the blood brothers

Pleasure Venom hail from Austin, Texas, with social and sonic attitude to burn. Fronted by vocalist Audrey Campbell, the quartet have created a fascinating amalgam of hard-rock riffing and jagged treble attacks. Those sharp edges are capable of puncturing anybody’s jaded sensibilities or preconceived notions of what constitutes “heavy.”  In their five-year existence, Pleasure Venom […]

Post-hardcore broke out as a movement in a huge way during the first decade of the 2000s while shaping how people view the genre today. Countless others had pioneered the genre throughout the ’80s and ’90s, but bands such as Glassjaw, At The Drive-In and Boysetsfire helped push it to new heights. Take a look […]

Music fans may remember Cody Votolato as the firebrand guitarist whose contributions to such maniacal post-everything bands as the Blood Brothers and Head Wound City pushed the realm of hardcore a couple of parsecs into the future. Having returned to his nom de plume JR Slayer,  he’s back stirring up some emotions—without a stack of […]

Over the weekend, the Blood Brothers performed their second of five currently scheduled reunion shows at FYF Fest. Footage of the band performing their songs, “Ambulance Vs. Ambulance,” and “Crimes,” have surfaced online. Watch them below, and check out a full set list as well. The band are scheduled to play two dates in New York on […]

Over the course of 10 years, five albums and unfathomable odometer abuse, the Blood Brothers brought a much-needed vibrancy to America’s punk, hardcore and indie-rock scenes. Vocalists Jordan Blilie and Johnny Whitney were shrieking jet turbines in human form, ably powered by guitarist Cody Votolato, bassist/synth op Morgan Henderson and drummer Mark Gajadhar. The Bloods […]

Fun Fun Fun Fest have announced the lineup for their ninth year, which includes such bands as Death Cab For Cutie, Death From Above 1979, the Blood Brothers, Amon Amarth, City And Colour, Failure, Glassjaw, Hot Water Music, Mineral and more. You can check out the full lineup below. The festival takes place November 7-9 at Auditorium […]

The full lineup has been announced for FYF Fest. The bill includes such acts as the Blood Brothers, the Strokes, Balance And Composure, La Dispute, Against Me!, the Strokes and more. You can check out the full lineup below. This marks the first Blood Brothers show in eight years. The band broke up in 2007. The […]

We hope that 2014 is going to be the year you stop settling for compressed-to-hell MP3s and start collecting vinyl albums. Records sound vastly superior when compared against those compressed MP3s you got for free. They have great artwork, lyric sheets (usually) and extensive notes about the music, as well as voluminous “thank you” lists […]

The Venetia Fair have announced that they will release The Venetia Fair…Basically Just Does Karaoke, a covers EP comprising their takes on six songs ranging from Green Day to Queen, via digital retailers on December 24.  The songs for the EP (tracklisting below) were chosen by the six $200+ backers of the band's Kickstarter campaign for their latest […]

Going out on top is an art mastered by a wise few artists who leave in their wake not 10 years of novelty albums, but explosions and the ashes of their contemporaries. Here are seven artists who knew that giving up a great thing is sometimes the best thing to do to keep it great […]

Our demise fast approaches, fellow Earthlings. Come Friday, according to those kooky Mayans (or to people who think they can comprehend the work someone did thousands of years ago better than scholars), this place we call Earth is going up in flames. Or something. Does anyone even know for sure how we’re going to die? […]

Ex-Give Up The Ghost (American Nightmare) frontman Wes Eisold’s new project, Cold Cave, has an entirely new supergroup-worthy lineup featuring London May (Samhain), Hunter Burgan (AFI), Dave Stone (LCD Soundsystem/Melvins) & Cody Votolato (Blood Brothers, Jaguar Love). The band will be touring the US as a full band for the first time this fall in support of […]

Whether it's recording an album, pressing it on vinyl or trying to get on the road, sometimes even your favorite bands need a helping hand to see their vision come to life. We present to you KICKSTART MY ART, AP's weekly roundup of Kickstarter (and similarly crowd-funded) projects created by bands and labels you love […]

Seattle's Nazca Lines have released a new track called “Spike Them All” from their debut album Hyperventilation, out August 23rd on Stressed Sumo Records. The track features the Blood Brothers guitarist Cody Votolato and can be heard below.

Hyro Da Hero Birth, School, Work, Death   The knock on rap-rock has traditionally been that its main strength is also its primary weakness: a lumbering, brontosaurean power that seems to naturally lend itself to the lunkheaded gesture. But music has evolved several lifetimes beyond the ’90s/’00s renaissance of hard-rocking hip-hop, and there’s no better […]