Nurse With Wound
Nurse With Wound Huffin’ Rag Blues [4/5]
For 30 years, Nurse With Wound mastermind Steven Stapleton has massaged nearly every musical style imaginable into Dadaistic grotesqueries. He’s built a rabid cult following for his mad montages of esoteric music and wry genre-subversion. Now with the help of Andrew Liles and other oddballs, Stapleton mutates lounge...
The Medic Droid
The Medic Droid What’s Your Medium [3/4]
Old genres never die, they’re just reconstituted. So as grass begins to grow around the electroclash headstone, Digitalism and Justice start ripping pages out of Daft Punk while the Medic Droid offer their punk-pop perspective. Frontman Chris Donathon’s careening croon aches and breaks over anthemic trance lines, pulling...
CSS
CSS Donkey [4.5/5]
Although CSS returned to their native Brazil to record their sophomore effort, the hot-pink pop of Donkey has everything to do with spunky American Top 40 and Swedish rock. The soul-funk swerve “Move” sounds like the soundtrack to a cheesy ’80s workout video, “Air Painter” may as well be a Sounds outtake...
Black Kids
Black Kids Partie Traumatic [3.5/5]
Remember that amidst the post-backlash backlash, Jacksonville, Florida’s Black Kids were only guilty of making a great EP that sounded a little like Robert Smith fronting Lipps Inc., and then giving it away online. If those four charming tracks generated an absurd amount of hype last year, then, hey, Reggie...
AP Exclusive: Cover Art For New This Providence Album Revealed
Seattle, Washington, quartet This Providence recently completed work on their second album for Fueled By Ramen, Who Are You Now?, and have set a March 17 release date for it. While we can’t hook you up with any of the new music, we have an exclusive first look at the Who Are You Now? cover...
Web Exclusive: A conversation with Leathermouth's Frank Iero
Frank Iero of Leathermouth and My Chemical Romance is, in fact, okay. My Chem (huge comic book fans) were asked to contribute a song to the soundtrack of the soon-to-be-blockbuster comic adaptation of Watchmen and this week, Iero’s hardcore side project, Leathermouth, released their debut album, XO. Even with all that going on, Iero still...
Family Force 5 announce Dance Or Die remix album
AP Tour co-headliners Family Force 5 will release a remix album of their latest full-length, Dance Or Die, on May 19 through the band’s Transparent Media Group. Cobra Starship and fellow AP Tour members 3OH!3 are among those slated to contribute remixes to the disc. Frontman Solomon Olds had this to say: “The remix record...