Archive for January 23rd, 2014

Neil Young to Release New Album ‘A Letter Home’ in March

According to Rolling Stone, American icon Neil Young confirmed at a Grammy party last night (where he received the President’s Merit award) that he is releasing a new album in March called A Letter Home.  Let’s not forget that he is also teaming up with Jack White to release a covers album sometime, too. Yesterday morning, however, Young’s Facebook page […]

STREAM: Earth Crisis – “De-Desensitize”

The New York-based five-piece Earth Crisis, who have probably been making music for longer than a lot of you have been alive, are currently streaming their newest single, titled “De-Desensitize.” You can check it out for yourself after the break. This is the first glimpse fans have gotten of what will be the outfit’s eighth […]

VINYL REVIEW: Postmadonna – ‘POSTMADONNA’

Artist: Postmadonna Album: POSTMADONNA Original Release Date: April 1, 2013 I stumbled upon Seattle’s Postmadonna on Bandcamp in the latter half of 2013, greeted with vivid colors, intriguing song titles, and a unique, yet somewhat brief self-titled effort boasting nine accessible experimental, math-rock tracks that had thoughts of Tera Melos, Cursive, and Fang Island rattling […]

The Hold Steady Announce ‘Teeth Dreams,’ Stream New Song

Four years after the release of their last album The Hold Steady have returned with a new record and a new label to call home. Teeth Dreams is the sixth studio album from The Hold Steady, and according to a new story on RollingStone this morning the record will be released March 25 through Washington […]

REVIEW: Throwdown – ‘Intolerance’

Artist: Throwdown Album: Intolerance Genre: Hardcore Throwdown have always been one of the more divisive bands in the hardcore scene, attracting a steady stream of passionate detractors who hate on them with a passion, labelling them ‘derivative,’ ‘unimaginative,’ ‘preachy,’ and ‘dated.’ Fortunately for the band, the passion of their detractors has never been a match […]

Gangster Children’s Stories: Ice Cube Remixes ‘Goodnight Moon’

It is becoming harder and harder to remember the days when Ice Cube was cool. Are We There Yet was an understandable foray into family films, which made sense given the break he’d taken from the Friday franchise, and no one could argue the need for him to do the sequel after the first one […]

Less Than Jake, Chelsea Grin, And More Added To Warped Tour Lineup

Another Thursday morning means another set of bands you can look forward to seeing on this summer’s edition of the Vans Warped Tour. This week’s announcement features veteran punk/ska group Less Than Jake and Utah deathcore act Chelsea Grin. The rest of the fairly diverse announcement is rounded out by Rise Records rockers Secrets, Northwest […]

Letlive. Release First ‘Renditions’ Track Featuring Keith Buckley

We hear remixes, covers, and collaborations every day, but post-hardcore act letlive. are aiming for a little of all three with their Renditions project. The Los Angeles band enlisted a number of guest vocalists from around the scene to write and perform their own parts over sections of songs from letlive.’s 2013 sophomore album, The […]

Stream iamamiwhoami’s New Single Via Stunning Music Video

In December of 2009, I came across a couple of mysterious videos that immediately piqued my interest. They initially appeared to be some kind of music video teasers, but for what, or whom, I did not know. After doing some digging with fellow forum members, we came to the conclusion that it involved Jonna Lee, […]

Backtrack’s Australian Tour Begins Today

New York hardcore upstarts Backtrack have arrived in Australia and will be kicking off their Australian tour tonight in Brisbane. The tour which is in support of their crushing new record, Lost In Life (out now through Bridge Nine records), began with a brief trek through New Zealand over the last few days, and sees […]

MUSIC VIDEO: Reflections – “Vain Words From Empty Minds”

Reflections are a five piece metal outfit based out of central Minnesota. The band released their most recent full length album, Exi(s)t, this past October. From that album, they have a single titled “Vain Words From Empty Minds.” Yesterday the group premiered a music video for the song, and you can check it out below. […]