In the vast bleakness that is a Canadian winter, any reminder of summer is a welcome distraction from the blowing snow and brown slush. So every year when the first bands start to sign up for Kevin Lymans annual cross country summer camp known as The Vans Warped Tour, the reminders of bright summer days, and cramming twelve hours of music into one day are enough to sprout wood. This year was no different. The original list of bands was a veritable who's who of my ipod's top played list. So needless to [...]
In the sea of alternative, hardcore, and pop-punk that floods every Vans Warped Tour, few bands match up to Thrice . Unlike the majority of their peers (with the exception of Dillinger Escape Plan or Emery), this melodic hardcore act has managed to hold true to its roots, elaborating on lyrics despite entering a more computerized age, as they did with 2005's Vheissu . While not the hottest-selling, multiple-disc concept release we know of, the following quadruple album, The Alchemy Index , went a step beyond "concept" and just played itself out naturally. Now, the So-Cal bandits [...]
I'm seeing Grizzly Bear Today! If you haven't already immersed yourself in their newest album, Veckatimest, you need to do that right now. I'm serious, this is no joke, Veckatimest is one of the better albums released this year. If you're already on the Grizzly-train and in the Bay area, you probably already have ticket to their Sunday and Monday shows at The Fillmore. It's going to be a special night. Oh and I'm hearing great things about the opening act, Here We Go Magic . So show up early. If you're not [...]
The first half of 2009 has brought us a recession, due to people trying to live beyond their means, a pandemic, due to people living too close to those beyond their species and a slew of decent releases. Of those releases only one, Taking Back Sunday 's New Again , was apart the list of anticipated albums that I tacked on to the end of my Best Of 2008 review back in December. So, at this half way point, with some new information, let's take a look at a few albums that are going [...]
Thrice title new album "Beggars" The new Thrice album will be titled " Beggars " , look out for an October release date. They will be previewing some new songs on Warped Tour.
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Thrice's ambitious Alchemy Index is available on vinyl. Check out the photos at the Vinyl Collective... Photos: Thrice "Alchemy Index" box set (FINALLY!) » Vinyl Collective . Posted in 2008, 2009, albums, music, thrice Tagged: the alchemy index, vinyl, vinyl collective
With the weather still mildly cold, summer may seem a ways off, but Vans Warped Tour is getting ready to heat things up for its 15th anniversary year. The 46-date punk rock extravaganza officially begins June 26 in Pomona, California, but pre-sale tickets go on sale April 1st. Following the pre-sale on April 2nd, Warped is hosting its Kick Off Party featuring Adolescents , TSOL, Sing It Loud , TV/TV, and TAT at Hollywood's Key Club. For [...]
Nine Inch Nails , Jane's Addiction and Street Sweeper have released a 6-song EP for free download. It features previously unreleased music from all three artists. You can get it here . Regina Spektor is putting the finishing touches on her fifth LP, Far. In recording She worked with four different notable producers: David Kahne, Jacknife Lee, Mike Elizondo even guitarist Jeff Lynne from the band ELO. [...]
How do you find a band? You can scour the internet, looking for sound a-likes to your favorite bands, or bands with a lot of positive buzz. If you were in your sixties you could take recommendations from Rolling Stone where you could find out about hip young artists like Bruce Springsteen or U2. In the case of Sky Eats Airplane , I had a friend gush his brains out to me about how awesome they are. Hailing from Fort Worth and occupying a similar branch on the metalcore tree as [...]
:: From Vagrant: "Our manufacturer has just informed us that the Thrice vinyl box set of The Alchemy Index will NOT meet the expected March 10 street date." :: Lightspeed Champion is still keeping everyone up to date on progress in the studio . :: Grizzly Bear still hasn't leaked the high-quality version of that new, weird-named album that fans have been clamoring for, but the band will probably be playing some of the songs while on tour in May and June . :: [...]
Is Twitter the new Facebook (if Facebook was, in fact, the new MySpace)? MetalSucks isn't gonna wait to find out, and has now officially joined 2008 by signing up for Twitter (follow us!). In case you're over the age of 20 and not yet hip to Twitter, Twitter is a social networking site that's basically [...]
I found this awesome website the other day called Moshcam . It's a site that has a number of full length concerts available to watch for free. One of the best concerts available to watch is an epic performance by Thrice at the Metro Theatre. I have been listening to a lot of Thrice lately (mainly The Illusions of Safety and Identity Crisis)and I am amazed at their musicianship, they're really a talented group of guys. There are also performance by Strung Out, Streetlight Manifesto, Lagwagon, and the Gaslight anthem. This website may be old news [...]
SPIN exclusive: All-star rockers cover Beatles Members of Switchfoot, Underoath, Thrice , and Bayside covered the Beatles' " A Little Help from My Friends " on Sunday night at Orlando's House of Blues, watch the performance here , featuring Jon Foreman (Switchfoot), Aaron Gillespie (Underoath/The Almost), Dustin Kensrue (Thrice), Anthony Raneri (Bayside), Josh Moore, and Zach Williams. awesome
So, my official job on this site is to post articles about post-hardcore music, and it occurs to me, that whenever I'm asked about what kind of music I listen to and I say back, post hardcore, I'm generally met with a stupid look, and a huh? So with this post, I'm going to go ahead and explain, to the best of my limited ability, what post-hardcore is, and what the most influential modern post hardcore bands are. I say modern, and that's important, cause a large handful of douches out there are almost assuredly, cursing my name, [...]
:: Thrice have begun writing their next album. :: Carah Faye , formerly of Shiny Toy Guns has a new band called Versant . :: Polar Bear Club have signed to Bridge Nine records. :: The Mastodon countdown has finished. The brand new website announced the band's new album Crack The Skye will be released this spring. :: The first wave of South By Southwest bands have been announced . Buy your badges [...]
I'm not a huge fan of live albums. The only one I can remember liking was Blink 182's The Mark Tom and Travis Show (and half of that can be attributed to the hundreds of fart jokes Mark and Tom told between songs that I may or may not still find hilarious). However, I was excited to hear that post-rockers Thrice were releasing one before the end of 2008. Earlier in the year they released the third and fourth installments of their ambitious Alchemy Index EP project, so to hear that they were giving something else [...]
THE STILLS – OCEANS WILL RISE This album came completely out of left field. I hadn't even heard of The Stills before a friend loaned me Oceans Will Rise . The Canadian band pulled no punches with this album with their high intensity riffs and memorable lyrics. I've been loving this since I put it on. Being Here Buy album RA RA RIOT – THE RHUMB LINE The same friend who loaned me The Stills' Oceans Will Rise is [...]
Hailing from Irvine California, new millennium post-hardcore mainstays Thrice , have created a catalog of music ranging from fast riff driven rock to melodic art rock, all without missing a beat. It's that catalog that they put on display in their latest live double disc release. Recorded live in Anaheim at the House Of Blues, while on tour with Pelican and Circa Survive, Thrice rock their way through a set comprised mostly of songs off their latest release, the four EP set The Alchemy Index, while mixing in the older material that any Thrice fan will eat [...]
How cool does this sound?! One of the best releases of the year to be released in a great collectors set. I especially like the 103 colored vinyl.... Thrice The Alchemy Index VINYL BOX SET (PRE-ORDER) Format: Box Set $50.00 Description This item will ship on or before the release date of [...]
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