Cheese Coney Reviews: Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Thermals, Grey Host and more
Get ready for another batch of Cheese Coney album reviews from John Crowell…..
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Get ready for another batch of Cheese Coney album reviews from John Crowell…..
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Throughout their 11-year career, The Thermals have thrived on endearing, wise, snotty, righteous anger.
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I hate to break it to you, but you're gonna be heading toward Record Store Day this Saturday at a deficit.
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With The Thermals ' 2006 masterpiece, The Body, The Blood, The Machine , frontman Hutch Harris sang about a dystopian United States ruled by a fascist Christian government.
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"I'm in Geneva at the moment," smiles Sarah Brightman.
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For all the accompanying interior and exterior gore and trauma that accompanies it, and the range from the level of the individual to the international to the intergalactic at which it can be unleashed, violence possesses an inherent clarity in its process: action and consequence; cause and effect.
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Every Monday through Friday, we deliver a different song as part our Song of the Day podcast subscription.
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"me" songs and "we" songs – and, for a scrawny thirtysomething indie-rocker, his way with the first person is spectacular.
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Since 2002, the Thermals have crafted raucous, ebullient post-pop-punk tunes that are ridiculously catchy and singularly intense.
Read MoreViva Indie Rock is a blog dedicated to bringing you our marginal opinions on new (and sometimes old) releases that we really like.
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The Thermals' sixth studio album and Saddle Creek debut, Desperate Ground , won't hit stores until April 16th.
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Following their incredible set at the CoSigns II party at SXSW, the Rock it Out!
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Record Store Day has revealed the full list of exclusive releases available for its 2013 edition (April 20th).
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After all, their self-directed video for "Born to Kill" plays out the like the forthcoming third season of Showtime's only watchable program.
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Heroic Portland punk power trio the Thermals will release their new album Desperate Ground next month, and they've just given us the self-directed video for the anthemic first single " Born To Kill." The video stars frontman Hutch Harris as a wild-eyed lunatic and the other two Thermals as mysterious government types who brutally suppress and interrogate him.
Read MoreThe Thermals hands down "won SXSW", if you must.
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Ostensibly, attending Austin's logo-infused music (and movie, and tech) industry sprawl South By Southwest is expensive.
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Follow along daily as Spinner Editor Sarah takes on SXSW for the very first time.
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The second of our four SXSW day parties at connected Austin venues The Main and The Jr. happened Thursday (3/15).
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The Thermals have turned a lot of heads at SXSW 2013, and for good reason.
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I always preferred the AS2200 to the ES335 as well.
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The Thermals signed to Saddle Creek Records in January and in April will release Desperate Ground , their first album in three years.
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Hutch Harris and Kathy Foster made names for themselves before becoming the core of The Thermals , gaining a cult following as folk duo Hutch and Kathy.
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Before venturing off to your Friday night festival destination, check out our own Happy Hour with Golden Void , Wild Moth , and DSTVV at Bender's Bar (5pm, free, 21+).
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The long-running, hard-pogoing Portland punk trio the Thermals will drop their new album Desperate Ground in a couple of months, and first single is a righteous rager called "Born To Kill," an anthemic call-to-arms that ends in less than two minutes.
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The Thermals have shaved off the first listen from their forthcoming sixth studio album, Desperate Ground , due out April 16th via Saddle Creek.
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In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book.
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Though you may have heard by now, Portland's The Thermals are currently gearing up for a massive comeback (though we are under strict instructions by their PR folks not to "call it a comeback," so maybe don't listen to us).
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The Thermal s have recently finished recording their sixth LP (title and label TBA) with John Agnello (Dinosaur Jr., Sonic Youth, Hold Steady) at Water Music in Hoboken, NJ.
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In honor of Independence Day, KEXP is saluting some of our favorite indie record labels who's DIY-spirit helped revolutionize the music industry.
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The performers of the biggest show of the Northside Festival – a multi-venue independent rock sprawl in fashionable Williamsburg, Brooklyn – were an unlikely mix.
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