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Dave Pirnier (Soul Asylum – vocals)
SPB: Who is your favorite musician you’ve discovered in New Orleans?
Pirnier: Henry Butler first comes to mind. I saw him for the first time at the Funky Butt and he was playing the midnight to 4am slot. Seeing that he is …
San Jose, CA-based Deathgrave will drop their debut LP on June 22 on Tankcrimes. Titled So Real, It's Now, the group features familiar faces from Brainoil, Amber Asylum and more.
They originally formed in 2013 with the intention to play grindcore/powerviolence in the style of Iron Lung, Insect …
English Beat are touring the US this summer, joined on various dates by Soul Asylum, B-52s, Culture Club, Squeeze, and UB40.
Dates and supporting acts are listed below accordingly.
Soul Glo has a new album on the way, sharing the new single "PPL Worried" this week, a track featuring Tunde Adebimpe (TV On The Radio).
Formed in Philadelphia, PA in 2014, the band last released Diaspora Problems in 2022. They head on the road with Chat Pile soon, …
Zulu and Soul Glo will embark on a co-headlining tour this fall, joined by Playytime.
Zulu released A New Tomorrow in March (Flatspot Records), whereas Soul Glo released Diaspora Problems in 2022 (Epitaph).
In a statement, Soul Glo vocalist Pierce Jordan says:
The friendship between Zulu …
Philly hardcore experimental extremists Soul Glo share new single “If I Speak (Shut The Fuck Up)”, the band’s first new music since 2022’s album, Diaspora Problems. The song arrives ahead of their co-headlining tour with Los Angeles band Zulu that kicked off in Denver, CO.
Diving into thrash-leaning hardcore …
Soul Glo recently visited NPR Music for it's "NPR Tiny Desk Session" series, sharing a 15-minute live clip of the band, who last released Diaspora Problems in 2022 (Epitaph).
The band has been busy on the road since, including an upcoming jaunt with Mannquin Pussy.
Watch the set …
A new biographical book about De La Soul will publish on July 11, coming from author Dave Heaton and available through J-Card Press. Heaton writes with PopMatters and The Big Takeover. The book is simply titled De La Soul and will be available via online book sellers, including J-Card directly.
Hardcore likes to recycle and reinvent itself about every decade, so yup, 90's hardcore is back. Soul Control sounds like every great 108 riff jammed into every wonderful Quicksand back beat. You know I just love this. Heavy melodic groove orientated hardcore done masterfully. The best thing is when hardcore …
Soul (noun) : A sense of ethnic pride among Black people and especially African Americans, expressed in areas such as language, social customs, religion, and music.
relevant (adjective) : Connected with or saying something important about what is being spoken about or discussed It's been twenty years since the release …
In another of SPB's regular features, here's a guest column by New England-based rocker JJ Rassler. JJ covers record collecting, country music, bizarro taxi rides in Nashville and "Florida Bill". Read on for more from JJ.
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About 20 years ago, the record collector magazine of …
After forming in the early 1990s for one record -- To Spite the Hand That Bleeds (Earache, 1993), Blood From the Soul is back with its second album and a revitalized lineup. Originally formed by Shane Embury (Napalm Death) and Lou Koller (Sick Of It All), the project fused industrial, …
Rapper Brother Ali has a new 17-track album out on Feb. 14, Satisfied Soul, featuring production from Ant with a soulful twist. It releases via Mello Music Group.
A new single, "D.R.U.M." is out now.
originally released in 2006, Red-Eyed Soul by The World/Inferno Friendship Society will be re-released in a 20th anniversary double LP on Ernest Jenning Record Co. on Oct. 30.
Marking the moment, the lineup from Red-Eyed Soul will reconvene to play a record release show for their newest album, After …
Spoon, set to release the new album They Want My Soul on Aug. 5 (Loma Vista) has announced a headlining North American tour in the fall.
Dates are listed below. They will be joined by Hamilton Leithauser or EMA on many of the tour stops.
Bridge Nine's Soul Control has announced plans to release Get Out Now, a five song EP, on July 12, 2011. In July the band will begin a European tour with Ritual.