As a fresh-cheeked posse with pedigree, musical talent, creativity and sensitivity in tow, anyone would be a fool not to bet on Lifeguard, Matador Records’ newest hope. They don’t seem to know it, but riveting success appears to be their destiny. Read my Treble feature on the band for confirmation that you should take this post-rock project to the bank.
Boldly going where precious few artists—Brainiac, Racebannon, HORSE the Band—have dared go before, screamo brain-scramblers For Your Health prove that ingesting berserk art-noise does a body good. Except for the occasional bout of heartburn, that is. Vocalist Hayden Rodriguez gets candid about the trials and tribulations that preceded the screamo band’s newly released debut for 3DOT, This Bitter Garden. Read the whole shebang via FLOOD.
Feast your eyes and ears on brand-new post-groove metal newcomers Noumenia in their first-ever interview, which I recently conducted with the entire band after its signing to Eclipse Records. The story is featured in the July issue of Music Connection and is also available online here.
Malevolence are a rare metal quintet that have four of its five founding members still in the group. Thanks to their deep friendships with one another, the band born in Sheffield, United Kingdom, have the gift of an underlying groundwork of trust that eludes the majority of bands, regardless of genre. Read my cover story on Malevolence in the latest issue of New Noise, or check out the feature online here.
Birth (Defects) vocalist Sean Gray, guitarist Rob Savillo and electronics handler Joey Generic give New Noise a rather riotous, hourlong conversation as the Baltimore band’s career is now over. Read my feature on the reigning crust punk in the latest edition of New Noise magazine; or here, if you wanna be all, like, “Man, I ain’t even heard of twenty … what did you call them, homie, “Days”?
It appears that Kyuss, the early stoner-rock band co-founded by guitarist/vocalist Josh Homme (also of Queens of the Stone Age), may be finally ready to reassemble his earlier project. Somewhere in the Palm Desert region, surely. Sitting in a circle, of course. That way, the group can maximally aerate the moon by channeling unholy reservoirs of toxins into the tractor bea- …
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Read much more from my FLOOD feature on the eternal desert rock hounds. Meanwhile, in related news, The Bad Penny recently caught up with Oliveri, to chat about: You guessed it, all things Oliveri. That includes reminiscing on his days with Kyuss. Stay tuned for that big mug of slow joe coming from somewhere in … eh, let’s play it safe and keep it at “future” for now.
John Dieterich, guitarist for one of the most respected, popular, and experimental indie-rock bands ever, is just like the rest of us when it comes to opening his heart to, and taking care of, animals. Shortly after the April release of Noble and Godlike in Ruin, the 20th studio album by Deerhoof, he gushed to New Noise about his unconditional love for his dog, Ida Strawberry.
Chicago trio Pixel Grip goes deep on the clutch of songs they treasure most upon the release of their third, no-holds-barred studio album, Percepticide: The Death of Reality. Read what the band disclosed to FLOOD.
With the film Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted now streaming, FLOOD spoke with the soul legend about some of the most memorable moments in the career of an artist who’s seen it all, including a missed opportunity to collaborate with Aretha Franklin due to nervousness.
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