Iggy Pop injured on stage during London show
Iggy Pop managed to injure his leg during a recent performance with his fellow proto-punk legends, the Stooges, in London.
The 61-year-old Pop was climbing a speaker stack and reportedly fell "awkwardly." Pop "seriously" injured his leg, but went on and completed the set before any treatment occurred.
The band was playing London’s...
Bayside announces track listing
Bayside has unveiled the track listing for their forthcoming fourth full-length, Shudder.
The disc is due out September 30 via Victory, folllowing up 2007’s The Walking Wounded.
The band will be supporting the release with an extensive headlining tour.
Shudder track listing:
1. Boy
2. The Ghost Of St Valentine
3. No...
Energy cancels tour, posts new song online
Due to some unfortunate health concerns, Energy have been forced to cancel their current tour with Know The Score and Meantime. An e-mail from the band reads:
Due to reasons beyond our control, Energy had to cancel the remainder
of our current U.S. Tour. Our drummer Justin developed tendonitis in
his wrist, and...
Magnetic Morning
Magnetic Morning Magnetic Morning EP [4/5]
“Don’t Go To Dream State,” one track on this self-titled EP warns. Then it heads straight there, like most of the cuts on this haunting five-song debut from Swervedriver frontman Adam Franklin and Interpol drummer Sam Fogarino. Forsaking the loud, overdriven guitars that once defined the more explosive side...
Gregor Samsa
Gregor Samsa Rest [3.5/5]
You’d expect a band with such a literarily charged name to be comfortable with the concept of Metamorphosis-although the transformative process Rest’s nine disarming, beguiling songs readily call to mind is not some nightmare of helplessness, but rather the more mundane horror of a movement from life to death. It’s no...
In Remembrance: Replacements drummer Steve Foley (1959-2008)
Steve Foley, who drummed for 1980s alt-rock/punk heroes the Replacements, has died at 49. Foley accidentally overdosed on prescription medication.
Foley joined the band in 1990, replacing original drummer Chris Mars. Though he appeared on no official Replacements full-lengths, he toured with the band until their original final show on the fourth of July,...
36 Crazyfists outline touring plans (Walls Of Jericho; Trivium; In Flames)
36 Crazyfists have outlined their touring plans through early December.
Their hectic schedule will see them on the following tours: Walls Of Jericho / It Dies Today / Sea Of Treachery / Flatline; Straight Line Switch; Trivium / All That Remains / The Human Abstract; and finally, In Flames / All That Remains /...
Crime In Stereo post new-ish song
Crime In Stereo has added "Everywhere And All The Time" to their MySpace player. The song comes from their upcoming rarities collection, Selective Wreckage, due out September 30 via Bridge Nine.
The album collects a few B-sides from 2007’s Is Dead as well as 2006’s The Troubled Stateside and their side of a never-released...
Polar Bear Club heading north with the Swellers
Polar Bear Club will embark north today (yuk yuk) for a brief Canadian tour with pop-skatepunks the Swellers. Polar Bear Club released Sometimes Things Just Disappear earlier this year on Red Leader, while the Swellers issued their own debut full-length, My Everest, in 2007 on Search And Rescue, as well as a very recent collection...