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Anyone else get some serious FOMO from clicking through Wikipedia pages and tour posters and seeing page after page of dope tours? (Why did everything good in the world happen in 2006?) But what’s awesome and unique about our music scene is that it brings so many people of different age groups, interests and backgrounds […]

Washington, D.C. instrumental post-rock band Black Clouds will officially release their new album, Dreamcation, on November 4 via Collect Records, the independent label owned by Thursday/No Devotion frontman Geoff Rickly. Following their debut, Everything Is Not Going To Be OK, the new record was produced by J. Robbins of Jawbox and mixed/mastered by Chris Common (Isis, […]

We have received the following “transmission” about impending shows from mysterious supergroup United Nations, which features Geoff Rickly, formerly of Thursday.  “In January of 2009 United Nations played their first show at the Black Cat in Washington, D.C. on inauguration day to usher in a new era of change. Now four years later the band […]

Tigers Jaw/Tiny Empires Split EP There are a handful of special tidbits concerning Tigers Jaw's latest split EP. For one, it showcases the recorded debut of Tiny Empires (formerly Black Clouds), the newest project from ex-O Pioneers!!! mastermind Eric Solomon. For another, despite the tracklisting only listing three actual tracks, there are technically six individual […]