Nicole Rork

After completing a (we‘re assuming quite bizarre) tour alongside System Of A Down and the Mars Volta, noise-skronk-power-jazz-miscellaneous duo Hella are packing up the van once again, first opening for the legendary Les Claypool, then spending the month of November alongside the DIllinger Escape Plan and Between The Buried And Me. Expect the shows to […]

For years, the members of MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE languished in New Jersey suburbs, immersing their active imaginations in comic books and punk rock, which they then refined into a singular post-emo musical vision. Then gradually-almost in service to their name-things started to fall apart. These days, they’re driven by the centrifugal […]

THE BLOOD BROTHERS helped galvanize Seattle’s hardcore scene with their patented shrieking vocals, six-stringed angularity and rhythmic fury. The band’s new album finds them moving further away from the pit and the punk-rock rulebook, but if you don’t want to come along for the ride, it’s okay with them. Really. Story: […]

Kid-tested, O.C.-approved Seattle indie-popsters Death Cab For Cutie are tearing up the pavement just as much as they‘re tearing up your last.fm charts. The band started their fall tour last week and have been selling out shows left and right; if you‘ve somehow missed the tour dates circulating the ol‘ internets, we have them below […]

Chicago pop-punks Mest have announced that they have to drop off their current tour with Social Distortion and Dead 60s due to drummer Nick coming down with a case of carpal tunnel syndrome. The band‘s statement: "We want to let all of our fans know that we will be leaving the Social Distortion tour […]

Abacus Recordings band Embrace The End have completed the video for “Carbombs And Conversations,” off their newest full-length, Counting Hallways To The Left. The video was directed by Andy DeYoung, who has also shot clips for Chiodos and Blessing The Hogs, and it also includes an actress from Big Fish (see if you can figure […]

Good friends, great music and vintage amps: These are the things that matter to heartland rockers LIMBECK. Interview: Leslie Simon Limbeck have come a long way, and not just in terms of the miles they’ve logged during three years of relentless touring (we’d guess around 250,000). The band’s ever-evolving style-more akin to the CDs […]

Excuse the bad pun-but, given that it’s nine years, 187 bands and five stages strong, HELLFEST is damn straight the hottest ticket this month. Story: Aaron Burgess Shawn Van Der Poel talks about old-school hardcore with the enthusiasm of a 13-year-old who’s just come back from his first show-only Van Der Poel, president and […]