Melodic black-metal miscreants Necrofier are firing on all cylinders once again. The indefatigable Houston heathens just hit the road, but they’re already plotting a new record to be released in summer 2025. Go to New Noise to read the scoop straight from the horse’s mouth.
With Portland psych-os Hippie Death Cult touring hard this summer, we bring you a previously unpublished interview in which the band revealed their surprising affection for a certain hip-hop collective.
On her fourth solo outing under the ambient-slowcore moniker, Madeline Johnston reaches a state of enlightenment as she sounds totally confident about her identity as an artist. Read my review of Midwife’s No Depression in Heaven courtesy of FLOOD.
Late last month, Norwegian black-metal act Mork announced they’ve put the finishing touches on their seventh album, Syv (Peaceville), and that it’ll arrive on September 20. The occasion will be extra-sweet for project originator Thomas Eriksen, as this year marks two decades since he spawned his unsettling, corpse-paint-obsessed endeavor. Go to The Big Takeover to read my interview with Eriksen shortly before he brought Mork to the United States for the first time five years ago, and the chance encounter he had with Megadeth drummer Dirk Verbeuren in Las Vegas.
Reprehensibly, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine—which began two months before our first interview with black-metal ingénue Ovfrost—is still raging. The fearless musician spoke openly about his opposition to his country’s actions abroad during a recent, wide-ranging conversation. Go here to read the full New Noise conversation with a truly brave artist.
Prosthetic Records death-metal posse Undeath are about to drop their third album and shove off for an extensive tour. Go to New Noise for my previously unreleased interview from a couple of years ago in which vocalist Alex Jones of the Rochester, New York, crew opens up about struggling with mental health and reveals what Undeath have learned about being a band since the last time around.
In honor of Wild God, the just-released 18th album by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, New Noise published a previously unreleased and unabridged interview I conducted with the Australian rock legend/bookworm more than 20 years ago. Go here to read our lengthy conversation, which shows a lighter side of the sullen superstar.
With the November election only 64 days away, incendiary discussions about politics, the role of government and the future of the United States are permeating—make that dominating—the lives of practically every American. As we watch the nauseating campaign spectacles unfold (and try not to blow chunks when vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance gets hold of a microphone), some of us long for the days when mayonnaise-on-white-toast automaton Mike Pence ran in the same capacity (and lost) on the Republican ticket four years ago. In honor of the former Indiana governor, here’s a little piece of trivia about Pence: What is his favorite song of all time?
Continue readingSunny Day Real Estate, Seattle’s blasphemously overlooked indie-rock trailblazers who split up but then reunited multiple times, are stepping out for another tour in just a few weeks. In honor of their return, bounce over to New Noise to read my out-of-print interview with SDRE frontman Jeremy Enigk from June 2009.
With As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again, frontman Colin Meloy and his merry pranksters prove that all is not lost. Go to Music Connection for my full review of the Decemberists’ As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again.
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