Anti-Flag limited time album stream
If you’re getting pumped to hear Anti-Flag‘s new album, you don’t have to wait quite until its June 9 release date. The full stream of The People Or The Gun is available on the band’s MySpace today and tomorrow.
Frank Turner announces album release date
English guitar slinger Frank Turner recently signed to Epitaph Records and is starting to fulfill his contractual obligations with the label. The artist’s follow-up to 2008’s Love, Ire & Song will be entitled Poetry of the Dead and will hit stores on September 7.
Iwrestledabearonce stream new album
Creatively-titled Iwrestledabearonce‘s album It’s All Happening!!! came out today in stores, but if you want to try it before you buy it, all songs from the disc are available for streaming now on AOL music.
True Widow
True Widow True Widow [3.5/5]
True Widows’ lumbering, somnambulant gait shimmers like road haze, gnawing the meat off mesmerizing grooves. It’s reminiscent of slowcore and its dream-pop antecedents, with a sluggish, sultry, bluesy buzz that pools in a resident hum. Songs meander in a neo-psych drone, though former Slowride frontman Dan Phillips is more interested...
Franz Nicolay
Franz Nicolay Major General [4/5]
It’s probably unfair to call the Hold Steady’s Franz Nicolay anything other than a musician. How else to describe a man who has spent his life immersed in one scene or another, playing everything from anarcho-circus punk to Balkan-gypsy ditties and even chamber music and classic rock? None of this...
Late Of The Pier
Late Of The Pier Fantasy Black Channel [4/5]
These days, it seems many of today’s 20-something rockers park themselves in front of Warped Tour’s main stage for inspiration to start a band the next day. Meanwhile in Britain, Late Of The Pier are blatant sonic time-bandits, lifting the best parts of the past 30 years...
Blink Ink: All Time Low's Jack Barakat reveals the tale of his tattoo
In our “Band Who Changed My Life” special in AP 252, ALL TIME LOW frontman ALEX GASKARTH gushes about his icons BLINK-182. But he isn’t the only ATL member obsessed with Blink. Guitarist JACK BARAKAT reveals how he and drummer RIAN DAWSON ended up with matching Blink ink: “We were on tour with Boys Like...
X vocalist Exene Cervenka diagnosed with MS
Exene Cervenka, vocalist for Los Angeles punk band X, revealed that she recently became aware that she has been suffering from Multiple Sclerosis for "quite some time." Cervenka has been a strong supporter of the Sweet Relief charity which was initiated to provide support to uninsured musicians after singer/songwriter Victoria Williams was diagnosed with MS...
The Cab replace guitarist Ian Crawford
The Cab have made what sounds like an amicable split with guitarist Ian Crawford. "The direction we as a band weren’t what his intentions were to move forward musically," said bassist Cash Colligan in his blog. "He’s a great guy who taught me alot about music and helped me push myself at times even when...