Chicago labels Thrill Jockey and Antiopic, with help from Front Porch Productions and a wealth of talent, are making it easy for music lovers to donate to the relief effort in Japan with the release of Benefit For The Recovery In Japan. This massive, 64-track … Read More →
Dave Heumann, singer, guitarist, and main songwriter for Arbouretum, has spent time as a backing member of Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, and his songs are certainly connected to a similar folk rock sound. But where Will Oldham’s project has, over the years, dug deeper into the … Read More →
“Nightrain”–track three from the only 80s hard rock record to give AC/DC’s Back In Black a run for its rock ‘n’ roll money, the Guns ‘n’ Roses 1987 debut, Appetite For Destruction–rattles the speakers of our heroes’ getaway car as it peels out of the parking … Read More →
Davila 666 is a group of six badass Puerto Rican rockers who clearly enjoy the hell out of what they do. And when the band tapped the keg for their relentless garage pop party at Trailer Space on the closing Saturday of SXSW, the crowd … Read More →
Red Fang. Murder The Mountains.
Heads up, heshers, your favorite new headbangin’ helpin’ of heavy metal is about to drop courtesy of Portland rockers Red Fang. With its sophomore effort, Murder The Mountains, Red Fang bring together elements of late-eighties thrash/metal and classic stoner-rock riffs, filter the sound through a desert-rock haze … Read More →