventually became one of the most popular stars in television history. He delighted millions of viewers each week with the top-rated shows Perry Mason and Ironside, which ran virtually uninterrupted for nearly 20 years. As crusading lawyer Perry Mason, he never lost a case in TV’s first one-hour crime…
Sacrum is a representative of Polish heavy style of music related to the death-doom metal genre and based on heavy guitars, mid-paced rhythms and distinctive sound of keyboards. They have intentionally chosen a style inspired by the art of such bands as Opeth, In Flames, Moonspell, Amorphis and Therion. In spite of being active for a few years, the band still tries to achieve an appropriate level of popularity, treating…
Singer/songwriter/performer JARBOE has issued an update on her upcoming new album and a live appearance on the West Coast.
Here is another sneak peek from UK chamber pop/twisted folk artist Windmill. His latest Puddle City Racing Lights comes out July 15th on Friendly Fire in the US. After much acclaim from the UK press, people stateside such as USA’s Pop Candy, RCRD LBL, Catbird Seat, XLR8R and many others are saying very nice things. As an added bonus, Windmill has recorded his take on Elliott Smith’s classic “Pitseleh”. Enjoy!
Wind-up Entertainment and the rock band Cartel have entered in to a number of agreements. The band’s future recordings will be released by Wind-up Records. Additionally, the sale of all Cartel merchandise at on-line, retail, and touring points of sale will be handled by Wind-up Entertainment’s Pronto Merch. Lastly, Cartel has entered in to an agreement with Wind-up Artist Development Corporation, Inc.
In celebration of a long, esteemed and wholly unique career that has seen The Guardian dub them “the best live band in Britain” A3 (known outside the U.S. as “Alabama 3” are to release a definitiveretrospective and tour the US this July, following recent performances at fundraisers and in Brixton Prison (!). Featuring material from throughout their years together, these shows culminated in Rock Against Racism’s HopeNot Hate concert at…
R.O.N. #5 / :15 / 28M / kungfluvirus@hotmail.com / What I first was freaked out about this zine is that the editor, who is never named, connected to me directly when ey mentioned 8 Bark, one of the first punk bands that I picked up. To this day, I still don’t think I’ve ever listened to that disc, but nonetheless, it was a weird opening to this zine. It is…
Hailing from Birmingham, Alabama, The Broken Letters exist as the primary medium for the songwriting and vocal lyricism of David Hickox. With a crooked craft of melody and a penchant for dark and Biblical delivery, the Broken Letters create songs of love and death, birth and pain, of the moon and of a great fire. Their full-length LP, Sing the Burning Alphabet, is out this summer.
“The time is right for Wire, right now. Welcome them again, they’ve come back to save you” Charles Inskip, Artrocker [on Read & Burn 03 – 2007]* In the five years since the release of their last album Send [in May 2003] Wire have expounded, reviewed, contracted, lain dormant, recovered, expanded and through all that have shed an old skin and grown a new one. Wire is not the same…
Check out Birdmonster’s great new track “Born To Be Your Man” from their upcoming record From the Mountain To the Sea, out 08/05 digitally and 09/02 physically on FADER Label.
Tennessee’s metal contingent The Showdown is proud to announce the release of their upcoming album, Back Breaker, due August 19 on Solid State Records. The crushing new record marks The Showdown’s Solid State debut.
The Stranger – 30th Anniversary Edition To Be Released As 2 CD Legacy Edition & Deluxe Limited Edition With ‘Old Grey Whistle Test’ DVD + 48 Page Booklet