An extremely welcome surprise in 2011 was Reports From The Threshold Of Death, a throbbing, gauzy dream-rock record from Boston's Junius (read here). One shitty major magazine described Reports as the intersection of Neurosis and The Smiths, but a sharper listen reveals Deftones-sized hooks and melancholic majesty more akin to Loveless by My Bloody Valentine and [...]
1. Wild Flag , Wild Flag In a difficult era for unconceited, forthright rock, Wild Flag has seized an opportunity to act as a bantam foil to the wealth of snobbery that permeates almost every facet of modern alternative culture. In doing so, this infant group of alternative rock and riot grrrl veterans has also created something of an archetype for those who care not to weight marketability over substance or who simply want a balance of the two. Unlike bands who resign themselves to aping banal classic rock n' roll conventions (practically [...]
the holidays should be about family, friends and cheer. they're also a time where we give thanks to everything and everyone that has helped us along the path of our lives. booze and gifts are nice too. this is a playlist for you, dear reader. take it with you on your road trip to grandma's house or chill with it at home with a nice bottle of brandy. cigars are optional but highly suggested. Hail Santa - a together in digital dreams holiday mixtape
We realize that not everyone has the good fortune of living in the great state of Texas, but between SXSW, Chaos in Tejas, Rites of Darkness and Austin's anti-ACL, Fun Fun Fun Fest, we feel the Lone Star State has got the lock on kickass music festivals and and you're really missing out if you haven't made the trek down for at least one of them.If you're fortunate enough to make it to Austin this
Kenneth Thomas, in a tunnel. If you care about heavy music and still believe that art should trump commerce every time, you owe it to yourself to check out Blood, Sweat & Vinyl: DIY in the 21st Century. I've written about Kenneth Thomas's music documentary in these e-pages before. After watching the film a second [...]
I've read enough "Cry Now, Cry Later" columns in Decibel to know that if J. Bennett and I ever met we'd be instant besties, or more likely I'd wanna be instant besties and he'd be all "psshhh... get off my nuts, lowly blogger." Dude's writing makes me jealous on a regular basis, and he's got [...]
If the three bands name-checked in our headline aren't enough to pique your interest, that's not all: The Phoenix Born of Fire, Volume 1 compilation - put together by weekly New England arts mag The Boston Phoenix - also features free downloadable tracks from Ramming Speed (appearing at The Metal Suckfest!), Motherboar, Razormaze, Acaro, and [...]
One of the things that I love most about underground metal is that so many diehard fans fulfill so many roles within the metal community. A lot of the kids that you see at the grind show are also in bands. The dude rockin' out at the front might own a distro. That girl might [...]
At first, you may feel hostility to heavy rock bands like Lacuna Coil, but fuck that. You don't settle for the easiest, most immediate appraisal of stuff - especially stuff as nebulous as rock music. So after two more seconds of thought, you see that it's allegiance that we owe to Lacuna Coil and their [...]
83 mins : 22 secs | 47.7 mb Friendly Fires "Hawaiian Air" ( xl recordings ) Pala [ amazon ] website | myspace | facebook Digitalism "2 Hearts" ( co-operative music ) I Love You, Dude [ amazon ] website | myspace | facebook The New Division "Bucharest" ( independent release ) The Rookie [ amazon ] website | myspace | facebook [...]
Hydra Head, 2011 Though modern rock, by design, employs at least a moderate amount of teamwork between band members, true democracy in the post-2000 indie rock world tends to conspicuously defy the norm. In actual practice, you're much more likely to hear a band claim a collaborative spirit (The Strokes' most recent piecemeal effort, Angles , for instance) than you are to actually hear the sounds of multiple congruent songwriters so intrinsically-linked that every piece of music demands equal input from each party. That's part of the reason White Silence , a [...]
Butt rock reigns yet again, with Seether nabbing the top spot for the second week in a row. Boris and Cave In cracked the Top Hard Music charts with their new albums (hooray!), while Hollywood Undead and Asking Alexandria actually experienced sales gains for the first time since their new records debuted a few weeks [...]
The most recent album by Jane's Addiction, 20032s Strays, was a big-budget, big-production heavy rock record that kinda flopped despite its awesomeness. Since those distant days, Jane's members have flirted with a full reunion (momentarily counting longtime hold-out Eric Avery as a returned member), with ex-Guns N' Roses/current Velvet Revolver bassist Duff McKagen (he came [...]
We have just added over 100 new photos into our gallery. First up, our west coast photographer Aline has just posted photos from the Metal Alliance tour, which features sick snaps of Crowbar, Helmet, St. Vitus, Kylesa, Howl, Red Fang and The Atlas Moth. Check those out over here. Also, our NYC photog Nathaniel Shannon ...
Cave In's White Silence is definitely the most anticipated release of the week, but new albums from Book of Black Earth, In Solitude, Inevitable End and two new ones from Boris make this a week to look forward to. Vic Vaughn goes at each one after the jump. Acephalix – Interminable Night (Southern Lord) Crust [...]
This week's biggest releases, of course, are the new David Bazan and Cave In (who I finally saw Saturday at Krazy Fest). What badass records! On top of that, there's stuff from Boris . We've also got some vinyl singles from Against Me! (who I saw Friday at Krazy Fest) and Battles . Other than that, I just see a handful of things that I'm sort of interested in, but not interested enough to mention. Also, I officially like Let's Wrestle now, since everyone told me [...]
It's almost Friday~! Who else is ready to party all weekend long? Here are a few tunes to hold you over for now... A few days ago IWRESTLEDABEARONCE released a fake press release announcing a new black metal sound that should be expected on the band's album. They even released new promo photos of them ...
In 2001 I went to the now-defunct NYC venue Brownie's to catch Cave In, who I'd recently discovered, and ended up catching Old Man Gloom and Scissorfight in the process. The way I viewed heavy music was forever altered, the show a railroad switch that sent my descent into the gnarlier side of metal over [...]
We're just on another Cave In binge so we thought we'd write about the new album. You might not know. You may not have heard the new song, Sing My Loves either.
Boston's Cave In just released a single from their new album called White Silence (Hydra Head Records) called "Sing My Loves" the track has all the Cave In staples; space rock, hardcore metallic grooves and combination of barked and sung vocals. The new album will drop on May 24th and pre orders are availble here .
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