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.
Delicious Design League: This is Not Art
Come join ALARM in Chicago this Saturday, December 8, for the opening reception of This Is Not Art 2. The art exhibit features work of the Delicious Design League, a graphic design duo that specializes in album and concert poster art.
Magnetic Fields, The Mountain Goats, Cursive Celebrate Noise Pop’s Sweet 16
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.
Man Man Startles Modest Mouse Fans
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.
A Place to Bury Strangers: s/t
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.
2 Foot Yard Prepares Borrowed Arms for March, Donates Proceeds to Charity
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.
Where Have All The E-mails Gone?
E-mail expert David Gewirtz analyzes the White House’s apparent lack of electronic security in his latest book, Where Have All the E-mails Gone? And with the recently reported White House claim that 5,000,000 e-mails may be missing, that’s a good question.
Degenerate Art Ensemble: Cuckoo Crow
Avant-garde performance company Degenerate Art Ensemble, a collective known to weave dance theatrics with punk rock and orchestral arrangements, is meant to be experienced live.
I Got Thunder Chronicles History of Black Female Songwriters
LaShonda Katrice Barnett (shown left), a professor of Africana Studies at Sarah Lawrence College and a musician in her own right, never intended on becoming a historian of black female songwriters. Instead, the calling found her.
Blue Scholars Present “The Program”
Seattle hip-hop duo Blue Scholars could definitely call 2007 their biggest year. The last twelve months have seen the band release their album Bayani through Rawkus Records, and play gigantic gigs on the main stage at the Sasquatch Festival and supporting Q-Tip at CMJ 2007.
Marco Benevento Starts Solo Life with Invisible Baby
In August, Marco Benevento released Live at Tonic, a three-disc set that showcased his jazz keyboarding minus the usual loops and synths characteristic of his regular band, the Benevento/Russo Duo. This February he’ll take things a step further with the arrival of his debut studio album, Invisible Baby.
Kiln: Dusker
By design, the kind of subtle ambience played by bands like Kiln lacks the sharp, obvious hooks that dig their way into the listener’s psyche. So it’s no surprise that Kiln (previously known as Fibreforms) have escaped detection over their ten-year existence.