Released earlier this year by Reaper Records, "No Remorse" is the debut 7" from Richmond, VA's Naysayer, offering up six tracks/13 minutes of pissed off, no bullshit metallic hardcore with loads of badass midpaced grooves and a really bitter sneer to the vocals that helps give the band a slightly ...
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Trapped Under Ice , Cruel Hand , Maximum Penalty , Forfeit and Naysayer will tour together in early 2010.
The Mass Industry Committee ( MIC ) doesn't mind that throwing Boston music award shows is more thankless than drumming. Nor do they anguish over criticism that their first two MIC Awards played favorites. A few weeks ago, committee organizers voted to ignore naysayer player haters and announced plans for a third gala in four years. "This year we're doing more of a people's choice type of award show," according to MIC spokesman Daneja, who says the ceremony will soon return to John Hancock Hall in Back Bay with added dimensions. "This [...]
In 2006 Brampton's Moneen took a huge step forward with the release of The Red Tree. The album found the band finally cashing in on all the potential critics and fans had been boasting and trumpeting for years. The songs were rich and deep, and knew when to rock and when slow it down. With the possibility of their potential having finally been reached, Moneen took their time, three years of their time crafting their Follow up to The Red Tree. Now, with the release of The World I Want To Leave Behind, [...]
Posted after CMU and DiS, this hardly seems worth a mention, but I've picked up a couple for one of their London dates, an impulse buy that I'm already regretting, and that will probably have to be sold on in due course. Should I be unable to eke out a small profit from that, well, I'll just have to go to the show. It's in the Irish pub they used to film the pub scenes in Spaced, anyway. That place must be some kind of late 1990's geek Mecca. The odd messageboard naysayer has been knocking the tour as a [...]
So apparently, the music labels don't really like it when you just buy singles. I'm not sure whether Apple actually cares that much as I was always under the impression that they just keep the iTunes store around as a means to sell iPods. Be that as it may, Apple is about to make a new digital album format, codenamed "Cocktail", the next must have product for teens and tweens everywhere. (It was confirmed today that Apple's annual music event will take place on September 9, 2009 .) [...]
The Naysayer: My Liver Needs a Lawyer [ Purchase ] The Naysayer is the music of Anna Padgett. She makes folk/country music and most of her work has a great sense of humor, as seen in this track which is take on all the classic country songs about drinking problems.
To the pun-happy indie pundits: Wavves is not washed up. The beach-punk, Pitchfork induced "buzzband" that is Nathan Williams (aka Wavves) has long since survived his epic melt-down at Barcelona's Primavera music festival in late May. A "cocktail of ecstasy and Valium" would make any budding 22-year-old rocker go loopy, but if you thought flying beers and stray shoes could destroy someone who is naturally self-destructive, you have been mistaken. Sporting a cast from a skateboarding accident the weekend prior, Williams took the stage at July 15's Bowery Ballroom and performed, sober, broken-wristed, loud. [...]
Attention mashup fans! Do you like dance music? Indie? Pop? Rock? You can get it all right here! Naysayer & Gilsun are two Melbourne lads who have released a charming mixtape and have shot to popularity in the shortest time you can imagine. They've essentially been picked up as some the newest Streetparty regulars, the Melbourne indie/dance scene's answer to gigantic, faceless media conglomerates (in a good way, I mean!), and they're perfect for it, playing the right balance of well-known pop songs and the less-obscure, easily accessible nu-disco and club hits to [...]
Don't get too excited by the headline, folks; this actually sounds like bad news. I was disappointed when the line to The Boredoms was insanely long on 7/7/07, and when they just weren't slated to play the NYC show with 88 drummers on 8/8/08, yet it was still sort of billed a Boredoms show (the tradition was kept alive properly in Los Angeles). Now it looks like the 9/9/09 show may top the crappiness of the previous two experiences. Okay, okay, I know, I know. I shouldn't be a naysayer before details are announced. [...]
Surprise! PopWreckoning loves Kevin Devine . After catching his show at the Jackpot, that love has only grown. Not surprised? Need more proof of Kevin's awesomeness? Local Lawrence music legends The Get Up Kids apparently love Devine as well (GUK front man Matt Pryor took Devine on the road last fall ) and several members were spotted rocking out to the songwriter's set. If you're still needing persuasion to check out Devine, read on ahead for a more detailed description of why this guy has won our hearts at PopWreckoning. If at the end [...]
( Editor's note: We're from Cleveland. (James is in Chicago, but whatever.) We're tough. We're gritty. We roll up our sleeves at work, chew Red Man, drink whiskey and swear a lot. Other "music blogs" might have more flash and fancier jeans, but we will punch those dandies in the mouth if they roll into our neck of the woods. Why are we telling you this? No reason, but it justifies the rust belt-y picture above. In reality, we're lovers, not fighters, so the blogosphere is safe. However, to maintain some street-cred, we wouldn't mind testing our physical might against [...]
The initial lineup has been announced for the 4th annual This Is Hardcore Fest . The shows will take place at Starlight Ballroom/ Club Polaris in Philadelphia, PA on August 14th, 15th and 16th. The bill will feature Bane , Bitter End , Blacklisted , Cold World , Cruel Hand , Giving Chase , Have Heart , Hoods , Know the Score , Let Down , Pulling Teeth , Reach the Sky , Shipwreck , Suicide File , The [...]
by Black Bubblegum DOWNLOAD: Sick Of It All - "Take The Night Off" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Sick Of It All - "Borstal Breakout" (MP3, Sham 69 cover) DOWNLOAD: Sick Of It All - "Relentless" (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Sick Of It All - "Scratch The Surface" LIVE (MP3) Sammy Siegler of Rival Schools (and CIV) @ at Irving [...]
Opening up with the sloppiest guitar solo this side of Westing and Musket, Woods return announcing with Songs of Shame that they are trying to "fight for what its worth." Their fight is worth listening to. Even if you not heard their previous albums, the recent wave of lo-fi musicianship and albums has prepared listeners for impassioned, sloppy songs. That is if you are not put off by the lack of polish; guitars do not reach the notes you'd expect, the vocals are saying something, but the words aren't pushed forward through the mix. [...]
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There's something about Louisville that produces adventurous female songwriters who completely eschew traditional (i.e. bland) folk leanings for massive, beautiful soundscapes and experimental song structures. Perhaps it's the high grade weed that passes through here, who knows. Last week, you were introduced to the graceful Cheyenne Mize, who collaborated with Will Oldham on his Among the Gold EP. I suppose you could classify her and other similar artists as part of the New Weird America camp. But Tara Jane O'Neil , who recently relocated to Portland, is not new and not easy to pinpoint. She's a longstanding [...]
De lokale omroep Radio Gasterlan is bezig met een zeer bijzondere, danwel bizare recorpoging. De omroep waarvoor wil maarliefst 168 uur achtereen uitzenden (te beluisteren via de stream ), niks nieuws onder de zon natuurlijk, maar de muziek is wel bijzonder, er zullen namelijk louter uitvoeringen van de kerst traditional Stille Nacht uitgevoerd worden! Naast bekende Nederlanders en prominente Friezen zal ook ik twee uurtjes vullen (donderdag a.s. 18 december tussen 14.00 en 16.00 uur). Natuurlijk is het wel de bedoeling mijn eigen draai hieraan te geven en wel middels een [...]
Now, listen, I want you to understand that I am above listening to this record. Yet...even as I type out this long, mentally-overdue review and hope to god ("Hey, God!") I'm not accidentally ghetto blasting out Nine Inch Nail's "Head Like a Hole" into the quiet library where I sit typing, I still have some difficulty understanding why that wouldn't be the best idea. I like that the fluttery drum machine beats, the ever-present Roland 808 synths, the pseudo-African tinged beats (think George Bush in Africa) could have only been put down by a [...]
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