“…brutal, malevolent, and inhumanely fast…” — Revolver on Slayer SLAYER ANNOUNCES WINTER 2007 HEADLINE TOUR Unearthed to be Special Guest on All Dates Los Angeles, CA – November 14, 2006 — SLAYER – Tom Araya/bass, vocals,...
Mike Kinsella (of Joan of Arc, Owls, Cap’n Jazz, American Football, and probably six or seven other art-spazz bands) will be taking off on a fairly rigorous tour of the lower 48 as his (mostly) solo incarnation, Owen. The tour is in support of At Home With, his...
Song for song covers of albums tend to be a pretty lame affair. Every once in a while, someone knocks out an all star Beatles re-enactment and effectively flattens it of any spirit. Which is why it is practically startling just how good this track-for-track version of...
GOD FORBID To Embark On Canadian Tour; Launch GFTV Early next month GOD FORBID will embark on a weeklong Canadian trek as direct support to Protest The Hero, which will be their most extensive run of this country yet. The tour kicks off on Dec. 9th and wraps up on Dec....
The purple one will start performing every weekend starting Nov. 10 LOS ANGELES – Prince fans, fire up that Little Red Corvette and head for Las Vegas: the purple one will be performing there every weekend starting Nov. 10. The diminutive rocker will play Friday-...
World Waits is damn right, Mr. Enigk. It’s been ten years since the indie pioneer (we refuse to use the now-bastardized term “emoâ€) has released a solo recording. His 1996 solo effort was a gorgeous, whimsical dark album. World Waits shows off...
M. Ward has always made a neat trick out of fusing certain varieties of American music—from elegiac Louis Armstrong riverboat rags to wistful Beach Boys blues—into something uniquely, compellingly his own. On Post-War, his latest album for Merge Records,...
After making the leap from indie to major, the Atlanta-based metal band Mastodon release their long-awaited third album Blood Mountain. Not many bands have the skill to evolve and encapsulate an entire ideology of metal from one album to the next. The first two...
The Long Winters aren’t necessarily my cup of tea but that won’t stop me from acknowledging that their new album Putting The Days To Bed is pretty good. After going through nearly a dozen crappy press kits, hearing a CD with actual songs and coherent lyrics...