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Bloody Good, Mates! 3 Inches of Blood Exclusively Confirm New Material
Posted in Exclusives, Interviews, News with tags 3 Inches of Blood, Cam Pipes on 01/04/2025 by Kurt OrzeckEP Premiere: Paper Mice’s ‘Neurotic City’
Posted in Exclusives with tags Paper Mice, Three One G on 12/04/2024 by Kurt OrzeckBadass label Three One G gave New Noise the honors of streaming the new EP by Paper Mice, Neurotic City, before any other outlet. Chiggity-chiggity-check-it-out here:
Exclusive Song Premiere: Trauma Kit’s ‘Better’
Posted in Exclusives with tags Trauma Kit on 02/09/2024 by Kurt Orzeck
Excitement is building for the full-length debut by Trauma Kit, an experimental-hardcore-rock band from Boise that we introduced you to last year. Train Wrecks Take Time will come courtesy of bassist Shadrach Tuck’s Mishap Records label on February 23 — but in the meantime, we bring you the exclusive premiere of album track “Better” today.
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Exclusive: Cloak Part Ways With Season of Mist; New Label Deal Imminent
Posted in Exclusives with tags Cloak, Scott Taysom, Season of Mist on 12/04/2023 by Kurt Orzeck
Cloak, Atlanta’s hottest black-metal band and the quartet responsible of one of the year’s highest quality rock records, Black Flame Eternal, has parted ways with Season of Mist, Cloak confirmed to The Bad Penny on Monday.
The midnight marauders told disclosed in a conversation Monday morning that their deal with Season of Mist recently ended but that they are already ready to ink a new deal. The furious — and, surprisingly, hoodless — quartet said it expects to announce its new label home by year’s end.
Season of Mist signed Cloak in October 2016, and the label released the fiery foursome’s debut, To Venomous Depths, the following year. Season of Mist also released 2019’s The Burning Dawn and, last May, the teeth-gnashing Black Flame Eternal.
[Go here to read Cloak frontman Scott Taysom’s breakdown of Black Flame Eternal with the Bad Penny.]
Cloak continues to tour heavily behind the well-received record, having started the band’s current trek in late August.
Perhaps as a farewell gift, Season of Mist just released Cloak’s covering of “Black Dream” by Samhain on Halloween Day.
Exclusive Premiere: of persephone’s ‘Rainbow Road’
Posted in Exclusives, MP3s with tags of persephone on 03/20/2023 by Kurt Orzeck
At the end of a rainbow lies a pot of gold. So legend goes, at least. What we can say with certainty is that “Rainbow Road,” a rousing new song by siren rock project of persephone, sounds downright golden.
With chanteuse Sarah Rae’s high-octave vocals leading the charge, the song is a galloping adventure into fuzzy, upbeat indie pop. It’s a dreamy excursion that, at less than two and a half minutes, leaves you wishing the track wouldn’t end. The Bad Penny is honored to exclusively premiere it today.
Continue readingVideo Premiere: Four Star Riot’s ‘Adding It Up’
Posted in Exclusives with tags Four Star Riot on 02/03/2023 by Kurt Orzeck
Twenty years after their formation, Tampa, Florida’s Four Star Riot are rising up again with the infectious new song and hypnotic video for “Adding It Up.” Even more exciting, it’s the harbinger of things to come, with Four Star Riot announcing that they’ll deliver a new album in the spring.
“Adding It Up” swirls together the strongest aspects of the alt-rock band: its catchy rhythms, jangly melody and laid-back style. The song is the best anthem for indie-rock sleepyheads so far this year. The melancholic, narcotic song is particular well-suited for fans of Ride and Brian Jonestown Massacre.
“It’s a culmination of our influences over the years,” frontman Steve Alex told the Bad Penny of the new track.
Continue readingExclusive Video Premiere: ‘Thinkin’ About You’ by Joshua Lewis
Posted in Exclusives with tags Joshua Lewis on 10/25/2022 by Kurt Orzeck
For 10 years, music engineer Joshua Lewis twiddled the knobs in recording studios, helping Boise artists bring their songs to fruition. But last year, he finally walked around the soundboards and began recording his own music.
Continue readingExclusive: Cloak Finish Recording ‘Faster, Harder’ Third LP; Debut New Song Live
Posted in Exclusives, Interviews with tags Bewitcher, Cloak on 06/30/2022 by Kurt Orzeck
Summer generally leads to an absence of black in Boise. Black clothes are stowed away in closets. Black cars stay parked in garages. Even the black of night lasts fewer than eight hours. But tonight, two of the most hottest heavy-metal bands currently on tour in the U.S. — Cloak and Bewitcher — will paint the city black. Their co-headlining gig at underground venue the Shredder on Friday night is poised to be the most potent metal concert in Boise for the next two months.
Continue readingExclusive: Monster Magnet Drop Off Psycho Fest 2022; Satyricon’s Status Unknown
Posted in Exclusives with tags Heavy metal festival, Monster Magnet, Psycho Las Vegas, Psycho Unlimited, Satyricon, Wiegedood on 06/03/2022 by Kurt Orzeck
Since relocating from the City of Angels to Sin City in 2016, Psycho Las Vegas continues to be the premier crossover music festival in the U.S., attracting heavy-rock bands, indie-pop luminaries, punk legends, rap royalty and even a few DJs for good measure. Levitate and Oblivion Access (both held in Austin) are close behind Psycho but aren’t yet running the asylum, so to speak.
Continue readingExclusive: Orchestra Gold Returning to Boise for Great Garden Escape
Posted in Exclusives, Interviews with tags Great Garden Escape, Idaho Botanical Garden, Orchestra Gold, psychedelic rock on 05/10/2022 by Kurt Orzeck
African psychedelic-rock combo and Treefort Festival 2021 participants Orchestra Gold are coming back to Boise next month for a plum gig at the Idaho Botanical Garden’s Great Garden Escape series, the Bad Penny exclusively announces today. The concert will take place June 30 at the Meditation Garden, as part of a lineup that also includes Afrosonics and Hillfolk Noir.
Led by Malian singer and dancer Mariam Diakité and guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Erich Huffaker, the Oakland-based Orchestra Gold channel old-school folkloric music from Mali. More specifically, the band describes its sound “horn-driven rhythmic ‘orchestra’ music from ’70s-era Mali, West Africa, with a contemporary twist: analog psych-rock fused with Malian folklore.”
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