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by Jeff Barringer - Staff Writer & Photographer With the thick smoke and dim lighting setting the mood you could easily mistake Interpol as a band from Birmingham as their music makes Joy Division sound like a beach party. For 14 years this New York based post-punk revivalist band has been making heavy, fuzzy music that draws a respectable audience and on Thursday they brought their dark musical clouds to the Austin Music Hall. Paul Banks, head shorn of the long locks of previous years, provided the appropriate brooding frontman mystique as clouds of [...]

Here We Go Magic have announced that both Aroara and Caveman will be joining them on their upcoming North American Tour support the release of of "The January" EP. Aroara is a new project featuring Andrew from Broken Social Scene, along with vocalist Ariel Engle, a frequent collaborator in the BSS live show. North American Tour Dates 05.02.11 - San Francisco, CA - Rickshaw Shop $ 05.04.11 - Salt Lake City, UT - Urban Lounge $ 05.05.11 - Denver, CO - Larimer Lounge $ 05.06.11 [...]

Glasgow's Twin Atlantic has announced a European tour to support their new album "Free", a follow-up to 2009's critically lauded mini-album "Vivarium", which will be released digitally on May 3rd in the U.S. via Red Bull Records. After performances at SXSW last month, Twin Atlantic's UK/Europe starts April 27 in Belfast . Summer festival dates throughout the UK and Europe are lining up now, and the band is expected to be back in the U.S. for a tour this fall. Upcoming Twin Atlantic Tour Dates 4/27 Belfast, UK [...]

by Jeff Barringer - Staff Writer & Photographer Click here for the rest of the Bad Religion pictures.

by Jeff Barringer - Staff Writer & Photographer Click here for the rest of the Bad Religion pictures.

by Jeff Barringer - Staff Writer & Photographer For some gigs photographers ought to get combat pay. It's kind of tough to think about what your going to write when your dodging the boots coming over the barrier at a Rise Against concert, but at least this time we made it though our three songs before we had to bail on the pit. The last time I covered them we didn't even make it through the first song before getting ejected by a thoroughly flustered security team. Rise Against concerts are just like that, and you [...]

by Jeff Barringer - Staff Writer & Photographer Click here for the rest of the pictures of The Wellspring.

by Jeff Barringer - Staff Writer & Photographer Click here for the rest of the pictures of The Wellspring.

by Jeff Barringer - Staff Writer & Photographer Click here for the rest of the Ben Kweller pics.

by Jeff Barringer - Staff Writer & Photographer Click here for the rest of the Ben Kweller pics.

by Jeff Barringer - Staff Writer & Photographer To experience a set by Gogol Bordello must be a lot like getting like getting swept out to sea by the gypsy pirate version of the Black Eyed Peas. A whirling dervish of sight sound and movement that never stops for two straight hours, engulfs the audience, assimilates them, and turns them into an extension of the living, breathing mass of energy radiating from the stage. Formed in New York in 1999, the bands sound is a melange of flavors that includes the gypsy spices of [...]

by Jeff Barringer - Staff Writer & Photographer To experience a set by Gogol Bordello must be a lot like getting like getting swept out to sea by the gypsy pirate version of the Black Eyed Peas. A whirling dervish of sight sound and movement that never stops for two straight hours, engulfs the audience, assimilates them, and turns them into an extension of the living, breathing mass of energy radiating from the stage. Formed in New York in 1999, the bands sound is a melange of flavors that includes the gypsy spices of [...]

Chicago, IL based Rosaline will be joining the upcoming "Gnarlie Sheen Tour" with A Faylene Sky, As Artifacts, and American Mantra. The tour starts on April 26th in Chicago, IL winding through the Midwest and West coast of the U.S., before finishing on May 29th in St. Joseph, MO. The band recently released the music video for Model Ships off their 2010 debut "The Vitality Theory" from Good Fight Music. ROSALINE on 'THE GNARLIE SHEEN TOUR': April 26th - - Chicago, IL @ Reggies Rock Club April 29th - - Mountain [...]

by Jeff Barringer - Staff Writer & Photographer It was billed as a night with Coheed and Cambria and that's exactly what fans got when the band played 2 sets at their sold out show at Stubb's last night. The first set, a 45 minute acoustic performance, had fans singing along with co-founder and frontman Claudio Sanchez for the first song. Then the rest of the band took the stage and the crowd of die-hards sang along with the rest of the set as well. If any fans were singing [...]

by Jeff Barringer - Staff Writer & Photographer It was billed as a night with Coheed and Cambria and that's exactly what fans got when the band played 2 sets at their sold out show at Stubb's last night. The first set, a 45 minute acoustic performance, had fans singing along with co-founder and frontman Claudio Sanchez for the first song. Then the rest of the band took the stage and the crowd of die-hards sang along with the rest of the set as well. If any fans were singing [...]

Radical Dads featuring Members Of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah have announced their debut LP "Mega Rama" out June 14th on Uninhabitable Mansions. Founded in 2008 along the banks of the Gowanus Canal, Lindsay Baker sings and plays the guitar, Robbie Guertin (Clap Your Hands Say Yeah) sings and plays the drums and Chris Diken plays the guitar. The band released a self-titled EP in May 2009 and the Recklessness 7-inch in December 2010. Radical Dads' first full-length album, Mega Rama, is being released by Uninhabitable Mansions, an art collective [...]

by Jeff Barringer - Staff Writer & Photographer It's kind of hard to believe that this will be Guster's 20th year as a band, but the group started by friends who met during freshman orientation at Tuft's University in 1991 has the road miles to prove it and their well polished show at Stubb's BarBQ on Thursday is certainly a measure of their years of tour experience. With frontmen Adam Gardner and Ryan Miller swapping vocal duties and Brian "Thundergod" Rosenworcel keeping pace on percussion the band wheeled through a succession their of [...]

by Jeff Barringer - Staff Writer & Photographer It's kind of hard to believe that this will be Guster's 20th year as a band, but the group started by friends who met during freshman orientation at Tuft's University in 1991 has the road miles to prove it and their well polished show at Stubb's BarBQ on Thursday is certainly a measure of their years of tour experience. With frontmen Adam Gardner and Ryan Miller swapping vocal duties and Brian "Thundergod" Rosenworcel keeping pace on percussion the band wheeled through a succession their of [...]

After having the gear stolen from their van Wisconsin based Lazarus A.D. still managed to complete their very first European tour and have jumped right back on the road opening for Max Cavalera and the Cavalera Conspiracy. With a short tour that hits both coasts and still manages a stop in Iowa, the band is touring to support their latest release "Black Rivers Flow". LAZARUS A.D. TOUR DATES W/ CAVALERA CONSPIRACY: 4/28 West Hollywood, CA @ House of Blues 4/29 Anaheim, CA @ House of Blues 4/30 San Francisco, CA @ [...]

Tampa, FL natives Not Tonight Josephine will be launching their "All on the Horizon Tour", which will see the band tour across the Eastern portion of the U.S. this spring. Touring to support their new album "All on the Horizon" releasing on April 26th, 2011, the album is the band's follow up to their 2009 EP, "This Orphan Heart". NOT TONIGHT JOSEPHINE 'ALL ON THE HORIZON TOUR' DATES: 4/24 Tampa, FL @ Beef O' Brady's for tour kickoff party, Presented by USF Student Union 4/29 Savannah, GA @ Sweetwater Bar [...]