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Substances, death, and purpose fueled Culture Abuse for their most imaginative release yet

It’s roughly 9pm on a Thursday night inside Seattle’s Funhouse, and Culture Abuse have finished sound check for one of their last tour dates opening for the enigmatic Self Defense Family, leading into the release of their 6131 Records full-length debut, Peach. Standing front and center is the band’s vocalist, David Kelling, who’s shifting his […]

Members of Darkside, The Antlers, Real Estate, More to Play Glasslands Farewell Show

New York City’s DIY venues are slowly closing up. 285 Kent is deceased, Death by Audio is now done, and in a little over a month, Glasslands will be as well. The venue will be putting on several exceptional final shows before they close their doors. Today, they announced a big holiday party that will […]

REVIEW: Pile – ‘Special Snowflake / Mama’s Lipstick’ 7″

Artist: Pile Album: Special Snowflakes / Mama’s Lipstick Genre: Post-punk, rock & roll, indie rock Label: Exploding in Sound Records The burned-out psychedelic grunge of Dripping still has its edge. When it was released, Pile were a band that I had heard but never seen live – a band that had played shows with favorites […]

Pile Stream “Special Snowflakes”

Pile is a band I have long been fond of. Though they have long been on Exploding in Sound Records, the label only really took off after last year’s positive Pitchfork review of Speedy Ortiz’s Major Arcana, though it should be noted that Ovlov’s am. was another highlight of 2013. That said, Pile may just […]

REVIEW: You Blew It! – ‘Keep Doing What You’re Doing’

Artist: You Blew It! Album: Keep Doing What You’re Doing Label: Topshelf Records Genre: Emo, Indie As someone who has written his fair share of album reviews, I always jump at the opportunity to take a look at the newest releases from bands on Topshelf Records. Their bands run the gamut of being anywhere from […]

Bomb The Music Industry! Announce Last Show

On November 20 the on-and-off-again band, Bomb The Music Industry! (BtMI!), announced their last show will take place on January 19, 2014 with Cheap Girls at Warsaw in Brooklyn, NY. An hour after tickets went on sale (noon EST today), the show was sold out. BtMI! have been threatening the end for some time now, especially […]

STREAM/DOWNLOAD: Toasted Plastic – ‘June Highs’ (Album)

Toasted Plastic are an up and coming emo/math rock band from New Jersey working largely on the DIY circuit. (Their booking information even says “We will try to play any show.”) The weird rockers have released a full length today called June Highs on the new Bandcamp. It isn’t the band’s first album, but it […]

Our Last Night Apparently No Longer With Epitaph Records

According to a couple of tweets by Our Last Night‘s vocalist, Trevor Wentworth, the band is no longer a part of the Epitaph Records family. So far there have been no official statements from either the band or the label, but I imagine we will hear from one or both of them in the near […]

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Streetlight Manifesto Fans Fight To Get DC Venue Changed

Last night a group of punk kids from the DC area began petitioning for Streetlight Manifesto to drop the venue they booked in Northern Virginia (which for those who don’t know is basically a suburb of DC) known as Empire. For those who remember, a few weeks back The Wonder Years spoke out against Empire’s […]

TEASER TRAILER: Do It Together (Documentary)

A few weeks back, we showed you the first trailer to Do It Together, a documentary on the Do-It-Yourself scene and musicians an artists working together. It promised to even be a how to, which should be interesting for all aspiring musicians who are just starting out or have been going at it for years […]

TRAILER: Do It Together (Documentary)

We here at UTG are always trying to bring you the best in up and coming bands and independent films. With Do It Together, these two merge. The film is a full length independent documentary on the Do-It-Yourself scene, connecting everyone from modern day math rockers Tera Melos to noise group Deerhoof to new wave […]

Taking Back Sunday To Release Two Live Albums From TAYF Tour

New York rockers Taking Back Sunday have been killing their Tell All Your Friends Tenth Anniversary Tour. They’ve recently let on that there are more plans involving TAYF10 to come: two live albums, one acoustic and one regular. The tour isn’t even over yet, though; at least two UTG staffers are going to Taking Back […]