Fang Island released its self-titled debut album in early 2010 on Sargent House. The Brooklyn riff masters have been touring on the strength of that record, and they recently made a stop at Lincoln Hall in Chicago for a raucous set of shredding and sweating. ALARM contributing photographer Elizabeth Gilmore was there to document the show.
The Mission District in San Francisco has been a relentless spotlight for arts and culture since the 1970s. Initially home to various Latino populations, the neighborhood has featured vibrant murals to express its residents’ social, political, and community concerns.
During the past 20 years, the area has attracted aspiring young people of various ethnicities due to its relatively low cost of living. More recently, the Mission District has grown into a progressive independent arts district. Although the area continues to boast its unyielding street art, it also has become home to an array of creative businesses and alternative art spaces. One of these businesses is Gallery Hijinks.
A Place to Bury Strangers plays 1980s-inspired noise rock designed to blow your mind — a mission plainly evidenced by its blistering live shows.
Every Friday, The Metal Examiner delves metal’s endless depths to present the genre’s most important and exciting albums.
Atheist: Jupiter (11/8/2010, Season of Mist)
Atheist’s first two albums are landmarks of technical death metal. These recordings represented a visionary take on metal composition conceived by injecting jazz-fusion riffing into the more structurally integrated style of death metal. Though under-appreciated during their time, these albums — Piece of Time and Unquestionable Presence — have since become part of the extreme-metal canon.
Liverpool alt-rockers Clinic stopped in Chicago recently, playing in support of their new album, Bubblegum (Domino, 10/4/10), which showcases the band’s gentler, poppier side. After a few more dates in California, the band will bring its off-kilter rock — and trademark surgical masks — to Italy. ALARM contributing photographer Drew Reynolds cut through the fog to capture these colorful images at Lincoln Hall.
On its newest record, Patagonian Rats, math-rock trio Tera Melos balances accessibility and experimentalism by accentuating its vocal melodies and delivering a wild take on pop.
