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SHEER MAG Release New Album 'Playing Favorites'
by Michael Major - March 01, 2024 The band is emerging with a dense work of gripping emotions, massive hooks and masterfully constructed power-pop anthems all lead by frontwoman Tina Halladay's earth shaking vocals. This is the record the Philadelphian rock and roll four-piece has always been destined to make.... 
Sheer Mag Share 'Eat It And Beat It' Single
by Michael Major - February 15, 2024 Sheer Mag have labored to carve out a discernibly singular position within the canon of contemporary rock - their sound is unmistakably and immediately recognizable as theirs alone. The band will also be headlining a spring tour. Sheer Mag kick off their extensive headlining North American tour in D... 
Sheer Mag Share 'Moonstruck' Single From New Album 'Playing Favorites'
by Michael Major - January 09, 2024 Sheer Mag break significant musical ground on their forthcoming album Playing Favorites, elevating their signature approach to rock and roll to lushly cinematic new heights. Their latest single “Moonstruck” lives up to its titular reference of Hollywood-sized surprise romance, spooling out a charmin... 
SHEER MAG Announce New Album 'Playing Favorites'
by Michael Major - November 09, 2023 On Playing Favorites, Sheer Mag’s third full-length and first with Third Man Records, the band capitalize on a decade’s worth of devotion to their own collective spirit—a spirit refined in both the sweaty trenches of punk warehouses and the larger-than-life glamour of concert halls—emerging with a d... 
Baroness Release Deluxe Version of STONE; Add Acoustic Record Store Performances
by Michael Major - October 16, 2023 Baroness' new album, STONE (Abraxan Hymns) gets the deluxe treatment with the addition of six live tracks from the band’s 2022 “Your Baroness” tour. The band has also announced an additional eight acoustic record store performances, with the first of those outings happening this afternoon at Daddy K... 
Advertisement Share New Single 'Where Is My Baby?'
by Michael Major - August 29, 2023 The single comes alongside a mischievous video created by the band and director Kyle Mangione-Smith. They reconvened in Los Angeles during the summer of 2022 to record, enlisting the help of engineer Mike Kriebel (Osees, Ty Segall, Mild High Club), who tracked and mixed the record.... 
POISON RUIN Announce US Tour Following 'Harvest' Album
by Michael Major - August 16, 2023 Poison Ruin have toured continuously, including various US dates and a sold out European / UK debut tour earlier this year. Now they set another Fall US run around their performance at Gonerfest in September. Highlights also include NYC's Union Pool at the top of next month, Nashville, DC, NOLA and ... 
SHEER MAG Release New Single 'All Lined Up'
by Michael Major - August 03, 2023 “All Lined Up” perfectly renders the intensity of Sheer Mag’s commitment to songcraft, layering direct, delightfully sweet-turned-sour guitar licks and swirling call-and-response vocal hooks over a throbbing drumline, evoking the anxiously excited, contemporary-Studio-54-tinged thrill of not knowing... 
Dusk (ex. Tenement) Announce New Album & Release First Single
by Michael Major - July 18, 2023 Don Giovanni Records has announced the new album from Dusk titled Glass Pastures. The band features Amos Pitsch (of Tenement) alongside 5 other equally accomplished singers, songwriters, and multi-instrumentalists. Along with the album announcement, Dusk have released the album's lead single 'Pissin... 
Advertisement Share 'Victory' Single From Upcoming 'Escorts' Album
by Michael Major - July 13, 2023 On Escorts, Advertisement provides a convincing argument for rock’s continued ability to reflect the maddening incoherency of the world around us. Moving with a cadence which is at once both tragic and lighthearted, melancholic and laughable, Advertisement confront the delirium of modern life and tw... 
POISON RUIN Release 'Resurrection II' Single
by Michael Major - March 09, 2023 Poison Ruin have released their latest single “Resurrection II” – a cathartic tale of the undead rising to take revenge upon those who have unknowingly wronged them. It’s full revenge fantasy with melodic rocking, equally split between surf motifs and new wave of British Heavy heavy metal riffing. W... 
Poison Run Announce New Album 'Harvest'
by Michael Major - February 08, 2023 Its title track interplays between softly transitory instrumentals and sonic barrages, juxtaposing piano passages against a drawling, sitting-on-the-edge-of-the-world vocal line. Frantic instrumentals race forward with bold highs, shifting effortlessly from urgent funeral marches to subtly power pop... 
NARROW HEAD Release 'Caroline' Single & Announce Headline NA Tour
by Michael Major - January 17, 2023 Narrow Head’s latest single “Caroline” captures the band at their most nakedly pop-inflected moment yet. Washes of melodics and A/B song-structures are subsumed in an ocean-spray of glimmering distortion and aired with sweetly sung words, generating Moments of Clarity’s soft album centerpiece.... 
Nouvo Testamento Announce 'Love Lines' LP & Release New Single
by Michael Major - December 06, 2022 Nuovo Testamento, has taken over dance floors with their uniquely dark Italo disco-flavored pop hits in just a few years. Produced by sound engineer Maurizio Baggio (Boy Harsher, The Soft Moon) with vocal recording by Riki, Love Lines is reminiscent of the work of Shep Pettibone, Chris Barbosa and s... 
VIDEO: PUP & Jeff Rosenstock Perform 'Waiting' on SETH MEYERS
by Michael Major - May 12, 2022 The band has been on a massive North American tour ever since, and last night they made their return to late night T.V. Featuring surprise guest Jeff Rosenstock on saxophone and backing vocals, PUP performed an insanely fun rendition of “Waiting” on Late Night With Seth Meyers. Plus, check out upcom... 
PUP Release New Album 'THE UNRAVELING OF PUPTHEBAND'
by Michael Major - April 01, 2022 The album was recorded and mixed over the course of five weeks in the summer of 2021, in GRAMMY Award-winning producer Peter Katis’ bat-filled mansion in Connecticut. Full of typically furious, ridiculous and anthemic songs, the recording process allowed PUP to push themselves further than ever befo... 
PUP Shares New Single 'Totally Fine'
by Michael Major - March 22, 2022 Following the previously released “Waiting,” “Robot Writes A Love Song, and “Matilda,” PUP shares one last single before the entire album drops next week. Accompanied by a Jeremy Schaulin-Rioux directed video, “Totally Fine” is a hilariously self-lacerating track with an undeniable chorus that offer... 
Coheed & Cambria Announce 'The Great Destroyer Tour'
by Michael Major - December 14, 2021 The upcoming winter dates will see Coheed and Cambria performing their 2021 singles “Rise, Naianasha (Cut The Cord)” and “Shoulders,” the latter of which is currently Top 10 at Active Rock Radio, marking the group’s career highest radio chart position to date. Check out the new tour dates now!... 
Narrow Head Reveal New Single 'Hard To Swallow'
by Kaitlin Milligan - August 05, 2020 Narrow Head’s wall of riffs add stark contrast to their best quality– deceptively sweet pop melodies.... 
Empath Expands Fall Tour, Including Dates with Vivian Girls, La Dispute and Touche Amore
by Kaitlin Milligan - September 11, 2019 Philadelphia noise punks Empath have expanded their massive fall tour to add dates with Vivian Girls, La Dispute and Touche Amore. The band is currently on a full US tour with Mannequin Pussy that also includes dates with Sheer Mag and Guerilla Toss.... 
Empath Signs to Fat Possum Records, Announce Tour Dates and Reissues
by Kaitlin Milligan - July 24, 2019 Philadelphia noise punks Empath have announced they've signed to Fat Possum Records and will be reissuing their critically acclaimed debut album, Active Listening: Night on Earth. The deluxe version of the LP includes their 2018 Liberating Guilt and Fear EP, available on vinyl for the first time eve... 
Maya Jane Coles Remixes 'Cocoon' From Indie-Electronic Band Gold Fields
by Kaitlin Milligan - June 21, 2019 British-Japanese, producerDJ Maya Jane Coles has stepped up to remix Australian indie-electronic quintet Gold Fields' track 'Cocoon' released today via Haven Sounds. The original track is lifted from Gold Field's recently released album, Dalawa. Maya Jane Coles needs no introduction. She has recentl... 
SHEER MAG Announce New Album 'A Distant Call'
by Kaitlin Milligan - June 19, 2019 SHEER MAG return with their sophomore album, A Distant Call. They're still writing about surviving our current hellscape, but this time around, the politics get extra-personal. It's heavy power-pop so sleek it gleams. 'We've been waiting to write these songs since we started the band and we were abl... 
FURY (Run For Cover) Share New Single MONO NO AWARE, Announce North American Tour
by Tori Hartshorn - April 17, 2019 FURY have established themselves quickly. They built on the melodic legacy of Orange County by way of heavy, rhythmic, start-stop guitars and frontman, Jeremy Stith's wordy, referential and poetic lyrics. Today they release their latest single, 'Mono No Aware' which came to fruition after a conversa... 
FURY Share New Video and Single VACATION
by Tori Hartshorn - March 27, 2019 FURY hit us with their new video and single, 'Vacation' which debuted over at Heavy Consequence on Consequence of Sound. Lyrically on 'Vacation', frontman Jeremy Stith references Harry Dean Stanton's discussion of 'predestination and each humans' capabilities and their place in the world' Stith expl... |
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