Take a brief respite from the horrors that are unfolding across the crumbling United States and join Knotfest.com for a conversation with 3 Inches of Blood’s Cam Pipes. We discuss his fantasy-metal band getting back together, Dungeons & Dragons, writing long-awaited new material and much more.
“At Fly PR, I’ve run a robust internship program since 2005, helping women, LGBTQ and minorities gain access to music and entertainment industry career opportunities,” Ilka Pardiñas says. Find out more about what drives the indie-rock public-relations pioneer and what she has in store for the future in my profile on her Fly PR firm in the latest print edition of New Noise.
“We have a show on January 31 at DC9, and it’s going to be a big one,” Glosser vocalist Riley Fanning told The Bad Penny early last month. She wasn’t kidding. The dreamy, indie-pop pride of Washington, D.C. are formally debuting their majestic new EP, Angel Dust (all four songs are presented in this post), tonight at the city’s hipster hotspot. (Yeah, it technically came out in November, but you know what they say about nitpickers: Just like snitches, they get stitches too.)
Tonight’s show effectively kicks off the next chapter in Glosser’s career after their 2023 record Downer turned out to be one of the year’s most universally beloved indie records, warranting a deluxe edition that dropped a year ago. Fanning and her partner, instrumentalist Corbin Sheehan, chatted us up about the band’s past, present and future—and there’s no better time to unveil the conversation as Glosser turn the page.
Continue readingWhat’s the secret to a happy marriage … especially when you’re in a band with your spouse? For Joshua Tree desert-folk duo The Kearns Family, it’s Paco, a trusty 10-year-old pooch who is a Jack Russell and Basenji mix (they’re pretty sure). Meet the gang and learn about Paco’s antics in the latest edition of Pet Sounds on New Noise.
In this new interview for New Noise, outspoken Local H main man Scott Lucas recalls his last interactions with fellow sardonic Chicago music legend Steve Albini and much more as the band announces a 30th anniversary reissue of its debut record, Ham Fisted.
“Everything’s changed for the worse,” Harakiri for the Sky cofounder and vocalist Michael “JJ” V. Wahntraum says. “I don’t think that the world takes a good turn for now.”
Read those and more uplifting prognostications from Austria’s best band in this immersive and intense feature on Knotfest.com.
“Technology is running away from us, and we aren’t talking to each other about the implications.” Read those and many more words of wisdom from Chris T. Hammer, frontman of Atlanta metal band Misanthropic Aggression, in this revelatory interview via New Noise.
We’ve encountered dozens of animal lovers who are also musicians over the course of our Pet Sounds series for New Noise. But in this latest edition, you’ll discover that few featured artists in our program have as deep-rooted a love for his dogs as Atlanta-via-Pensacola Americana singer/songwriter Don Aaron Mixon.
Read my Music Connection interview with East Bay hardcore heavyweights Bite the Hand about their signing to esteemed punk label Wiretap Records in the latest print edition of the magazine or online here.
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