Writing about music is often an intimidating proposition. And we all make mistakes (probably no one more than yours truly). But are we at the point where even a quick Wikipedia search is asking too much?
Faith No More is — or was, depending on whether they reunite again — not an ” ’80s band,” despite the egregiously sloppy headline to this post. To wit …
Continue readingRead this new interview in which vocalist for Portugal’s Gaerea explains to New Noise how the mysterious band is transcending the stifling “black metal” tag and expanding its sound by incorporating even more unorthodox sounds.
This curveball in our ongoing Pet Sounds series is brought to us and you by Glass Noose, an avant-garde/emo project whose leader is Pittsburgh musician Tristan Zemtseff. His coterie of pets is so wild … well, you gotta read this New Noise post to believe it.
See what legendary artist Eugene S. Robinson had to tell FLOOD about the latest record from his experimental, genre-bashing project Buñuel.
The lead guitarist of everyone’s least favorite band, Gwar, bemoans their “worst interview ever” in this forgettably filthy interview with New Noise. The pleasure was all ours.
Iotunn founder/composer/guitarist Jesper Gräs touched base with New Noise last month to answer some of our most pressing questions about the band and its virtuous, magnificent opus Kinship.
It’s time to roll out the red carpet, Boise: Special attraction Kate Nash, an English singer/songwriter who delivered her latest album over the summer on trailblazing indie record label Kill Rock Stars, makes her debut at Neurolux on Saturday night.
“I’m excited to be touring North America for the first time in six years,” Nash told The Bad Penny earlier this month. “I just signed with an American label and new agents here, so we wanted to try to cover some more ground and get to a new city that I haven’t toured in before!”
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Cryptopsy Flo Mounier, quite possibly the best tech-metal drummer of all time, demanded that the long-running band link up with Season of Mist for the final chapter in the Canadian group’s career, vocalist Matt McGachy revealed to me for a Music Connection profile published over the summer.
Read my scoop here.
No less than Scott Lucas, mastermind of long-lasting Chicago rockers Local H, drops by New Noise to participate in our ongoing series of musicians and their best friends.
Check out the frontman of German blackened death-metal band The Spirit chatting with New Noise about the nuts and bolts of his band’s new record, Songs Against Humanity.
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