Re-Ranking SPIN’s Top 100 Drummers In Alternative Music
Guys, I think we need to have a quick discussion about something.
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Guys, I think we need to have a quick discussion about something.
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The line-up features a diverse range of programming including opera, theater, music and dance.
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On April 24, 1989, Tom Petty released "Full Moon Fever," his first solo album.
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If you've listened to music, in say, the past 35 years, you've probably heard D.C. native Ian MacKaye's voice -- fronting a slew of bands from Fugazi to Minor Threat.
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Do you like playing festivals more or clubs more?
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"When I was 12 years old I bought my first 7 inch record; Blutonic by The Bluetones. Prior to this I had a shitty transistor radio which only picked up long wave radio before upgrading to a double tape and radio. I had owned a few tapes (most notably a Classic Rock collection I begged my dad to buy with his ESSO tokens featuring my then favourite, "Baker Street" by Gerry Rafferty) and some copied albums from school friends. The only ones I remember were Nevermind by Nirvana and Definitely Maybe by Oasis, both of which were listened to till they snapped."
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Michael Sandison and Marcus Eoin are notorious for exploiting the cavernous depths of the human imagination.
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A recently-reformed At the Drive-In , post-hardcore cult darlings since the turn of the millennium, are playing to a sold-out Brixton Academy.
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Any term that's been applied to both Rites of Spring and My Chemical Romance is clearly one over which there's little agreement.
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As a 15-year-old living in small-town 1993, I felt somewhat duty bound to be 'into' The Fall. So finally being aware of a forthcoming record release from the band seemed to me more like a call-to-arms than just another notch on the Fall completist's bedpost, and most certainly the best place to start my relationship with Mark E Smith's revered revolving-door rock band.
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Silver Arm's "Dead Tongues" has the ability to rile up even its most reserved listeners.
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LILYS! full noise version of this fine east coast indie band fronted by kurt heasley!
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The best new music/artist picks of the last week.
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On the way up to the football last Saturday I decided for the first time in a long while to have a listen to Idlewild for the first time in ages and also to do a blog posting on them.
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"What a difference, what a difference a little difference would make."
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As we previously observed , Brooklyn band Parquet Courts make a sound whose exact genre is hard to nail down.
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A sentence not really out of context from Gerard Way's eulogy for My Chemical Romance reads, "Fiction. Friction. Creation. Destruction. Opposition. Aggression. Ambition. Heart. Hate. Courage. Spite. Beauty. Desperation. LOVE. Fear. Glamour. Weakness. Hope."
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After seeing Baltic Cousins an estimated 14,722 times in-person over the last calendar year, it was nice to get ahold of the recordings of their new stuff.
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If you're a music fan–and if you're not why are you here when you should be off looking at porn like a normal person?–you've got, whether you realize it or not, a Top 10 list running through your head.
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Onstage, the two brothers in Disclosure don't look like much — two near-identical pale scrunched-up British guys in plain T-shirts, hunched behind banks of electronics.
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From there, I rushed across town to South Congress to watch friend and fellow new music fanatic Mathew Young aka label boss, blogger and podcaster 'Song By Toad' www.songbytoad.com getting his first Tattoo... a total must in Austin!
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Paperhaus, the Washington, DC foursome who reside in the DIY collective space also known as "The Paperhaus," have released two EPs and have plans to record a full-length album this summer.
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Because I'm a modern man, and the modern man only reads articles on the internet which reinforce his narrow ways of thinking, I've been able to avoid John Roderick's Seattle Weekly piece, Punk Rock is Bullshit, for the better part of a week.
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Canada's largest new music festival is in its 31st year of showcasing some of the hottest acts and emerging Canadian artists.
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Papa Roach , Escape The Fate , and Otherwise represent three strands of hard rock.
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Brendan Canty played drums in Fugazi ; Rich Morel's a singer-songwriter with a side-hustle remixing Nelly Furtado songs for the club.
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Split LPs tend to be either massively self-indulgent, or rare slabs of collective brilliance.
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I saw Killdozer once at the Black Cat. The club was nearly empty, and I took advantage of this fact to stand right up against the stage.
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Stompin' Tom Connors was pointing at the various things in and around his famous-slash-infamous rec room and its horseshoe-shaped bar.
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Witnessing Fugazi live was akin to being on the high seas.
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And after a three year wait, the two-time Juno Award nominees' highly-anticipated third album , Static Psalms was released a few weeks ago on Divergent Recordings.
Read MoreThe Dischord Records logo , with its simple, scrawled white lettering set against a stark black backdrop, has served as an unrivaled seal of punk rock and hardcore quality for more than 30 years.
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We were about 10 klicks out of Da Nang when everything went fugazi.
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"It was important for us to really dig in and find our own sound," explains Michael Cobra of King Loses Crown.
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Iceage 's 2011 debut New Brigade was a frantic and breathless din that struck a chord with those bored by pop and alternative rock's propensity for gloss and over production.
Read MoreTransgressive Records are thrilled to announce the first re-release campaign in the label�s nine-year history, with two classic albums from one of the world�s most influential bands, At The Drive-In.
Read MoreTransgressive Records have announced the first re-release campaign in the labels nine-year history, with two classic albums from one of the worlds most influential bands, At The Drive-In.
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