The term "Superjam" can get thrown around a bit around here, but the minute I glanced at the listing of local players gathering around Luther Dickinson's 3-Night residency at the Maple Leaf Bar, it was apparent that some Jazz Fest After Dark-quality improvisational jam sessions were going to transpire in the familiar and friendly confines [...]
Hyro Da Hero is heavy enough for us to feature him on Thrash Hits, right? That's a rhetorical question, by the way. It wasn't a request for people to go debate it in the comments or anything. Anyway, he's got the more-than-excellent Marmozets playing in support of him on his UK tour, and given that we've expressed our love of that band on more than one occasion , we figured this was more than enough reason to make sure Gary Wolstenholme was on hand to photograph the whole shebang [...]
Anticipation has been high for Lotus to return to Colorado since their memorable Fourth of July show at Red Rocks. The band came back with a bang, bringing a stellar performance to one of downtown Denver's largest indoor venues, The Fillmore. With a big crowd came a lot of energy that the five part ensemble [...]
++Photo Gallery: James Mercer (of The Shins) at 98.7 Hollywood Tower++ Live on February 7, 2011 Photos by Jasmine Safaeian for The Scenestar
Thanks to Steven Hatley for contributing this review. For the first time in over a year, James Hall was back in town to play Carrollton Station with longtime friend and collaborator Michael Blum who supplied support on lap steel. Opening the night was Blum's newest project, Mystery Girl (Josh Katz - Lead Vocals, Mike Blum [...]
It's finally here! Our massive photo collection from the 70,000 Tons of Metal cruise. Check it out. We made sure to include plenty of photos of Noa for your viewing pleasure, cause we're pervs! Also, don't miss our full report from the cruise, as well as bands talking about their favorite parts of the cruise ...
We've said it before, and we'll say it again - as far as touring line-ups go, the combination of Mastodon, The Dillinger Escape Plan and Red Fang has set the bar for 2012. Given that Mastodon put out the Thrash Hits Album of 2011 , The Dillinger Escape Plan put out the Thrash Hits album of 2010 , and Red Fang are one of our favourite up'n'coming crushers, it's gonna take one heck of a tour to top this. When the tour arrived in Manchester, our man [...]
Words by Carly Shields / Photos by Nick Irving Big band Brooklynites Rubblebucket sold out the Bowery Ballroom this past Saturday night, and though they haven't quite broken into the mainstream scene, their constant touring schedule and years of festival appearances make them a pretty well known name in every scene they fit with. From [...]
Swedish folk singer-songwriter Sofia Talvik is currently on a busy tour of the South that is currently parked in New Orleans for a couple shows this weekend, starting with a set at Chickie Wah-Wahlast night. Tomorrow night, Talvik will be appearing at Neutral Ground Coffeehouse tomorrow night for those who missed the first show. Photographer [...]

Photos from the first of two sold out First Aid Kit shows (on the same evening!) at Stockholm's famous Debaser Medis venue. Making a guest appearance on vocals was Adam Olenius of the Shout Out Louds and Serenades . Photos by Victor Lundmark
Continue below for a photo gallery from the show || All photos by Jimmy Grotting Local guitar hero and songwriter Anders Osborne has been out on the road with GRAMMY-winning blues guitarist Keb' Mo' for a two-week winter run, ending (for Osborne) in his howetown for a Sunday night set at House of Blues. There's [...]

Photos by Jason Williamson
$8?! Deal of the Month. The combined age of the two last bands featured at WTUL's Back To School Bash at Tipitina's would make them barely old enough to walk and somewhere deep into the Terrible Two's. Having not heard of Gold and the Rush until yesterday afternoon, I was completely in the dark as [...]
Thanks to Steven Hatley for contributing his first review to the site Saturday night brought together two very different acts to Tipitinas Uptown, featuring a bill of Nurses and The Mountain Goats. It was clear by the midpoint of the Nurses set who the sizable crowd really came to see. Nurses put on a solid [...]
It seems that we can't get enough of The Black Dahlia Murder and Skeletonwitch's UK tour. Not only did about half our writing staff pile into the Camden Underworld when the tour hit London , but our photographer in chief, Gary Wolstenholme , was on hand to snap it when the tour arrived in his native Sheffield. His sexy, sexy pictures are just after the jump. -- The Black Dahlia Murder @ Sheffield Corporation - 19 January 2012 [...]

This time around we had Moombah+'s Tony Forn take photos. Check out their constantly updated site and catch their radio broadcast at moombaplus.com . Come out this Thursday and be part of the fun! Event Info
"a genuine, word-of-mouth, go-see-them-then-tell-10-frien ds-how-amazing-they-are thing" – NME || Continue on to the bottom for a photo gallery courtesy of Jimmy Grotting and Joshua Brasted Alabama Shakes roared into the conversation as a major breakthrough artist of 2011 via an early endorsement/introduction by Thursday's show promoters and influential music blog Aquarium Drunkard. This first nudge in [...]