If there was one show I was sorry to have missed while in Asia, it was the Metalliance Tour at Summit Music Hall. I don’t know anyone who made that show in Denver, but Genji (and Ian Mackaye) caught the House of Blues show on 4/5 and his review is like salt in the wound…
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The words ‘southern lord‘, accompanied by an image of a horned creature with a hook and a pentagram, can’t help but dispatch the mind to the fiery netherworld of the fallen one; the scapegoat for all that is vile, revolting and just plain evil in this world, including the unholy sounds of heavy metal music. So you might be surprised to hear that the Los Angeles-based label, known for it’s focus on the ‘doom, stoner and drone’ sub genres of metal, was not named after Satan, The Devil, Shaitan or any other such figure, but instead after a certain ‘fruit, spice and whiskey flavored liqueur‘ invented by a bartender in New Orleans well over 100 years ago. Southern Lord was the name bestowed on a fledgling record label by it’s father, the Southern Comfort swillin’ guitarist for Thorr’s Hammer and Burning Witch, Greg Anderson, because he thought ‘it sounded cool‘.
When I interviewed Patterson Hood before this Drive-By Trucker weekend in Denver, I asked him about the ‘harsh realities‘ of the road. Those realities that almost broke up the band and were documented in A Secret To A Happy Ending. The answer he provided led me to believe that touring was no longer an issue
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‘Black and yellow, black and yellow, black and yellow‘. ‘pretty boy swag, pretty boy swag, pretty boy swag‘. It’s not every Sunday morning I wake up with Wiz Khalifa and Soulja Boy repeating themselves on a constant loop inside my brain, but that’s what happens when Greg Gillis comes to town. Pittsburgh‘s mash-up extraordinaire brought
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This guest post comes from Genji from Los Angeles. Look for more metal/punk posts from our California correspondent… For the past few years Scion has done a wonderful job pandering to the young metal community with their free show series. Have they actually sold more cars because of it? Who knows, but certainly no metalheads are complaining.
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This is a show I wasn’t going to attend and a review that wasn’t going to be written. And to be honest, this is more a personal account of the night than it is a review, so don’t say you weren’t warned or correct me on all the details I might get wrong. When doing
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How To Dress Well aka Tom Krell was a fixture on my iPod last year and although Love Remains came just short of making my Top 25 album list, his cover of R. Kelly‘s I Wish did break my Top 10 songs. Somehow I doubt Tom was heartbroken by the former or even aware of
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When we walked into Cafe du Nord just after 7pm, I have to admit I was a little nervous. What started out as one of my weekend trips back to San Francisco to visit friends and check out a couple shows ended up morphing into something more. Chelsea Wolfe, an artist from Sacramento whom I’ve
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It was cold in Denver last night, real cold. The temperature might have read in the 20’s, but it felt much colder than that standing in line in front of the Summit Music Hall, anticipating the mighty Immortal. The icy, frigid air provided the appropriate atmosphere for Norway‘s masters of occult to bring their stories
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If you haven’t heard of Chelsea Wolfe, you haven’t been following along very closely, but do yourself a favor and don’t miss out on her opening set for How To Dress Well at Cafe du Nord this Saturday night. I have described Chelsea’s work as doomscape or blackwave…a folk singer heavily influenced by doom and
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