At Sounds From The Other City 2012 I was asked to curate a stage under my Grey Lantern promoting moniker, confining my experience of that year's whole event to one sweltering pub called the Black Lion. I arrived at the venue at around 10am and left at 2am the next morning, with eight live acts, sound engineers, and a good few hundred people having passed through in between.
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2005′s War Metal , 2007′s Eater Of Birds , and 2009′s Gin. ( Gin placed at No. 2 on Stereogum's list of 2009′s best metal albums , and I had it at No. 3 on my Pazz & Jop ballot that year.)
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Swans founder Michael Gira isn't afraid to let songs wander around the half-hour mark.
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The news is out that guitarist Brian "Head" Welch" will perform two full sets with his former band, Korn. Head, who split in 2005 and became a Born Again Christian, launched a solo career, and currently plays in a group called Love and Death , will take up the axe and perform with his ex-band bros at Rock Am Ring and Rock Im Park in June 2013 in Germany.
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To delve into the work of Michael Gira is to accept the man's excesses as well as his triumphs.
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The whole phenomenon of artefacts that accrue quasi-magical value based on momentary or prolonged contact with cultural icons is a tawdry one.
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Pitchfork's unofficial Show No Mercy CMJ showcase on Saturday (10/20) at 285 Kent featured New York acts Car Bomb , Batillus , Pyrrhon , Primitive Weapons , and Theologian.
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On October 19-21, Birmingham's deliciously named Custard Factory will again host the annual Supersonic Festival.
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"I'm blasting out of here to go to Europe, so I'm working pretty much 24 hours a day right now. I'm outside in my garden as we're talking, and it's really cold! It's a really sudden transition here from summer to cold weather. I'm talking to you from Atlanta - it's one of the worst summers of my memory, terrible heat, and now it's really cold. As I said to my friend the other day, it takes a lot of courage and guts and pioneer spirit to live here. You're always kind of miserable down here!"
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The music business is often a depressing place.
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Time Warner internet is down in Williamsburg!
Read MoreThe bulk of the 32 minute title track on The Seer is two chords, one tritone apart from each other, played over and over again.
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"It's an arduous process, but in the end, great," says Michael Gira of Swans' rehearsals for their forthcoming tour of monumental new album, The Seer.
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Swans are a band that conjure primal forms of power: thunder and lightning, fire and brimstone, master over slave, predator over prey.
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Thirty years after forming Swans as a confrontational, industrial-tinged noise-rock outfit in New York City, Michael Gira's making some of the best music of his career.
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On August 13th the legendary via James Yorkston will release his new album, I Was A Cat From A Book , via Domino Records.
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As we previously reported, Supersonic Festival, which runs this October from 19th-21st October, is starting to look like a devilishly good prospect indeed.
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As we at the Quietus have helpfully pointed out , Swans are the greatest rock band on the planet, or at least high up among them.
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Already an established visual artist in her native Japan, Yoshiko Ohara moved to New York City to try and start a musical project.
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What were your goals in making this material available for remixing?
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New releases from A Storm of Light, Anaal Nathrakh, Arsonsists Get All the Girls, Nader Sadek, Scar Symmetry and more; a good day for metal!
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First of all, why the move from Neurot to Profound Lore, especially considering your ties to the label.
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-Entombed, Eyehategod, Black Breath, Wolfbrigade, and Pentagram at Maryland Deathfest.
Read MoreThis week we continue looking at the almost perfect metal albums that grace my iPod counting down from #300 to the best headbanger ever made. 140.
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Now this is a group name that I love, but it's misleading.
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"Well, first of all, the correct term is disinter ," says a deep-pitched, sardonic and instantly recognisable voice in response to my first question about the reappearance of Swans, over a decade after their last album and tour.
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