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Album Review: Phoenix – Bankrupt!

Mon, April 22 2013 4:20am - Source: Consequence of Sound

With just under a minute remaining on "Entertainment" , the first track and lead single off Phoenix' s latest album Bankrupt! , we arrive at the bridge.

Meek is Murder and Tiger Flowers Make Metal’s First Split Video

Wed, March 27 2013 8:59pm - Source: Metal Sucks

While split 7″s and EPs are nothing new in metal, I honestly cannot remember ever having seen a split music video before.

Graded on a Curve: Chris Darrow, Artist Proof

Tue, February 26 2013 1:47pm - Source: The Vinyl District

Up to this point the career of Chris Darrow has been far from front-page news, but the overdue reissue by Drag City of his terribly overlooked 1972 solo LP Artist Proof should underscore his small but substantial placement in the history of early-'70s country-rock.

Show No Mercy: KEN mode and Inter Arma

Fri, February 08 2013 7:36pm - Source: Pitchfork Media

The second half of 2012 included installments of Show No Mercy featuring some bigger bands like Baroness , Converge , and Pig Destroyer.

Kit Brown's Top Albums of 2012

Mon, December 17 2012 8:10pm - Source: metalinjection

While it may not be a huge departure for the band, Pig Destroyer's fifth full-length is filled to the brim with ravaging riffs, blistering blasts and J.R. Hayes' textbook vitriol.

Exclusive Interview: Bison BC Guitarist/Vocalist Dan And

Tue, November 13 2012 10:31pm - Source: Metal Sucks

Unlike many of its more populous peers, Canada's metallic output falls squarely under the "quality, not quantity" camp, stretching from the outer limits into the Ross Bay cemetery, and stopping in Wendigo country along the way.

Chiildren: Just Two Adult Film Actors Making Black Metal-Kissed Industrial

Mon, November 05 2012 10:39pm - Source: Noisecreep

Comprised of Chris Zeischegg and Chad Fjerstad (formerly of Victory Records artists Dead to Fall ), Chiildren is a new(ish) duo specializing in a strain of industrial metal that lassos in elements of black metal and post-rock.

The 10 Best Indie Rock Documentaries

Tue, September 18 2012 6:55pm - Source: Stereogum

In a perfect world, all albums would be self-contained universes.

Influential Record Label Closing Shop, Soundgarden to Ink New Label Deal + More News

Wed, September 12 2012 1:01pm - Source: Noisecreep

A moment of silence, as Hydra Head Records , the label responsible for bringing us releases by Cave In Botch and more, is closing shop.

Frank Turner: Guitars and chums and desperate poetry

Thu, April 12 2012 2:55pm - Source: Music Week

When whispers snuck out that the uproarious, splenetic frontman of hardcore act Million Dead was launching a solo folk career in 2005, there were two prevalent reactions: tattooed fanboy anguish and punk scenester bewilderment.

Esperanza Spalding - Radio Music Society

Mon, March 19 2012 12:05pm - Source: BBC Music

After the breakthrough of 2010's Chamber Music Society , the album which saw bassist-vocalist Esperanza Spalding grab a Best New Artist Grammy as Justin Bieber 's publicists wondered, "Who's she?" comes the tricky business of, "What's next?"

Arctic Monkeys Botch New Year's Eve Countdown at Australian Festival

Tue, January 03 2012 5:10pm - Source: Spinner

Australians are always among the first people on the planet to mark the arrival of a new year, but Saturday night, those who rang in 2012 with the Arctic Monkeys had to wait an extra minute for their countdown.

Five Albums That Changed My Life: Josh Sparks of Former Thieves

Thu, November 17 2011 8:38pm - Source: Noisecreep

Since forming in 2009, the members of Former Thieves have spent more time in the inside of a tour van than their own homes.

FUN FUN FUN FEST: THE CRUSTCAKE APPROVED NON-METAL PREVIEW

Wed, November 02 2011 1:38pm - Source: crustcake

Fun Fun Fun Fest is returning to Austin this weekend and seeing as how they've stacked the deck with one of the greatest metal and hardcore line-ups of any fest this year, Crustcake just had to make an appearance, with both journalistic and celebratory intentions.

Ten Questions with Gentle Ghost

Mon, June 20 2011 4:38pm - Source: Oklahoma Rock Newsblog

Their music is spacey and reminds me a bit of My Bloody Valentine.

THIS IS REAL HARDCORE, FRUITS [via the neighborhood]

Mon, May 02 2011 10:00pm - Source: Metal Sucks

If you like songs about castles, monsters, and wizards, you are probably a metal fan.

SWEDEN: STILL LIVING IN ITS OWN SHADOW

Wed, April 27 2011 7:42pm - Source: Metal Sucks

Swedish reader Tom Lindén (who has made some cool artwork, which you can check out here ) e-mailed us to recommend that we check out Yersinia , who he described as "a quite unknown Swedish band" that are "beyond awesome and definitely my favorite upcoming Swedish band."

LONG LIVE METALCORE!!! LONG LIVE THE CHARIOT???

Tue, December 07 2010 4:08pm - Source: crustcake

The glory days of the genre I love the most: metalcore.

Minus the Bear Reinvent the Progressive Funky Rock Jam in New York

Sun, December 05 2010 9:18pm - Source: Spinner

In the beginning, rock n' roll was all about sex, attitude, fun and more sex.

No more music from the quilted generation

Wed, September 29 2010 12:17am - Source: The Independent - Music

Browsing through album release schedules recently, I was struck by how active rock's old guard were at the present time, with some weeks' lists appearing less like album schedules than seating-plans for the annual charabanc outing from the Home for Old Rockers.