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Marissa Nadler

Video: Marissa Nadler’s “The Wrecking Ball Company”

In advance of her next album, The Sister, Boston-based folk songstress Marissa Nadler presents a video for “The Wrecking Ball Company,” in which she and folk singer Ryan Lee Crosby play a couple that’s living worlds apart under the same roof.

Roadburn Festival 2012

Roadburn Festival 2012

Holland’s annual Roadburn Festival begins today, featuring some of the most adventurous names in metal (and beyond) from across the globe over four days of festivities. This year’s ALARM favorites include: Ancestors, Michael Gira (of Swans), Killing Joke, Om, Sleep, Pelican, Manorexia (JG Thirlwell), Nachtmystium, Barn Owl, Jucifer, La Otracina, Justin K. Broadrick,  Saviours, Tombs, and The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation.

See the complete schedule here. Though the festival is sold out, it’s never too early to plan for 2013!

At the Drive-in

Video: At the Drive-In’s first reunion show

On Monday, for the first time in 11 years, seminal post-hardcore outfit At the Drive-In took to the stage, marking the first of this year’s reunion tour dates. The band performed a 15-song set at Red 7 in Austin, which was the first of three intimate shows in its home state of Texas.

Yesterday, Consequence of Sound posted footage of some of the show’s highlights. Check out “Quarantined” below, and continue reading to see “Enfilade” and “One Armed Scissor.”

Black God

Q&A: Black God

Black God: IIBlack God: II (No Idea, 3/20/12)

Black God: “Everyone’s a Friend”

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In 2000, Louisville-based Black Widows emerged from local hardcore powerhouses Rob Pennington (By the Grace of God) and Ryan Patterson (The National Acrobat, Coliseum). The amalgamation soon became known as Black Cross, which went on to release two full-lengths and a couple of seven-inch records by 2004. Though Patterson admits that the band “faded out of activity,” that hasn’t stopped the collaborative efforts of its founding members.

The most recent incarnation of Black Cross hasn’t evolved much in terms of a band name or even its founding members. Now performing together as Black God, Pennington and Patterson have recruited the likes of fellow Black Cross alum and Young Widows’ Nick Thieneman on bass, as well as the younger Ben Sears (Prideswallower, Mountain Asleep) on drums.