Manchester Orchestra: By The (Bad) Books
This January, the members of MANCHESTER ORCHESTRA and labelmate KEVIN DEVINE entered MO’s Atlanta studio to record a full-length album. The project, dubbed BAD BOOKS, is similar to Two Tongues, Chris Conley and Max Bemis’s band/bro-down that released their debut record in 2008. Here, MO frontman Andy Hull gives Altpress.com a taste of what listeners...
From First To Last: Richter Scales
TRAVIS RICHTER may have been pushed out of FROM FIRST TO LAST, but he’s hardly sitting on his couch crying, or issuing bitter denunciations of his former bandmates on Facebook. He’s got a couple of projects in the works, both in the rock arena and in the bass-heavy electronic subgenre known as dubstep. “I’m producing...
Andrew W.K.: Down The Rabbit Hole
While ANDREW W.K. insists the fight for control of his career he’s been caught in since 2005 is 100 percent real, some have suggested that there is an Andrew W.K./Steev Mike ARG, or alternate-reality game, taking place, with clues scattered across the internet. Thanks to excellent fan-run websites like awilkeskrier.homestead.com, dudeguy.com/awk and andrewwklinks.webs.com, you too,...
Four Year Strong: Movies Get Remembered, Quotes Never Die
FOUR YEAR STRONG’s 2009 covers album, Explains It All, should’ve clued in everyone that this is a band who take their pop culture seriously. But when the group aren’t busy chugging through Third Eye Blind and Alanis Morrisette tunes, the titles of their own songs and albums keep the references flowing, in a cross between...
MGMT: Here Come The Warm Vets
Although MGMT draw influence from a lot of musicians, it’s veteran British rock icon and producer Brian Eno who gets an entire song named after him on their new record. “Brian Eno” was penned because, as Ben Goldwasser says, the band were “really obsessed with Brian Eno while we were recording the album.” The song...