
Filed under: News , New Music , Exclusive With Alkaline Trio 's seventh album, 'This Addiction,' out this week, a national tour with Cursive underway and a new Epitaph Records imprint, Heart and Skull, to run, Matt Skiba has a lot on his plate. Still, the Chicago punk trio's main songwriter has other irons in the fire, such as the two solo albums he has in various states of completion. The first, 'Demos,' was due out this month on Asian Man Records before [...]

quoth fauxcommunists rage against the machine. you wouldn't like me when i'm angry said dr bruce banner. yeah? well here's the rub brucey baby: i do like you when you're angry. in fact goddamit i prefer you when you're angry and smashing bloody fuck out of somethingorother. these songs, these songs are the moment, the moment when banners, when banners pupils dilate. these songs, these songs are the scream, that primal scream when the pain and anger, oh all that delicious wet anger comes spewing out. these songs are the wrath of [...]

TUCUMAN ARDE: COUNTER INFORMATION AND THE CREATION OF AESTHETIC AND CULTURAL MILITANCY If there is one thing in my short visit on this planet has taught me, is that the relationship between art and politics is a pretty much a hot mess on your chest. Some would say that without politics there can be no art, and others would take the vice-a-verse stance and tell you that without art - politics would suffer as well. I find that art and artists that wear the skin of the liberal activist are amongst some of the most [...]

Heavens, a side project of Alkaline Trio's Matt Skiba and Joe Steinbrick of F-Minus, have signed to Epitaph Records. The label will release their debut album, Patent Pending, on Aug. 22. [AP] Apparently their original name was GOD (or the Garden Of Delight). So you may have heard of them before under that name. Their new single is different, but good! I'm liking it a lot. I sampled F-Minus a few minutes ago, not my style. But here's an Alkaline Trio song to go with the Heavens' single. [...]