Video: Interview with Paul Collins and The Beat

Flogging Molly - more photos... photo by John Hargraft - staff photographer by john hargraft - clubkingsnake staff Flogging Molly Hometown: Los Angeles, California http://www.floggingmolly.com/ Flogging Molly Concert Photos Monday February 18, 2008 The Kool Haus (Toronto, Ontario) Flogging Molly is a septet out of L.A playing an Irish folk/punk rock blend. With a touch of the Pogues, the Clash and perhaps [...]

Rody Walker of Protest The Hero - more photos... photo by Clint Gilders - staff photographer by clint gilders - clubkingsnake staff Protest The Hero Hometown: Whitby, Ontario, Canada http://www.myspace.com/protest thehero Protest The Hero Concert Photos Friday February 8, 2008 The Kool Haus (Toronto, Ontario) There's not much I can say about protest live that hasn't been said here and here [...]

Pinhead Gunpowder Hometown: San Francisco, CA Website: http://www.pinheadgunpowder.co m/ Sunday/Monday, February 3-4, 2008 Chain Reaction (Anaheim, CA), The Troubadour (Hollywood, CA) Opening act: This is My Fist All I can say is, wow! Pinhead Gunpowder at two small clubs in Southern California. Let me explain. Pinhead Gunpowder is kind of like the equivalent of Velvet Revolver to the punk scene. Kind of a punk super group if that exists. Let me explain further. Pinhead Gunpowder is [...]

Tom Morello at SXSW 2007 - more photos... photo by clint gilders - staff photographer In case you missed it, over the past couple days SXSW has listed a few more artists for this years music festival. Van Morrison will be playing a SXSW gig at La Zona Rosa in addition to his non-SXSW gig at the Austin Music Hall. Legendary punk band X will also be performing over at Emo's. For all those doubting Thomas's and those that overlooked the fine print, there [...]

If you're asking yourself why this review is a comparison between these two awesome bands, understand that this is not exactly the type of metal I listen to. But these solid releases have dominated my stereo for weeks, and I keep thinking these two together would be a hell of a show. Their music tracks a very natural progression of classic metal becoming more extreme. Being a death/black/ thrash metal head, it took me a few listens to get used to these "real" vocalists who actually sing. Once I got past that, I have to admit [...]

In what will probably be another blow to SXSW's headliner list, Dolly Parton has announced that she is postponing her tour scheduled to start on February 28th in Minneapolis. Parton will be rescheduling her dates in April and May, which would preclude her appearance at SXSW this year, though that has not been specifically stated. On her web site , Dolly attributes the postponement due to a back condition "hey, you try wagging these puppies around a while and see if you don't have back problems". That means the Saturday night slot at the Austin Music Hall will be [...]

Tokyo Police Club photo by clint gilders - staff photographer I could hardly believe my eyes as I perused the SXSW 2008 Biglist . Yeah, there are cool bands coming from all over the world, but the 100+ acts making the pilgrimage from Canada set my mouth watering. There are some real heavy hitters making their way south. Uber-producer and singer/songwirter Daniel Lanois , Alt-Country-Rock giants Blue Rodeo , Toronto indie institution Constantines , Dallas Green's City [...]

The Blacklist at SXSW 2007 - more photos... photo by Jeff Barringer - staff photographer SXSW made their big list announcement today as expected, with a whopping 1594 bands in all, surpassing the band count at ACL Fest, Bonaroo, Coachella, Jazz Fest, and Langerado combined. There are at least 20 bands alone with the word "Black" in their name. Think about it, almost 1600 artists and bands, all looking for a place to park the van at once. So many bands that musicians [...]

SXSW 2007 Interview w/Paul Collins and The Beat We are only days away from the official band announcements from SXSW and we are still hearing about gigs left and right. This will probably be my last post to the "unofficial" list for 2008. The guys over at Showburner confirmed my Adele rumor as well as digging up confirmations for The Wombats, The Bug, Captain Bliss, and a handful more. Also, PaisleyUmbrella dropped me a note to confirm a few other bands. Her(?) list includes Austin's [...]

Chris Robinson of The Black Crowes - more photos... photo by Jeff Barringer - staff photographer As reported here , first, The Black Crowes have canceled their SXSW appearance. As confirmed by Austin American Statesman writer Joe Gross . According to the Gross's the bands publicist confirmed "There has been a change of schedule and the group will not be performing there this year". What an unfortunate turn of events as the Saturday show at Stubb's was [...]

I spent a little bit of time updating the SXSW 2008 band list today and we now have over 670 bands and artists listed as confirmed so far. I will continue to update the list until SXSW publishes the official list/schedule, then I will hand the reins over to them and focus on doing SXSW artist spotlight interviews. Last year we interviewed a whole bunch of neat SXSW performers like Hugh Cornwell, The Zico Chain, Dirty Wormz, Paul Collins, Peter Case, Blacklist and more. This year we have already done a podcast spotlight with Broken Teeth and next on the [...]

Velvet Revolver at Stubb's - more photos... photo by Jeff Barringer - staff photographer Velvet Revolver brought their tour buses to town and parked them at Stubb's last night for a smoking hot set, or was it? Raoul Hernandez over at The Chronicle is doing more than suggesting that Velvet Revolver frontman Scott Weiland had a little help from performance enhancing electronics to get through the set. I was there and can attest to a very variable sound, to the man with the [...]

Finally..... It's finally here. After expected release dates in August 2007, and then September and November Fortress is set for release on Jan 29, 2008. I promise. How exactly does one follow-up something as genre defining/defying as 2006's Kezia ? From the first dissonant bleats of "Bloodmeat" you know PTH has not strayed far from what made their debut album a masterpiece. Songs shoehorned together by an ADHD sufferer performed by idiot savants with mind numbing musical prowess. Over [...]

Robin Trower at La Zona Rosa - more photos... photo by Jeff Barringer - staff photographer If it wasn't for Austin's anti-smoking ordinance tonight could have been 1974 all over again as Austin's Van Wilks and the legendary Robin Trower (founding member of Procol Harum) burned down the house at Austin's La Zona Rosa. During Trower's roaring 20+ minute epic "Bridge of Sighs", all that was missing was the roiling clouds of stale, cheap, pot smoke wafting onstage. Don't let Robin's age fool you, his fingers are as [...]

Arif Mirabdolbaghi of Protest The Hero - more photos... photo by clint gilders - staff photographer Protest The Hero Genre: thrash/progressive/metal Hometown: Whitby, Ontario http://www.myspace.com/protest thehero Saturday, March 8 8:00 p.m. w/ Silverstein, Devil Wears Prada, A Day to Remember Emo's (Main Stage) (6TH AND RED RIVER) One of the loudest bands I have ever heard, Canada's Protest The Hero has [...]

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The Drive home from Toronto on Dec, 16th, 2007 photo by clint gilders - staff photographer The Drive home from Toronto on Dec, 16th, 2007 photo by clint gilders - staff photographer If you were among the few brave souls who made it to the Alexisonfire show in Toronto on December 16th, well guess what? You don't get to come on Friday!! Those who wussed out and didn't make it to the Arrow Hall during [...]

Jason McMaster of Broken Teeth - more photos... photo by jeff barringer - staff photographer Broken Teeth Genre: Rock / Rock / Rock Hometown: Austin, Tx http://www.myspace.com/brokent eeth Saturday, March 15 10:00 p.m. Headhunters (patio) (8TH AND RED RIVER) (subject to change) Longtime Austin resident Jason McMaster, frontman for hard rocking locals Broken Teeth, spent time with us [...]

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Alex Lifeson of Rush at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater San Antonio 2002 photo courtesy Gary Miller - contributing photographer As expected Canadian rockers Rush have confirmed an Austin date on their spring tour at UT's Frank Erwin Center. Continuing with last years "Snakes & Arrows World Tour", they will stop in Austin on April 23rd, one of 45 tour stops announced so far. Touring in support of the soon to be released Snakes & Arrows Live CD, Rush's track "Malignant Narcissism" from the band's 2007 release Snakes & [...]

Our list of bands and artists scheduled to perform at Austin's 2008 SXSW Music Festival has zoomed past the 400 mark all the way up to more than 540 confirmed so far, slightly more than 1/3 of the acts that are supposed to perform. The list includes a seemingly endless number of DJs and MCs, as well as a huge quantity of singer/songwriters. Click here to see the latest SXSW 2008 Rumored and Confirmed Band List . One singer/songwriter whose name has not appeared on the confirmed list but has unexpectedly burst onto the rumor list [...]

As I Lay Dying at La Zona Rosa - more photos... photo by Jeff Barringer - staff photographer I took a break Tuesday night to let the LCD screen burn in my retinas reset. Vince over at Metal Blade Records invited me out to check out a couple of his bands playing down at La Zona Rosa. Evergreen Terrace and As I Lay Dying and they tore it up at La Zona Rosa. The band requested no barrier and no security and the show turned into a free [...]