Call me crazy, but when I was growing up I always thought the one irreplaceable member of a band was the lead singer. I don’t really think the statement needs much clarification but it can be said, they’re generally the iconic symbol of any band. You may go...
After a year and a half of relentless touring in support of The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw, critical instru-metal darlings Pelican are putting the finishing touches on their upcoming album, City of Echoes. Recorded in Steve Albini's famed Electrical...
Toronto-based, Trinidad-born, artist k-os will launch a comprehensive, coast-to-coast U.S. tour in early 2007. Running from mid-February all the way into early April, the tour will find k-os supporting the U.S. release of ATLANTIS – Hymns for Disco on February...
Hooray for needless punctuation! stellastarr* will be taking their asterisk on the road on the road for short jaunts up the east and west coast, playing intimate (read: buy your tickets now, because they'll sell out) settings as they preview new material from their...
Psych-rock trio Dead Meadow brought their winter tour to the Troubadour, on a rainy Saturday night in Los Angeles, with Spindrift and Tsk Tsk for an amazing performance that would keep the near capacity crowd transfixed until the very end. Having just finished a...
NY, NY—Along with his partner Rock, Sean Price (A.K.A. Ruck) dropped two impressive LP’s as the duo Heltah Skeltah; their 1996 debut Nocturnal (which included the indelible “Leflaur Leflah Eshkoshka”) and their 1998 follow-up Magnum Force. Sean...
Here are just a few of our contributors' top 10 favorite albums of 2006. It was pretty tough making such a short list, but these are the best of the best and will all make nice additions to your record collections… Mark Ziemke1. Midlake – The Trials of...
!!! Set To Release Their Third Full-length, Myth Takes, March 6th On Warp Records: The Brooklyn-by-way-of-California rock collective known by the unmistakable three exclamation points !!! or the tri-syllabic ChkChkChk are set to release their third full-length, Myth...
Sexy! Sexy! Sexy! Knees down and rockin’, Peaches blew the top off the house tonight.One thing for certain is that the boys and the girls alike came out to play with Peaches and I think not one of those souls left disappointed.By nights end, I know more than one...