Pallbearer fans are still biting their fingernails in anticipation of the heralded doom band’s next album, which they finished recording way back in June. The Arkansas group told us a little bit about the record last year — but to tide over Pallbearer’s devotees who are continuing to be patient, here’s a previously unpublished conversation, published on New Noise, in which they share entertaining stories about life on the road.
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Pallbearer Share Wild Tour Stories As New LP Looms
Posted in Interviews with tags Pallbearer on 01/24/2024 by Kurt OrzeckHelga Frontwoman Transcends The Hell Of Isolation
Posted in Interviews with tags Helga on 01/23/2024 by Kurt OrzeckCheck out my touching, intimate interview with shoegaze/pop/folk/doom-metal newcomers Helga in this feature courtesy of New Noise.
Belgium’s Carnation Put the Petal to the Metal
Posted in Interviews with tags Carnation, Season of Mist on 01/23/2024 by Kurt OrzeckCarnation vocalist Simon Duson may be Belgian, but he doesn’t waffle when asked tough questions about his old-school death-metal band. Check out my full piece on New Noise.
Sweeping Promises: Promise Keepers
Posted in Interviews with tags Sweeping Promises on 12/23/2023 by Kurt OrzeckPick up the latest issue of The Big Takeover, which features my interview with Sub Pop indie-rock duo Sweeping Promises.
Joe Steinhardt Talks 20 Years of Don Giovanni Records
Posted in Interviews with tags Don Giovanni, Joe Steinhardt, Screaming Females on 10/27/2023 by Kurt OrzeckGet to know the history of Don Giovanni Records and its orange-loving owner, Joe Steinhardt, in my recent New Noise interview with the man himself.
Sal Ellington of Rebuilder Talks ‘Local Support’
Posted in Interviews with tags Rebuilder on 10/25/2023 by Kurt Orzeck
The Breeders’ ‘Last Splash’ (30th Anniversary Edition): Two Cent Review
Posted in Interviews with tags Breeders, Dave Grohl, Frank Black, Kim Deal, Pixies on 09/25/2023 by Kurt Orzeck
Read my FLOOD review of the latest reissue of the Breeders’ Last Splash, in which the flood of anniversary reissue albums is also discussed.
Trauma Kit: Flipside Fest Pick of the Day
Posted in Interviews on 09/23/2023 by Kurt Orzeck
The second annual Flipside Fest, staged just outside Boise, began in magnificent form on Friday, with an afternoon wave of cool air giving way to an evening filled with clear skies and music courtesy of Australian rockers Babe Rainbow and Virginia-based electronic musician George Clanton. Saturday’s forecast — a welcome relief from the muddy start to Treefort Music Fest in late March — calls for even more beautiful weather … with a touch of gnarly experimental-hardcore-rock courtesy of Boise’s own Trauma Kit.
One of the city’s strongest young bands regardless of genre, Trauma Kit are slated for a plum time slot at 8 p.m. at Push & Pour, after which Flipside Fest 2023 headliners the Walkmen will grace the main stage. Trauma Kit’s latest close-up comes mere weeks after they opened for red-hot metal band Portrayal of Guilt and then Seattle punks So Pitted.
“We were like kinds in a candy store,” Trauma Kit bassist Shadrach Tuck recently told The Bad Penny about the shows.
Continue readingBaroness Break Down Their Sludgy New LP ‘Stone’ Track by Track
Posted in Interviews with tags Baroness on 09/15/2023 by Kurt Orzeck
Now two decades deep into their career, Baroness have the shrapnel to show for it. Anyone with fleeting familiarity of the stoner-metal band knows of the horrific 2012 bus crash that injured four of its members and almost tolled the death knell for the band. But more than 10 years later, the incident appears to be—if not a distant memory—a road bump in the timeline of a band that’s never released a poorly received album. The frequent comparisons to fellow Georgians Mastodon that Baroness drew early in their career fell by the wayside, especially after the crash. The band led by John Baizley cemented its own status as a hard-hitting but redemptive and invigorating group that brought broad strokes of color and flair to a sludgy subgenre.
For my latest FLOOD feature, Baroness members Nick Jost and Sebastian Thomson walk us through the Savannah, Georgia–based metal group’s sixth full-length.
If Not Us Then Who: Power Trip Vocalist Riley Gale’s Righteous Legacy
Posted in Interviews on 08/29/2023 by Kurt Orzeck
Check out my recent FLOOD feature on dearly departed vocalist Riley Gale of Power Trip and what friends, family and fans learned about him after Gale tragically died three years ago. Riley’s father Brandon and board members of Dallas Hope Charities reflect on the late musician’s deep humanity and prolific social justice efforts.
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