Today, the music video for the second track off the highly anticipated, upcoming My Chemical Romance album has been released. You can watch the music video for the song “Sing” right here. “Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys” is set to drop November 22nd on Reprise Records, although the album is streaming […]
Today, the music video for the second track off the highly anticipated, upcoming My Chemical Romance album has been released. You can watch the music video for the song “Sing” right here.
“Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys” is set to drop November 22nd on Reprise Records, although the album is streaming in its entirety here.
Canadian screamo act Silverstein have unveiled the artwork for their upcoming “Transitions” EP, due out December 7th. Click here to check it out. The band recently announced that they have signed with Hopeless Records (for American/European/Japanese releases) and with Universal Music (Canada). The band’s last release was “A Shipwreck In The Sand” with their former […]
Canadian screamo act Silverstein have unveiled the artwork for their upcoming “Transitions” EP, due out December 7th. Click here to check it out.
The band recently announced that they have signed with Hopeless Records (for American/European/Japanese releases) and with Universal Music (Canada).
The band’s last release was “A Shipwreck In The Sand” with their former label Victory Records.
Australian punks Anchors have just posted two new songs to their MySpace page. The songs “The Feel Good Hit Of The Summer” and “Buscemi” are off the band’s new album “Bad Juju,” which was released November 6th. Check them out!
Australian punks Anchors have just posted two new songs to their MySpace page.
The songs “The Feel Good Hit Of The Summer” and “Buscemi” are off the band’s new album “Bad Juju,” which was released November 6th. Check them out!
In this corner: Florida’s female-fronted, progressive band VersaEmerge! And in this corner: Maryland’s rock act The Dangerous Summer! Ready…FIGHT! Ahh, the sweet smell of band/tour drama. Last night, during the Vultures Unite tour, The Dangerous Summer left the ranks of VersaEmerge, Anarbor, and Conditions after a drunken fight involving throwing a beer bottle at TDS […]
In this corner: Florida’s female-fronted, progressive band VersaEmerge! And in this corner: Maryland’s rock act The Dangerous Summer! Ready…FIGHT!
Ahh, the sweet smell of band/tour drama. Last night, during the Vultures Unite tour, The Dangerous Summer left the ranks of VersaEmerge, Anarbor, and Conditions after a drunken fight involving throwing a beer bottle at TDS guitarist Cody Payne. Details on the circumstances of this are hazy, since both bands have their own accounts of what went on that night. If you wanna hear it from Sierra (of VersaEmerge)’s perspective, click here. For Cody’s perspective, click here.
You be the judge and vote for what you think really happened here.
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It’s surprising to me that Senses Fail is still even around. Now, don’t get me wrong; Out of the plethora of bands that the early 2000’s emo movement birthed Senses Fail was definitely special. Not nearly whiney enough to be paired with the likes of Hawthorne Heights or Fall Out Boy, but not nearly heavy enough to really bring them up in a conversation featuring Underoath and From Autumn To Ashes. They were this weird, grey area band, a band that incorporated punk into their sound far more often (and effectively) as their contemporaries. Hell, Let It Enfold You is still a decent album in my opinion. However, they briefly disappeared and resurfaced with a slight line up change and wrote the schizophrenic Still Searching which saw the band experimenting with a far heavier sound as well as playing with new found pop sensibilities. In less than a year they went through another line-up change (Jason Black of Hot Water Music on bass, seriously?) and released the even more bizarre Life Is Not A Waiting Room; which featured even heavier songs (“Wolves At My Door”) as well as even more pop-rock styled numbers (“Map The Streets”). If anything can be said for Senses Fail through the years is that they have stayed consistently true to their sound; forever blurring the line between hardcore and pop-rock far better than the likes of recent acts. Another year down the line and we find ourselves here, with their newest release The Fire, (still on long-time label, Vagrant Records) and I can’t shake a slight sense of disappointment.
If Senses Fail is expanding their sound at all it has definitely been in baby steps. One has to look no further than the combination of the cathartic “New Year’s Eve” followed by the bouncy “Safe House” to assure the listener that this is a tried and true Senses Fail album. Maybe the heavy songs are a bit heavier and the catchier numbers a little more layered but the foundations stay the same, this is a comfort zone for them and they would benefit greatly if they broke the habit. For example, “New Year’s Eve”, “Coward” and “Lifeboats” are great examples of the great melodic hardcore band that Senses Fail could be. Neilsen definitely has a powerful and angry yell and the band definitely has the chops to write a whole album composed of these more hardcore influenced songs. Or let’s look at the other side of the spectrum, “Safe House”, “Irish Eyes” and “Headed West”, with a bit more work these could be very catchy and intelligent rock/punk numbers ala early Boys Night Out. However, instead Senses Fail seems caught in the same rut they’ve fallen in since Still Searching. It’s not that they do it bad either; I’d be lying if I didn’t find myself singing along to most of the songs or slightly head banging to the brilliant break ending in “Coward”. But that’s the thing, it’s almost frustrating listening to these songs because the few glimpses Senses Fail does give the listener of the band (or bands) they could become are blurred between the comfortable grey of their sound. The Fire suffers from confusing versatility with inconsistency; and thus I often find that it spreads itself out too thin.
However, it’s not all ugly in the Senses Fail camp. It’s undeniable that these dudes put their hearts and soul into this band, especially front man Buddy Neilsen. His lyrics can sometimes come off as a bit whiny but his delivery has only bettered with age, especially seeing the great leaps forward he’s taken from the prepubescent screams in Let It Enfold You to the anguished yells we have now become so familiar with. Seriously, when this dude screams he really lets you have it. As far as his more melodic singing it’s hard to defeat his naturally high singing style but it’s become less and less annoying with each release, which is good to hear. Lyrically The Fire finds itself revisiting feelings of abandonment, hopelessness, loneliness, hope and revival that the past two predecessors were about, but here we find a far more blunt and confident Neilsen no longer wasting so much of his time in metaphors and writing far more direct words. As previously mentioned, musically the album is very tight and manages to add a level of coherence and togetherness to an otherwise bipolar release.
You know, it’s not terrible, nothing they’ve done has even been bad; but it’s taken them 3 tries now to hit the nail on the head and even though they’re getting closer and closer they’re still missing ever so slightly with The Fire. It might be down to flipping a coin for them, really it might make all the difference. We’ll see.
Los Angeles-based progressive/hardcore/mathcore (if you don’t know what mathcore is…look it up. It makes perfect sense) act The Human Abstract has a new album on the horizon…January 25th, that is. It’s called Digital Veil and will be released on Hopeless Records. Right now, they’ve got a song up called “Faust”, and you can listen to […]
Los Angeles-based progressive/hardcore/mathcore (if you don’t know what mathcore is…look it up. It makes perfect sense) act The Human Abstract has a new album on the horizon…January 25th, that is. It’s called Digital Veil and will be released on Hopeless Records. Right now, they’ve got a song up called “Faust”, and you can listen to it right here. Keep in mind this is their first release with new vocalist Travis Richter (ex-From First To Last), so this may or may not be the abstract humanity you are used to. Check out the song anyway.
The Human Abstract released their last album, Midheaven, back in 2008. It’s about time we hear something new from them.
The Rummies, a folk/punk band from Sweden, has released a video for a song off their release The Single. This song is called “Too Old To Die” and can be viewed here. And if ya like it enough, The Single is available for FREE download right here. Yes, I said it. Free. The Single is […]
The Rummies, a folk/punk band from Sweden, has released a video for a song off their release The Single. This song is called “Too Old To Die” and can be viewed here. And if ya like it enough, The Single is available for FREE download right here. Yes, I said it. Free.
The Single is just two tracks, much like the vinyl releases of yesteryear…hence the name.
Buffalo, New York’s Lemuria has been talking about this full-length called Pebbles for some time now. Well folks, they’ve announced a release date for this release: January 11, 2011 (or 1/11/11, for all you people who like to see dates that are all of the same number). But if you can’t wait that long, they’ve […]
Buffalo, New York’s Lemuria has been talking about this full-length called Pebbles for some time now. Well folks, they’ve announced a release date for this release: January 11, 2011 (or 1/11/11, for all you people who like to see dates that are all of the same number). But if you can’t wait that long, they’ve got a 7″ coming out called Chautauqua County, and they’ll have 3 release show dates. Then, after that, they’ll be touring the East Coast, coinciding with Pebbles‘ release date. Nice!
Check out all the tour dates here.
So this is a little random. Grace Jeanette, our country’s next 10 year old aspiring train wreck, has done a unique cover of “Na Na Na” off My Chemical Ramance‘s upcoming album. According to Grace’s youtube page she “aspires to be the first “tween indie – alt Disney” pop star.” Something tells me there’s an […]
So this is a little random. Grace Jeanette, our country’s next 10 year old aspiring train wreck, has done a unique cover of “Na Na Na” off My Chemical Ramance‘s upcoming album. According to Grace’s youtube page she “aspires to be the first “tween indie – alt Disney” pop star.” Something tells me there’s an ambitious stage mom behind the curtains here…
Check out the video here and let us know what you think in our new polling feature which, yes, I’m currently obsessed with.
“Danger Days…” is set to drop November 22nd on Reprise Records. This album is the band’s first studio album in four years.
Alkaline Trio are a band old enough to be my little brother and sometimes it has felt like they were. I mean, in a way where I could give them a poke here and there but at the end of the day, I’d still love them. They’ve got seven studio albums to their name, a […]
Alkaline Trio are a band old enough to be my little brother and sometimes it has felt like they were. I mean, in a way where I could give them a poke here and there but at the end of the day, I’d still love them. They’ve got seven studio albums to their name, a million air miles and a creative spark to their work that makes it never grow old. Before they head to Australia as part of the No Sleep Til festival, the band have been taking a little break, recharging their batteries and generally getting things done. Bassist, Dan Andriano spoke to me from his home in Florida about “This Addiction” and the band who has always tried to get their problems off their chest. “Better out than in” appears to be the motto and a good one at that.
Read the full interview here.