Make no bones about it -- the Gaslight Anthem comparisons that Red Collar receive are not without merit. They both have their Springsteen leanings, writing songs about times gone by, with a certain wisp of nostalgia about them. However, I'd argue that Red Collar's Welcome Home LP on Tiny Engines ...
Fag Cop's releasing Whimpers From the Pantheon Volume II sometime later this summer. It's essentially the U.S. release of Whimpers From the Pantheon, which came out earlier this year on Rank Toy. Based on the track listing, it looks like it has tracks from the Rank Toy release, as well as ...
Originally due out June 5, Chock Full of Misery -- New Bruises' first album since their 2006 debut, Transmit! Transmit! -- has finally seen release on Kiss of Death and No Idea. One could argue that the delay was due to some of the fantastic stuff band member Byron Lippincott ...
Always always always open e-mails from bands that are in poorly-translated English. Any time a subject line is in all caps and features what might be described as an excessive number of exclamation marks, you're off to a good start. If you have to scroll through the message to get ...
Open publication - Free publishing The series Modern Masters -- "Celebrating the lives and work of today’s greatest comics artists" -- has covered George Perez, Bruce Timm, Frank Cho, and Mike Allred, to name but a few of the comics luminaries. However, the Nuthouse's favorite scribbler, Eric Powell, might be the ...
Recorded the podcast while things were exploding and making noise outside, after a lengthy day of sleeping in my basement. Holidays are a hard time, when your house has people in it during the day. Strange things, that -- I'm used to there not being anyone home during the day, ...
I'm usually a little skittish about one-man band blues stuff, especially on Voodoo Rhythm. Sometimes you get psychotic weirdness that's wonderful, a la the Reverend Beat Man. Often, you get off-key, white boy blues like Delaney Davidson. It's this lack of assurance that gives me pause every time I push ...
Garage rockers the Enthusiasts just got done with a big batch of new recordings, and they've shared one with us, so that we might share it with you. The track's called "A Better Lover," and it's little more raucous, a little more amped than the "Sinkin/Risin" EP, and a whole ...
Nights Like These, the second long-player from Michigan's the McFlys, is a pretty good slab of pop-punk. They claim to exist as part of the genre's "golden era," and you can definitely hear elements of Squirtgun, the Teen Idols, and so on in their music. The songs are short, three-chord ...
The debut release from French psych-pop act Melody's Echo Chamber, a split on Fat Possum with Unknown Mortal Orchestra, won't see release for another three weeks, but you can pre-order the 7-inch right now. On the 7-inch, Melody's Echo Chamber brings their track "Crystallized," which has been heretofore unavailable in any ...
Former member of Screeching Weasel, the Lillingtons, Even In Blackouts, et al, John "Jughead" Pierson, started a blog last month called Memories of a Jughead, and you really ought to start reading while it's new. There's not a lot of stories up there, but the ones there are detailed, insightful, ...
Stomping drums and handclaps seem to be the rhythmic style of the summer. Good. It's fucking miserable out there, and anything fast is just going to wear me the fuck out. I've been needing more stuff like the Mynabirds' "Generals, and this debut 7-inch from Blood Buddies on Razorcake Records ...
Black Wine's new album, Hollow Earth, doesn't come out on Don Giovanni until next Tuesday, but you can stream it right now. Which you should do. They're less abrasive than Hunchback was, but not as poppy as the Ergs, either. They're this happy medium somewhere in the middle, and Black ...
"Peek-a-boo, you're dooooooooooooooooomed!" One of the snottiest records this side of the Dead Boys, the Criminals' Never Been Caught was released by Lookout back in 1997. While never quite reaching the heights of popularity seen by other acts of the label, Jesse Luscious and company knew how to play rock 'n' ...
If you've slept on getting Toxic Waste, the split from Municipal Waste and Toxic Holocaust on Tankcrimes, fear not! While the first pressing on picture disc and glow in the dark vinyl sold out in record time, the second pressing of 1000 is now available in 200 on striped, 350 ...
I've not talked about the Hellshovel album that Slovenly put out last month. This is a shame, but it's just that there's so much going on with Hated By The Sun that I can't possibly describe it. The LP is the auditory equivalent of trying to think after a massive ...
Could Big Eyes write a bad song if they tried? I doubt it. Their Hard Life LP was one of my favorite records of last year, and the two singles preceding it were equally stunning. And now, with the "Back From the Moon" b/w "I Don't Care About Friday Night" ...
Much like Jay Reatard stepping away from the Reatards, Andrew Anderson of the Hipshakes' solo work is stripped down to bare bones. The music he makes as Proto Idiot is the same lo-fi recording techniques as used by the Hipshakes. It sounds like it's one mic placed in the middle ...
In the new book The Philosophy of Horror, from University Press of Kentucky, editor Mark T. Conard gathers a diverse selection of essays. The diversity springs from the fact that many of the authors step outside the traditional concept of horror and redefine what it means. Much of the time, ...
The Ataris have a new album, The Graveyard of the Atlantic, due out this fall on Paper + Plastick. In order to hold you over until then, the label's got a free acoustic album from Ataris frontman Kristopher Roe available for download. Says the press release of the album, entitled ...
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