The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die

The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die Return With New Track, “Katamari Duquette”

Seems like just yesterday we were calling The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die‘s 2015 LP, Harmlessness, one of the best of the year. While we’re still singing that tune, the musical collective has already dropped a new track from their upcoming 7-inch, Long Live Happy Birthday, that […]

Stream And Download The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die’s Monumental New LP, ‘Harmlessness’

The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die have released their new album, Harmlessness, a few days in advance via Bandcamp. Check it out below. Harmlessness is huge in scale—a marvel in modern songwriting. The band’s massive sound reaches its full potential on many of these tracks, including the […]

REVIEW: The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die – ‘Between Bodies’

Artist: The World Is A Beautiful Place… Album: Between Bodies Label: Broken World Media Genre: Post-Rock, Spoken Word Every fan of music knows what it’s like to dislike a release from a band that used to be a favorite. It starts with the initial feeling of fear and trying to push through it enough to […]

The World Is A Beautiful Place And The Hotelier Announce Fall Tour

In just a few months, The World Is A Beautiful Place & I am No Longer Afraid To Die will gear up for an extensive nationwide tour alongside The Hotelier. In addition, Rozwell Kid and Posture & The Grizzly, both of whom are signed to Broken World Media, Derrick of TWIABP’s label, will be offering their […]

David Bello (TWIABP) Shares New Solo Track, “Two Summers”

David Bello, known to most as the lead vocalist for The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die, is set to release his newest solo offering, Tires, later this month via Man of 1000 Masks. Earlier in the day, fans were given their first glimpse of the EP in the […]

The World Is A Beautiful Place and Empire! Empire! Announce European Tour

Whether or not you believe emo was revived in 2013, it certainly had a banner year, and Connecticut eight-piece The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die were at the forefront, even breaking into the Billboard Top 200 with their debut full-length, Whenever, If Ever. Next April, the band […]

Tyler Hanan’s ‘Best Of 2013’ In Music

Personal year end lists are a beautiful thing, regardless of feelings towards the “best of” list’s annual, suffocating December deluge. Amalgamated and popular vote-based lists may filter out any releases that are remotely different, unknown, or unhip, but personal lists from trusted sources are a treasure trove of goodness, a ready-made shopping cart that can […]

Troy Sennett’s ‘Best of 2013’ In Music

Let’s talk about moments. Around 5:00 PM on June 8, 2013, I watched Spitalfield play “Stolen From Some Great Writer” to an empty theater. This was a band I never thought I would have the chance to see live soundchecking for a ten-year anniversary performance of Remember Right Now, a record that had a huge […]

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WATCH: One Hundred Year Ocean Perform Set As Modest Mouse

I wish more bands did things like this for Halloween. Phish is known to “be” other bands for Halloween, putting on what they call “musical costumes” and performing entire sets as a different band. That idea has spread to the New England indie scene, with The World Is A Beautiful Place And I Am No […]

Tigers Jaw Perform “I Saw Water” At Bled Fest

At Michigan’s premiere concert Bled Fest, Tigers Jaw were filmed performing the song “I Saw Water” in stunning high-definition. Check out the band’s four-way 7″ split that released with Self Defense Family/The World is a Beautiful Place & I am No Longer Afraid to Die/Code Orange Kids, which was released in joint effort by Run […]

REVIEW: The World Is A Beautiful Place – ‘Whenever, If Ever’

Artist: The World Is A Beautiful Place And I Am No Longer Afraid To Die Album: Whenever, If Ever Genre: Emo, Post-rock Label: Topshelf Records For two months, I have been waiting to tear a record apart. I have taken extra time to do reviews because I had mixed feelings, and deeply wanted the positives […]

ALBUM STREAM: The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die – ‘Whenever, If Ever’

Alternative Press is streaming the new TWIABP album due out on CD/LP on June 18 on Topshelf Records. You can also buy the album on bandcamp now for $7.