Jon Snodgrass (Drag The River, Armchair Martian) and Bad Astronaut, one of Joey Cape’s side projects, will be embarking on a 5-date tour of Eastern Canada in May 2011. This will be the first time that Bad Astronaut will perform in Canada. Click here for the dates. Bad Astronaut released “Acrophobe” this past September on […]
Jon Snodgrass (Drag The River, Armchair Martian) and Bad Astronaut, one of Joey Cape’s side projects, will be embarking on a 5-date tour of Eastern Canada in May 2011. This will be the first time that Bad Astronaut will perform in Canada. Click here for the dates.
Bad Astronaut released “Acrophobe” this past September on Suburban Home Records.
Floridian ska act The Supervillains have posted the music video for a cover of the Billy Joel song “Movin’ Out (Anthony’s Song.)” Click here to watch. The Supervillains have a new album titled “Postcards From Paradise” coming out in January 2011. To support the album, the band will be hitting the road with Less Than […]
Floridian ska act The Supervillains have posted the music video for a cover of the Billy Joel song “Movin’ Out (Anthony’s Song.)” Click here to watch.
The Supervillains have a new album titled “Postcards From Paradise” coming out in January 2011. To support the album, the band will be hitting the road with Less Than Jake in January/February. Check out the dates and locations here. [Read more…]
Well, another year is drawing to a close. People are gearing up for the holidays and it’s almost time for us to start creating our New Year’s resolution lists. But before we begin looking to the future, let’s employ a different kind of list to help us appreciate the past. You know what I’m talking […]
Well, another year is drawing to a close. People are gearing up for the holidays and it’s almost time for us to start creating our New Year’s resolution lists. But before we begin looking to the future, let’s employ a different kind of list to help us appreciate the past. You know what I’m talking about. Yep, a Top Ten list! Each day for the next couple weeks I’m going to publish a different Top 10 albums of 2010 list for you to praise, completely disagree with, or just outright ignore.
Today’s list come from brothers, Nat and Rob Rufus, of the Blacklist Royals. Check out their picks for the 10 Best Albums of 2010 right here. [Read more…]
Scottish Canadian folk punks The Real McKenzies have released a music video for their song “Culling the Herd” and you can check it out right here. The song appears on the band’s 2008 album, “Off The Leash,” released on Fat Wreck Chords.
Scottish Canadian folk punks The Real McKenzies have released a music video for their song “Culling the Herd” and you can check it out right here.
The song appears on the band’s 2008 album, “Off The Leash,” released on Fat Wreck Chords.
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This is the first thought I had when I first listened to “Turn Me Off”, the debut full-length from Maryland’s DeepSleep:
A little more walking bass and this could be a missing Descendents B-side collection, if they had been listening to a little too much Dag Nasty and Black Flag before releasing it.
And I stick by that sentiment. Vocalist Tony Pence even has a slight Milo Aukerman snarl to his yelling, albeit Pence takes it up a few notches in the aggressive scale.
This is cool though, because honestly there isn’t nearly enough bands doing this kind of punk hardcore anymore. This shit is fun, look no further than the opening track “Live Forever” or the rapid-fire “Be With You” for evidence that DeepSleep in all likelihood kill it live. That’s right folks, this is stage diving music. But it’s not nearly that simple either: “Destroy Everything” which features the band channeling as much “Everything Sucks” as possible is definitely a short-burst of energy but the amount of sweet riffs and tempo’ changes that the band managed to cram into it’s holy-fuck-it’s-not-even-a-minute-long duration is impressive, especially making it sound as concise as they do. The band’s best track however is possibly the absolutely awesome “Head Spins” which features the best guitar work in the entire album as well as sounding like something that isn’t as much Black Flag as it is pure and raging DeepSleep. Close contenders for this title include “Turn Me Off” and “Nothing Inside” which also showcase the firm grasp that the band has on their writing techniques. Too often bands in this genre either write loosely and play even sloppier or they tighten up to tight and constrain the sound. DeepSleep avoid both traps, playing extremely tight but allowing the song to go where it needs to go, controlling it, keeping it in check and not letting it extend any farther than it needs to. Keeping it short, sweet and exciting. Before you know it, the album is over and you’re hitting the repeat button.
However, for all it’s merit DeepSleep’s “Turn Me Off” has a tendency to blend together, which doesn’t allow for a really optimum first listen. Also, the band has an awful knack to write an incredibly tight hook only to never use it again, for example though “Turn Me Off” is a fantastic tune, the intro riff is absolutely money and it’s never featured in the song again. Seriously, what’s up with that? Also, aside from a few songs the band does stray too far into their influences, barely raising a hand among the ocean of bands who sound like other bands. But really I’m just being nit-picky now, “Turn Me Off” is a solid release from a band that I have nothing but faith in. Awesome punk rock for people with short attention spans, get it.
In our eternal quest to give you guys a little more insight into how the magic behind the music happens, we’re continuing our label spotlight series, this time with the folk over at Anchorless Records. For those not familiar with the label, it’s been responsible for releases from the likes of Brendan Kelly, Jeff Rowe […]
In our eternal quest to give you guys a little more insight into how the magic behind the music happens, we’re continuing our label spotlight series, this time with the folk over at Anchorless Records. For those not familiar with the label, it’s been responsible for releases from the likes of Brendan Kelly, Jeff Rowe and more recently the new Sainte Catherines album, “Fireworks”.
Founder, owner and all round cool guy, Neil, answered our questions on just how Anchorless operates and you can read all about it here.
Angels & Airwaves (fronted by Tom Delonge of Blink 182) will be releasing “Love II,” on February 14th (Valentine’s Day), 2011 as a follow-up to last year’s Valentine release of “Love.” Most of you would probably prefer it if Tom focused on that new Blink album, but for you Angels & Airwaves fans out there […]
Angels & Airwaves (fronted by Tom Delonge of Blink 182) will be releasing “Love II,” on February 14th (Valentine’s Day), 2011 as a follow-up to last year’s Valentine release of “Love.”
Most of you would probably prefer it if Tom focused on that new Blink album, but for you Angels & Airwaves fans out there you can check out a clip of a new song called “Surrender” off the upcoming “Love II” album right here.
Weezer frontman, Rivers Cuomo, did a cover of “God Only Knows” by The Beach Boys. It’s done solo, at the piano, and might not be very “punk rock” but its a slow as hell news day and I grew up listening to The Beach Boys and then Weezer so you’re gonna watch it and you’re […]
Weezer frontman, Rivers Cuomo, did a cover of “God Only Knows” by The Beach Boys. It’s done solo, at the piano, and might not be very “punk rock” but its a slow as hell news day and I grew up listening to The Beach Boys and then Weezer so you’re gonna watch it and you’re gonna like it, damnit!
Check it out right here.
Well, another year is drawing to a close. People are gearing up for the holidays and it’s almost time for us to start creating our New Year’s resolution lists. But before we begin looking to the future, let’s employ a different kind of list to help us appreciate the past. You know what I’m talking […]
Well, another year is drawing to a close. People are gearing up for the holidays and it’s almost time for us to start creating our New Year’s resolution lists. But before we begin looking to the future, let’s employ a different kind of list to help us appreciate the past. You know what I’m talking about. Yep, a Top Ten list! Each day for the next couple weeks I’m going to publish a different Top 10 albums of 2010 list for you to praise, completely disagree with, or just outright ignore.
Today’s list comes from Tommy, our managing editor and producer of the Dying Scene Sessions. You can check out his picks for the 10 Best Albums of 2010 here. [Read more…]
So that jolly fat man should have given you all some wicked shit for Christmas and now we at Dying Scene are bringing you something awesome to read. Roger Miret, who is the front man from seminal hardcore band Agnostic Front, recently sat down with Dying Scene to talk about his other project, Roger Miret […]
So that jolly fat man should have given you all some wicked shit for Christmas and now we at Dying Scene are bringing you something awesome to read. Roger Miret, who is the front man from seminal hardcore band Agnostic Front, recently sat down with Dying Scene to talk about his other project, Roger Miret and The Disasters. We talked about what drives the man and his music and you can read all about it here.