The fine fellas in Bossfight have taken an okay idea (the lyric video) and combined it with something pretty awesome (comic books) and the end result is this really sweet comic book lyric video (surprise) featuring art from Marvel artist FranzDG. “Green” is off of Bossfight’s latest album Daze of Gray. You can check out Daze here and the […]
The fine fellas in Bossfight have taken an okay idea (the lyric video) and combined it with something pretty awesome (comic books) and the end result is this really sweet comic book lyric video (surprise) featuring art from Marvel artist FranzDG.
“Green” is off of Bossfight’s latest album Daze of Gray.
You can check out Daze here and the video for “Green” below.
There are some bands that you might not be otherwise familiar yet, but then you see them live and you totally get what all the fuss is about, and that said performances just kinda stick with you forever. Clutch, for me is one of those bands. We’re rounding the corner of two decades since the […]
There are some bands that you might not be otherwise familiar yet, but then you see them live and you totally get what all the fuss is about, and that said performances just kinda stick with you forever. Clutch, for me is one of those bands. We’re rounding the corner of two decades since the very first time I saw the Maryland-based quartet (at the 1997 HempFest in Boston alongside Tree and Sam Black Church, if you’re interested), and the second they took the stage at Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel in Providence, I was immediately transported right back to that place in time.
Now a lot has obviously changed over the twenty years since (not the least of which are hair color and waistlines, and I’m specifically referencing myself). Clutch’s sound has evolved to become a little dirtier and swampier; they’ve always been a solid live band, but now they’re downright explosive. were a solid live band back then; they now qualify as a premier live act. Drummer Jean-Paul Gaster serves as the anchor to the whole ship. Gaster plays loud, explosive style but has achieved a certain level of transcendence at his craft that he almost looks effortless; like Lebron James toying with Serge Ibaka and the Raptors in the last round of the NBA Playoffs. Tim Sult (lead guitar) and Dan Maines (bass) stay rooted to their respective sides of the stage, leaving supremely dynamic frontman Neil Fallon to roam the stage like an animal stalking his prey. Fallon is a frontman’s frontman and plays the role brilliantly, at times oscillating in performance appearance from motivational speaker to manic cult leader to all out banshee. The band launched into their sixteen song main set with “Crucial Velocity” from 2012’s Earth Rocker, while the bulk of the remainder of the main set drew primarily from their most recent album, Psychic Warfare. Longtime crowd favorite “Electric Worry” (you know, the “vamonos, vamonos” song) kicked off the two-song encore in frenzy-like fashion.
Lucero provide direct support on this leg of the Psychic Warfare tour, a bit of a change of pace sandwiched in between Clutch and “warlock rock” openers The Sword (whom I admittedly didn’t shoot or catch much of). As a longtime fan, this marked the first time I’d caught the Memphis-based quintet in an opening role after having seen them headline venues equal to (or even somewhat larger than) Lupo’s. The abbreviated (50 minutes) set in front of a Clutch crowd (and let’s be honest…Clutch fans are CLUTCH FANS) meant that Ben Nichols and the boys eschewed the acoustic portion that’s crept increasingly into their sets in recent years and focused mostly on uptempo tracks. “Can’t You Hear Them Howl,” the lead single to the band’s last album (2015’s All A Man Should Do), kicked off the set, and from that point forward the band forged ahead in all business style, covering such live staples as “On MY Way Downtown,” “Nights Like These,” “I Can Get Us Out Of Here Tonight” and “Here At The Starlite” in the process. A personal highlight was Nichols’ unaccompanied (unless you count a double shot of whiskey as an accompaniment, which I guess you could), a cappella rendition of his track “Last Pale Light In The West,” from his solo EP of the same name. Nichols joked that tracks like those that he based on Cormac McCarthy’s historical novel Blood Meridian were about all he could come up with for lullabies for his soon-to-be year-old daughter. Nichols was then rejoined by the rest of the band (Brian Venable on lead guitar, Roy Berry on drums, a particularly unanimated John Stubblefield on bass, and the inimitable Rick Steff on keys/accordion) for a rousing version of show-closing staple “The Last Song.” I mentioned before that Clutch fans are “CLUTCH FANS,” and that can ultimately be said for Lucero fans as well. They may have been largely outnumbered in this near-capacity crowd of around a thousandish, but they (we) were certainly a vocal minority.
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Hartford, Connecticut’s Sorority Noise have announced a run of headline shows in Australia alongside their appearance at Yours & Owls Festival in Wollongong, NSW. You can find the tour poster, dates, and locations below. Sorority Noise will be touring in support of their latest album release, “You’re Not As _____ As You Think,” which was released on […]
Hartford, Connecticut’s Sorority Noise have announced a run of headline shows in Australia alongside their appearance at Yours & Owls Festival in Wollongong, NSW. You can find the tour poster, dates, and locations below.
Sorority Noise will be touring in support of their latest album release, “You’re Not As _____ As You Think,” which was released on March 17 through Triple Crown Records.
Close the doors, secure the breakables, and prepare to crank the speakers. UK hardcore punks Grand Collapse are premiering a stream of their new album Along The Dew today and we’re pumped to be the ones to bring it to you. 11 tracks of fist pumping, furniture smashing fury that you can stream below. Along The Dew will be released […]
Close the doors, secure the breakables, and prepare to crank the speakers. UK hardcore punks Grand Collapse are premiering a stream of their new album Along The Dew today and we’re pumped to be the ones to bring it to you. 11 tracks of fist pumping, furniture smashing fury that you can stream below.
Along The Dew will be released on May 19th through TNS Records. Pre-order that bad boy right here.
This is band’s second LP, following 2014’s Far From The Callous Crowd.
Wyoming pop-punk veterans The Lillingtons have premiered a music video for a brand new track, titled “Rubber Room.” You can watch it below. “Rubber Room” is taken from the band’s upcoming EP “Project 313,” set to release on June 9 via Red Scare Industries. This will be their first new release since 2006’s The Too Late Show.
Wyoming pop-punk veterans The Lillingtons have premiered a music video for a brand new track, titled “Rubber Room.” You can watch it below.
“Rubber Room” is taken from the band’s upcoming EP “Project 313,” set to release on June 9 via Red Scare Industries. This will be their first new release since 2006’s The Too Late Show.
Italian skate punks X-State Ride have sadly announced they will be calling it quits after 15 years. The band posted a statement on their Facebook: “Hello dudes and dudettes, after more than 15 years of touring, making music, making awesome friends across Europe and beyond, we decided to put the word end to X-state ride. Things […]
Italian skate punks X-State Ride have sadly announced they will be calling it quits after 15 years.
The band posted a statement on their Facebook: “Hello dudes and dudettes, after more than 15 years of touring, making music, making awesome friends across Europe and beyond, we decided to put the word end to X-state ride. Things and priorities always change in everyone’s life so to preserve the spirit that we had when we started the band in the first place we are going to stop for good. We just wanted to say thank you to the people that always believed in us and constantly supported the riders through the years. We got 5 more last shows which are listed below so make sure to hit one to party on with us once again!”
More information on their final shows can be found below.
French melodic punks Bare Teeth are currently streaming their debut 8 track EP, which is titled “First The Town, Then The World.” You can listen to it below. Their EP is set for release on May 19, and will be released through various labels depending on the region: Lockjaw Records (UK), Less Talk More Records […]
French melodic punks Bare Teeth are currently streaming their debut 8 track EP, which is titled “First The Town, Then The World.” You can listen to it below.
Their EP is set for release on May 19, and will be released through various labels depending on the region: Lockjaw Records (UK), Less Talk More Records (Belgium), Morningwood Records (Netherlands), Melodic Punk Style (Poland), No Reason Records (Italy), Don’t Trust The Hype (France), 59SRS (Russia), Far Channel Records (Japan), Pro Rawk Records (USA), Realize Records (South Korea) and Sirkel Pit (Switzerland).
Mutoid Man (featuring Ben Koller of Converge and Stephen Brodsky of Cave In) are streaming a new track titled “Bandages,” you can listen to it below. The track comes from the band’s upcoming album, titled “War Moan,” which is set to drop on June 2 via Sargent House Records.
Mutoid Man (featuring Ben Koller of Converge and Stephen Brodsky of Cave In) are streaming a new track titled “Bandages,” you can listen to it below.
The track comes from the band’s upcoming album, titled “War Moan,” which is set to drop on June 2 via Sargent House Records.
Scranton, Pennsylvania’s Tigers Jaw are currently streaming the latest track from their upcoming full length, titled “Escape Plan.” You can listen to it below. “Escape Plan” is taken from the band’s upcoming album, which will be titled “spin.” The album is set to drop on May 19 via Will Yip’s Black Cement Records. “spin” marks […]
Scranton, Pennsylvania’s Tigers Jaw are currently streaming the latest track from their upcoming full length, titled “Escape Plan.” You can listen to it below.
“Escape Plan” is taken from the band’s upcoming album, which will be titled “spin.” The album is set to drop on May 19 via Will Yip’s Black Cement Records. “spin” marks the band’s first release since 2014’s “Charmer,” which was released by Run For Cover Records.
Japanese melodic hardcore act waterweed have premiered a music video for their new track “Boring Talk.” You can watch it below. “Boring Talk” comes from the band’s recent second album release, titled “Brightest.” The album was released on April 5th via Maximum-10 Records. The track features guest vocals from Teppei, vocalist from FIVE NO RISK.
Japanese melodic hardcore act waterweed have premiered a music video for their new track “Boring Talk.” You can watch it below.
“Boring Talk” comes from the band’s recent second album release, titled “Brightest.” The album was released on April 5th via Maximum-10 Records. The track features guest vocals from Teppei, vocalist from FIVE NO RISK.