“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.
Experimental quartet Open Head piece together snippets of discordant, angular, and off-tune notes to create a tapestry paying tribute to NYC’s no wave and noise-rock scenes on their new record, What Is Success (Wharf Cat). Read my full review on FLOOD‘s website.
“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.
Mapped out in accordance with the five stages of grief, LA-based artist zzzahara’s third LP serves as an instruction manual on how to cope while also expanding their bedroom-pop palette. Read my full review on FLOOD‘s website.
These brief video clips comprise a simple, terrifying tribute to one of America’s greatest auteurs: David Lynch, who died January 15 at 78 years old. Partially raised in Idaho, Lynch depicted nightmares onscreen with such fear-inducing flair that he ensured viewers had many more of them after watching his films.
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After one of the worst weeks in American history, The Bad Penny just learned a smidgen of good news that may boost your spirits as much as it did ours: Jesus Lizard frontman David Yow, who resides in one the areas hardest-hit by the Southern California fires, did not lose his home.
Someone make this guy a boilermaker.
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.
C’mon, they really aren’t that bad—aren’t they?
Metal is mainstream, no doubt about it. But along with the genre expanding its tent, it naturally follows that some artists attracted to the sound find themselves to be square pegs trying to fit into round holes, community-wise. There may be no better example than hyper-talented collective Crippled Black Phoenix from the United Kingdom. Read what they had to say about fitting in, in this candid interview for New Noise.
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