The Casket Lottery

2013 and 1/3: The Best Albums of the 2010s (So Far)

Inspired by the third installment of The Naked Gun, we decided to compile our favorite albums over the first 3…

Q&A: The Casket Lottery’s unsung reunion yields louder, denser indie-rock gem

The Casket Lottery made a full-length return in 2012 with Real Fear, one of our favorite albums of the year.…

ALARM’s 50 (+5) Favorite Songs of 2012

Last month ALARM presented its 50 favorite albums of 2012, an eclectic, rock-heavy selection of discs that were in steady…

ALARM’s 50 Favorite Albums of 2012

Another year, another torrential downpour of albums across our desks. As always, we encountered way too much amazing music, from…

Review: The Casket Lottery’s Real Fear

With its first full-length album in 10 years, The Casket Lottery is putting the rock back in "indie rock" with…

MP3 Premiere: The Casket Lottery’s “In the Branches”

Remember when "indie rock" bands used to play...*ahem*...rock music? If you're under the age of 20, you might not --…

Review: The Casket Lottery’s The Door EP / Nathan Ellis’s self-titled EP

Nathan Ellis, he of unassuming name but unassailable indie-rock credentials, is back with two brand-new EPs, including the first new…

The Casket Lottery and Nathan Ellis announce new EPs, full-length

Indie-rock powerhouse The Casket Lottery -- now a five-piece -- is releasing a new EP called The Door on 8/7.…

Interview with Able Baker Fox

Following eight months of online riff-swapping, the scattered Midwesterners of Able Baker Fox rehearsed only once before recording their upcoming…

Coalesce: There is Nothing New Under the Sun

When mathy, groove-heavy hardcore outfit Coalesce remodeled a short disc’s worth of Led Zeppelin tunes in 1999, fans of Zep’s…

Casket Lottery + Small Brown Bike = Able Baker Fox

Long-distance relationships -- not to mention incestuous ones -- generally are a bad idea. But somehow the rules don't apply…

Coalesce Planning Tour, Seven-Inch for August

After spending the better part of the past six years broken up or as a quasi-functional touring unit, hardcore behemoths…