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.
On their latest album, Burn Cruise (Max Trax), Leafblower delivers its riffs with frequency and ferocity. But this time around, they have an objective in mind: to ensure that each song Leafblower presents (excluding the brief banjo outro reminiscent of Panopticon) rocks hard. Read my Music Connection review of Burn Cruise.
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.
Private eyes are stereotyped for sticking close to, but not scaring off, their target until the person reaches their ultimate destination. Similarly, The Bad Penny continues to monitor the activity of supergloom as the shoegazing LA newcomers inch closer to realizing their first full-length record.
Earlier this year–on April Fools Day, to be precise–we introduced you to supergloom around the time they released “sideFX,” the first single from their still-untitled debut. The heady, cleverly named song exemplified what would become their maiden release. We touched base with supergloom toward the end of April, at which point they let The Bad Penny exclusively unveil a new song, “Kingfisher.”
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Gruesome’s new rip-roaring record, Silent Echoes, so thoroughly beats the listener into submission that Merriam-Webster might have to devise a term far more potent than “bludgeoning,” “battering” or “abusively punishing.” Read my review of the record courtesy of Post-Trash.
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.
Read my review of Laura Jane Grace & In the Trauma Tropes’ new record, Adventure Club, in the July issue of Music Connection or on its website.
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.
Rather than replicate the early sound of their ’90s-era triumph, Fixation on a Co-Worker, Deadguy opts for hooks, guitar texture and a throwback production sound that digs deep on their first studio record in three decades. Read my Treble review.
The best compliment a young band can receive comes in the form of a query delivered with a tone of disbelief: “Is this really your first record?” Ossuary, with their searing Abhorrent Worship, deserve such a response—and I bestow them with it in my latest contribution to Post-Trash.
The Bad Penny (beta) 