Is there any goodwill left for erstwhile Glassjaw frontman Daryl Palumbo? It’s tough to recall a man so unconcerned with pleasing his fans that he appears to be doing anything he can to test them. With that in mind, peep the new video from Color Film.
Read moreThis thing never settles, and I mean that in the best possible way. Fizzy, fun and full of variety, the first full-length (although four of these songs are re-recorded cuts from a debut EP) from Michigan trio Brave Bird is Kinsella-esque emo done with some style. ‘Too Late Now’ is a fast-starting slice of sparkly, starry-eyed almost-pop punk, the title […]
Read moreThere’s a chance you’ve heard more about the music of Crosses than you’ve actually heard the music of Crosses. You’ve perhaps heard that this is a side-project of Deftones frontman Chino Moreno. You’ve possibly have heard that it also includes his old friend and former Far guitarist Shaun Lopez, and the fantastically named Chuck Doom, in the ranks. And you’ve almost certainly […]
Read moreSilence is a virtue, right? Unless you’re a music news and reviews website it seems. While the lack of updates here may have made it seem like we up and died, rumours of any permanent demise are greatly exaggerated. We’ve still been listening to, no, devouring tons of music in 2013
Read moreJesu change. Since 2004 the band’s mastermind, former Napalm Death and Godflesh member Justin Broadrick, has gradually, granularly, slowly but surely distorted his post metal sound to incorporate elements of electronica, shoegaze, and, whisper it, melody. It makes sense. Even the project’s earliest output favoured texture, mood and feeling, over any real definition. This time though, something is different. There […]
Read moreIt feels almost sacrilegious to say, but this, the combined effort of members of Deftones and Isis is… fine. Sure, some three minutes into opener ‘Future Warrior’, as Chino Moreno applies his unique croon to the post-rock rumble of bassist Jeff Caxide, drummer Aaron Harris, and guitarist Cliff Meyer, you get a taste of what might have been. But ultimately, […]
Read moreThis shouldn’t have any impact. Shai Hulud’s influence now extends so far that bands are ripping off bands that already ripped off the New York outfit and they don’t even know it. Seriously, had Shai Hulud not recorded their scene-starting debut ‘Hearts Once Nourished with Hope and Compassion’, names like Counterparts, The Ghost Inside (whose frontman guests here), and Hundredth […]
Read moreThis almost didn’t happen. Oxford’s TTNG (the artists formerly known as This Town Needs Guns) have been through some stresses and strains since their last album and the shifting line-up here shows it. A guitarist and singer are out and former Pennines frontman Henry Tremain is in. Oh, and the whole shebang could have been shut down by the Mayan […]
Read moreThe next Dillinger Escape Plan album will be called ‘One of Us Is the Killer’. Recorded by Steve Evetts (Dillinger/Every Time I Die), the band’s fifth full-length is due out May 2013 on their own label, Party Smasher Inc. and will look like this.
Read more‘Bushcraft’ is alive, it breathes, but only the blackest breaths, and it swells and heaves with sick imagery and sicker sounds. Hissing venom, squealing feedback, the barks of mad dogs and the bellows of madder men all echo through the first full-length from Vancouver quartet Baptists, and the violence threatens to bubble over, flood into your lap at any second. […]
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