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Body/Head has fury oozing through every chord and squeal.
Body/Head No Waves Body/Head No Waves The teeth-rattling noise and detuned guitar glory of ex-Sonic Youth member Kim Gordon and guitarist Bill Nace is captured here in a live performance, recorded during the 2014 Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, Tennessee. Unlike many live albums, these aren’t note-for-note re-creations of the work found on Body/Head’s 2013 […]
Frank Iero’s ‘Parachutes’ doesn’t provide a soft landing
Frank Iero And The Patience Parachutes Frank Iero isn’t trying to be slippery with his decision to change the name of his solo venture from frnkiero and the cellabration to the more straightforward Frank Iero And The Patience. It is drawing a line in the sand between the two albums—2014’s Stomachaches and the recently released […]
Simple Plan stick to their comfort zone with familiar, reliable new album
Simple Plan Taking One For The Team After relying on an array of guest stars and co-writers to help reinforce their 2011 album Get Your Heart On!, Simple Plan are, for the most part, trusting their own instincts again on their brand new LP Taking One For The Team. In doing so, the Canadian quintet […]
The Black Queen unveil industrial synthpop debut album (review)
The Black Queen Fever Daydream The cloud of Nine Inch Nails, Front 242 and the entire school of early ’90s industrial synthpop hangs heavy and thick around the debut album of the Black Queen. But damn if doesn’t look good on them: Dillinger Escape Plan vocalist Greg Puciato is given space he rarely gets in […]
Nevermen's self-titled album brings delicious, thick swirls of modern electronica
Nevermen Nevermen The supergroup known as Nevermen boasts the elastic vocals and curious minds of TV On The Radio frontman Tunde Adebimpe, Faith No More leader Mike Patton and underground hip-hop artist Doseone. Combining their powers, the trio have concocted a brutalist symphony of high-octane sonics, low-hanging beats and squirrelly moments that border on pop […]
New Years Day take a gigantic leap on 'Malevolence'
New Years Day Malevolence If 2013’s Victim To Villain was a huge step forward for this Chino Hills, California, band, the follow up is one gigantic leap into the inky black depths. Working yet again with producer Erik Ron, the quartet play to the listeners who feel both broken and defeated (“Suffer”) and defiant and […]
Titus Andronicus throw every musical idea against the wall with 'The Most Lamentable Tragedy'
Titus Andronicus The Most Lamentable Tragedy You’re gonna be hard-pressed to find a more ambitious 2015 release than this one. Over the course of 90 minutes and 29 tracks, Titus Andronicus explore the many details and facets of frontman Patrick Stickles’ clinical depression. The New Jersey-based band of sonic adventurers do it by throwing every […]
The Story So Far's self-titled LP takes heartbreak to fierce heights (Review)
The Story So Far The Story So Far A new band naming its first album after itself is a sensible move. It’s a statement of purpose: the purest vision of where the group is starting from before other influences begin to muddy the waters. But when a band three albums into their career gets around to issuing […]
Prurient's 'Frozen Niagara Falls' is his most high-profile work (review)
Prurient Frozen Niagara Falls This is Dominick Fernow’s most high-profile release in his long career recording under the name Prurient, and it’s akin to an epic compilation of his life’s work. Over the course of two discs and 90 minutes, he experiments in every genre he has tried his hand at over nearly 20 years: gut-throbbing […]