After a recent Philadelphia, PA show featuring their Red Album and Blue Album in their entireties, Baroness will soon bring a similar show on the road in the Midwest and Eastern portions of the US.
Dates are listed below. The band will be selling exclusive merch on …
Converge and Coalesce have come together to release their live performances from 1996 at CBGB's. Converge + Coalesce Live at CBGB's is available now digitally with a 2XLP release coming in August. You can pre-order at Deathwish now. Proceeds from the release will be donated …
Candle is the brainchild of singer/songwriter Kevin Coons, who expanded his solo recording project into a full band. Miles and Miles and Miles is the group's third release in as many years, and boasts a country tinged folk sound with small touches of indie rock. The album begins with "Pennies …
With an album title that sounds like the most recent Foo Fighters record, a song called "Fix You" (I thought Coldplay had already professed that particular desire), and a collection of tracks that sound like they want to be Green Day, My Chemical Romance or The Offspring circa 1994, The …
There's something very important one has to keep in mind when reviewing a Coreline album, or indeed merely when listening to it. And that is this: The brain that gave birth to this is one fully capable of rickrolling an entire festival audience, in amongst a performance that also delivers …
Jello BiafraSPB: What do you think of bands playing albums in their entirety as a touring concept? Is it a way to reinvigorate the album format?
Biafra: It's a way for someone as versatile as the Melvins to keep playing their hottest towns several times a year, and …
Nato Coles (Nato Coles & the Blue Diamond Band)
SPB: What are your expectations for the Replacements reunion?
Coles: The Replacements were one of the greatest rock'n'roll bands of all-time, no exaggeration, so I'm sure they'll sound good playing those songs, and I hope Slim's doing better. I …
Dan Abbott (Bobby Joe Ebola)
SPB: What is the furthest you've traveled to play a single show (vs setting up a corresponding tour)?
Abbott: Driving or flying? Somewhere around 1997 or so, we were contacted by a private college in Ohio. They offered us $900 to come play …
Welcome to the second instalment of Only Death Is Real. This time round we swing from power electronics to decaying cosmic black metal, giving equal coverage to EPs, full-lengths and splits. Click on the title and you’ll find yourself on the relevant Bandcamp page.
Axebreaker - Brutality in Stone …
Autry Fulbright II (Midnight Masses, …And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead)
SPB: How did you settle on the name Midnight Masses for the project?
Fulbright II: My dad was raised Catholic and my favorite Black Sabbath song is “War Pigs” ("generals gathered in their …
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Full disclosure:
While the moniker Iron & Wine blipped here and there on my radar and your humble narrator thinking that it would not be the worst name for a band anchored in the unsägliche genre that has become known as Neofolk, I had never actually listened …
SPB: What song (by any artist) has the best use of bongos?
Felix: That would be “Funky Nassau,” the version by The Blues Brothers. Never has bongoing been so succinctly demonstrated as a musical force. It’s in the second Blues Brothers film that I saw when I was ten, …
Felix Hagan & the Family play grandiose pop songs tinged with hints of musical theatre, classic rock, and jazz. Hagan's shows have been described as a whirlwind of show-off nonsense (in a good way!) with Hagan playing ringleader to a seven-piece backing band of highly theatrical, immaculately dressed, misfits. The …
Slapshot is currently wrapping up the recording of their Thorp Records debut entitled Tear It Down. The album will contain 7 tracks as well as enahanced video material. In related news the band has decided not to break up and will be performing shows this spring in support of the …
Let it Die recently finished recording their debut full-length at Mars Recordings Compound (Ringworm, Buried Alive). The effort, entitled Stick to Your Guns, is expected to be released through Spook City Records in December.
An mp3 from the band Unholy's demo has been posted online here. The band is made up of the following members: Jonathan Buske (Another Victim, Santa Sangre), Jonathan Dennison (Another Victim, The Promise), Corey Keniz (Santa Sangre, Freya), and Danny Johnson (Godbelow).
Mayfly and Self Aware Records will be co-releasing Center of the Sun's Machine Gun 12". The band includes members of Young and In the Way, but plays indie/shoegazed influenced rock in line with Denali, True Widow, and Joy Formindable. The LP will be limited to 300 copied on colored vinyl. …
The annual Pitchfork Music Fetival in Chicago has announced more bands to play at the Jul 19-21 event at Union Park. Among the new bands announced are Swans, El-P, The Breeders, Killer Mike, ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, Joanna Newsome, and more. The event previously …