Artist: Warsaw

Last night, after spending the day drinking awful Heineken under a tent, I walked over to the Warsaw to see if I could get into the Black Flag show. I ended up with a premium Northside Festival badge but I had no idea if that would get me in or not. We got there a little after the doors opened, talked to some people and managed to get in. Apparently something like 75 badge holders are let in so

Black Flag (aka Ginn/Reyes) have added ANOTHER show at Warsaw on June 15 , one day after their previously discussed show at the same venue which is now sold-out. Tickets for the just-added show go on sale at 10AM tomorrow (3/2). So far no word on that threatened " US tour ," but we'll keep you posted. Meanhwile, FLAG , the other Black Flag lineup, was recently announced as part of Orion 2013 as well as Punk Rock [...]

Chloe Martin- Shouldn’t Care Immaculate beats straight outta Warsaw. Download this beautiful track here .

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Tsugi Podcast 272 - The Same The Same is a Warsaw outfit formed by Tymoteusz Cypla and Sebastian [...]

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Piotr Kurek's keyboard and organ driven composition "Becoming Light" is a fantastic and fully realized piece of music. Its as if Philip Glass traveled back in time to jam with The Doors' Ray Manzarek because our ears are treated to bouncing lines of particle hopping keys rolling along to build a firm foundation for a classic organ lead line. This is beautiful stuff. Then of course there's the video which captures the vibe of the music as well as any visual married to music can. Color and motion are important here. Blooming flowers, [...]

Fucked Up has all the ingredients to make a great band— mystery, mythology, that insignia , a theatrical boisterous singer—but that would all mean nothing if the music was no good. Thankfully Fucked Up don’t disappoint, and last night at Brooklyn’s Warsaw was no different. The music is a wall of guitars and roars that envelopes you. The bandmates make up for the lack of layered sophistication from the recordings in bravado, energy, and devotion to thrash the hell out of whatever town they’re passing through. Things started epic and then got louder. A [...]

I love how Iceage is referred to as straight up "punk" as opposed to "post-punk" in most references. I assume it's due to the rowdiness and wild reputation of its live shows more so than the dark, minimalistic music it produces. But any band that steals its name and sense of sonics from Joy Division's earliest Warsaw days has a de facto soft spot in my heart. The band will follow up its brilliant debut, New Brigade , this coming February via Matador . The new album is called You're Nothing and was recorded [...]

All photography by Marcos Dominguez González It was Sharon Van Etten 's first time in Madrid on Thursday, though by her presence on stage it seemed like she might have been lifelong friends with those in attendance. Despite the show starting forty-five minutes after it had been scheduled to - there was a personal apology from the singer during the set - Van Etten and her (excellent) backing band more than made up for it, giving the audience a thrilling hour and fifteen minutes in which [...]

Horrified by Repulsion " Repulsion were an early grindcore / death metal band from Flint, Michigan. Their innovations were significant to the development of the death metal and grindcore genres...By 1986 Repulsion's trademark style had matured; characterised by raspy shouted vocals, extremely distorted down-tuned guitars, overdriven punkish riffs, absurd rambling solos interjected as if only as an afterthought, rumbling bass lines, and machine-gun drumming. Repulsion was experimenting with a hammering, static clouded, lo-fi sound that was on a level of extreme that had been touched on by few bands before. To complement the band's sound they [...]

Portland hardcore stalwarts Poison Idea are the beast that will never die. While guitarist “Pig Champion” died in 2006 and one-time drummer Steve "Thee Slayer Hippy" Hanford was arrested for a string of pharmacy robberies in 2008, the band continues to soldier on under the leadership of vocalist Jerry A. Poison Idea made their recorded debut in 1983 with “Pick Your King”, a 7” (which was issued with a two-sided cover showing Elvis on one side and Jesus on the other) that blasts through thirteen song of hardcore fury in sixteen minutes. As part of Southern Lord’s reissue [...]

Or, There's Always Been A Dance Element To Our Music . Post Stone Roses, everyone in 1990 had sacked their rock drummer, got themselves a loose-limbed octopus who could replicate Clyde Stubblefield 's funkier moments from James Brown's Greatest Hits and began making records that folk in outdated quiffs could sorta shuffle around to in a faux-druggy state. I know, because I was one of those shuffling folk with outdated quiff. Two months later and it had been fashioned into a Paul McCartney '65 classic, but when the first strains of the Paris Angels or Northside or Flowered [...]

Coming To A Little Festival in North Webster, Indiana Couple years back we screened our feature film Welcome to Gentle Waters in our favorite summertime haunt for Dixie Days. We are back this year with the Chicago Comedy Film Festival....

A Unique Geographical and Enivromental Space We spend much of our summer on the lakes of Noble, Whitley and Kosciusko counties in Indiana. For both recreation and artistic pursuits we have always found the area a refuge and muse. We...

Here's the thing about lists. Just when you think you've completed one, and you've sent it out into the world, you start to remember all of the things you left off of it. Here are 10 more songs I love about places I love or would love to visit one day. "On a Bus to St. Cloud" Trisha Yearwood She's actually referring to St. Cloud, Minnesota, but I like to pretend she's singing about the one in Florida, where I graduated from high school. [...]

A-Trak goes Robot Rock routine @ Miasto Cypel, Warsaw 11.05.2012 Recorded at Miasto Cypel opening night in Warsaw on 11th May 2012 Sorry for poor sound quality of the beginning part.

9 years ago tonight I saw Godspeed You! Black Emperor (again!) at the Warsaw in Brooklyn. Jackie-o Motherfucker opened. Although the setlist wasn't as good as the first night of the band's two-night stay at the club, it did include a great rendition of "The Dead Flag Blues (outro)". During the encore, members of the [...]

• Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Dead Flag Blues outro

Wriggling over to Rough Trade like a snake fresh off a plane , Sharon Van Etten dozily scribbles an autograph or two, still patently enwrapped in a thick fug of jetlag. Her guitar equally discomposed by the shift in timezone, although it dips in and out of tune with fanciful perfection during her succinct set that's coaxed exclusively from magnum opus Tramp (it hangs off nigh on every record rack here) she is, this evening, consummately supreme. Wilting buds entrapped in the headstock of her Jaguar, Van Etten is but blossoming and it's a crude yet vivid joy [...]

Tweet Sometimes an album catches you a bit off-guard. Sometimes every second track on an album catches you off-guard. That's certainly what happened with me on listening to Silver Tongues ' "Black Kite" , but it's cool: I like surprises. Things get off to a great start with the album opener, "Highways" . I can't be the only person who hears that big, two-chord drone and thundering percussion (read foot-stomping and hand-clapping) and thinks of Joy [...]

[Photos courtesy of Jon Melnick. See his Flickr stream [ HERE ]] Music is passion.  Music is anger.  Music is triumph.  Music is sorrow.  Music is love.  Somehow a Fucked Up show manages to incorporate them all.  To love Fucked Up is to understand the wonder and beauty of the clean, rising chords of "Let Her Rest", the multilayered, joyous dueling-guitar attack of "Running On Nothing", and the gravel-scrubbed squall of incomparable frontman Damian "Pink Eyes" Abraham's vocals.  What makes sense about a Toronto band with an absolutely crack rhythm section, who puts out double-LP rock [...]

DOWNLOAD: Marvelous Darlings - "I Don't Wanna Go To The Party" Ben Cook with Fucked Up at House of Vans ( more by Chris La Putt ) Pink Eye took to the [Brooklyn stage with his child on his shoulders before ripping through the recent opus David Comes to Life in its entirety. The energy comprised by this band is nearly unmatched by most other acts today. Aggressive vocals, lightning drumming, and shredding guitar blasts make up the concept masterpiece that unfolded live before [...]

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