Music

Experimental indie rapper Sole, A.K.A. Tim Holland, has released a grim new music video with his three-piece backing group, The Skyrider Band. The video is for their song “Stupid Things Implode On Themselves,” featured on their collaborative self-titled debut.

Savannah, Georgia-based metal band Kylesa have announced their return to Europe with a tour in support of Time Will Fuse Its Worth, their October 2006 release on Prosthetic Records. Starting January 26, they will be performing around Europe for nearly a month with sludge metal band and hometown friends Baroness.

Noise/grind band The Locust recently suffered a robbery during a show in St. Louis. After performing on November 25, they returned to their tour van to find it broken into and a significant amount of their personal belongings missing.

Since its debut in 2004, piano/guitar folk duo White Magic has challenged listeners and stayed true to the vision of songwriter Mira Billotte.

Second Nature Recordings has begun taking pre-orders for Voices, the upcoming debut album from Able Baker Fox. The four-piece melodic rock outfit is comprised of guitarist Nathan Ellis (The Casket Lottery, Coalesce) and three members of Small Brown Bike.

Australia’s metal/hardcore act Parkway Drive have confirmed US tour dates with Killswitch Engage, Every Time I Die and Dillinger Escape Plan.

So you need a fix for some “apocalyptic, non-linear” music? Well, you’re in luck. Irons is a three-way collaboration that brings together two of the most powerful vocalists that hardcore has to offer: Converge’s Jake Bannon and Integrity’s Dwid Hellion. Experimental visual and aural artist Stephen Kasner rounds out the trio.

Celebrating independent art, music, film, and culture, the Noise Pop Festival will reach its sixteenth birthday in February 2008. Musical performers Magnetic Fields, The Mountain Goats, Cursive, and The Gutter Twins (Afghan Whigs’ Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegan) have all been confirmed for the event.

When someone goes to see a band with a couple of huge radio hits, it’s always entertaining to see him or her make sense of the opening act. In this case, we are talking about Modest Mouse at the Congress Theater, and the opener is the ever-amusing Man Man.

Brooklyn noise-pop trio A Place To Bury Strangers are frequently tagged as “retro.” To many, late ’80s U.K.-based noise groups never went away.

Experimental chamber pop band 2 Foot Yard has announced the release of its sophomore album, Borrowed Arms, set for release on March 4, 2008. For every Borrowed Arms album sold in the US, the band will donate $0.50 to Food Change in Harlem, New York City as well as the Canyon School organic gardening project in Canyon, CA.