Save your puns about corporate mergers, but Big Business has latched onto a dozen Tool tour dates as openers for one of the most mainstream progressive rock acts in the United States. Now, if only working for the man could as fun as seeing both in action…
Hackensaw Boys @ James Park (Evanston)
No power? No problem! That was the case Thursday night at James Park in Evanston, Illinois for Hackensaw Boys, a six-piece outfit responsible for sonic concoctions of blistering bluegrass and active Americana.
New Yakuza Due August 7
Though Yakuza‘s last album, Samsara, was released just last March, the progressive noise metal veterans have already completed a new full-length disc titled Transmutations. What more could fans with short attention spans desire?
Gamers fiending for the first Blitzen Trapper: Wild Mountain Nation
Portland natives Blitzen Trapper have always enjoyed blurring the lines between their own unique experimentation and what their traditionalist contemporaries might consider musical schizophrenia. With Wild Mountain Nation, their self-released follow-up to their 2004 release Field Rexx, these grizzlies takes their mish mash of mountain-man bluegrass, country, and outer-space electronics to a new, messy level of weird.
In Rotation: June 12, 2007
Queens of the Stone Age, whose new album, Era Vulgaris, hits stores today and is getting heavy play in the ALARM office, are the cover artists of our forthcoming summer issue.
Pelican: City of Echoes
After receiving praise for their debut album Australasia and the epic The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw, Pelican‘s third full-length release, City of Echoes (Hydra Head), finds the instrumental quartet once again blending atmospheric rock with a touch of doom.
El-P Appears Tonight on “Late Night With Conan O’Brien”
Definitive Jux CEO and genre-expanding hip hop mastermind El-Producto, better known as El-P, will be featured as the live performer on Late Night with Conan O’Brien this evening.
Crime In Choir To Play Museum; GSL Keeps Busy
Melodic prog outfit Crime in Choir will be performing at SFMOMA (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art) on September 13 with NYC-based visual artist Anthony McCall. McCall, who specializes in cinema/projected film, will do projections set to live Crime in Choir music.
Big Business Begins U.S. Tour Tonight
After a week-long tour in Italy, Big Business kickoff the U.S. leg of their summer tour tonight with a show at Seattle’s El Corazon.
Only One Week Left to Vote for ‘Dream Spot’ Winner
Hundreds of submissions have been narrowed down to just ten bands, including Kidnapkin (shown above), for Sabian’s ‘Dream Spot’ contest, a chance to tour with the 2007 Vans Warped Tour and play on the ‘Kevin Says’ stage, which is notable for being the springboard for bands such as Fall Out Boy, All-American Rejects, and My Chemical Romance.