Posts by Month: January 2012

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Gig: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah is a Brooklyn and Philadelphia based indie-rock band consisting of Alec Ounsworth, Lee Sargent, Robbie Guertin, Tyler Sargent, and Sean Greenhalgh. All the band members attended Connecticut College, in New London, Connecticut, United States

Their debut album, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, recorded by Adam … Read on

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Gig: Skrillex

Skrillex Announces ‘The Skrillex Cell’ Grey Daze Tour!

Following this year’s sell out tour later this month, we are pleased to announce that Skrillex returns to the UK in February to embark on the Grey Daze Tour, his biggest headline UK tour to date.

2011 has undoubtedly been Skrillex’

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Gig: Dream Theater

Dream Theater is an American progressive metal band formed in 1985 under the name Majesty by John Myung, John Petrucci, and Mike Portnoy while they attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, before they dropped out to support the band. Though a number of lineup changes followed, the three original

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Review: First Aid Kit: The Lion’s Roar – Review

PROLOGUE

MANCHESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY.

SEXUAL HEALTH CLINIC.

TUESDAY, JUNE 28th, 2005, 13:38.

 

A Muslim woman is threading a futuristic-looking Q-Tip on a reconnaissance mission into my urethra. I say Q-Tip – its anything but cute, capped as it is with something far less sympathetic than cotton. Have you ever … Read on

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Gig: Alestorm

Originally known as Battleheart, Alestorm, the purveyors of the relatively unexplored musical territory known as “pirate metal” formed in their original — pre-nautical phase in 2004. As Battleheart, the group was initially a duo, formed by Gavin Harper (guitar) and Christopher Bowes (vocals and keyboards), who recorded their first EP … Read on

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Gig: William Control

William Roy Francis was born January 8, 1982 in Seattle,Washington.
In wiL’s younger years he took an interest in drugs and alcohol but after leading police on a high speed car chase (and subsequently spending time in jail), wiL decided it was time to turn his life around. He started … Read on

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Gig: Dezerter

Dezerter was founded as SS-20 in 1981 in Warsaw and is one of the most popular punk bands from Poland.

They had to change their name to Dezerter because of the reaction of the Communist authorities (SS-20 was a clear reference to a type of Soviet ICBM).

Dezerter is regarded … Read on

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Gig: La Dispute

La Dispute is five close friends from the Upper Midwest with a firm passion for the concept of music and art as a medium for making new friends. As a result, La Dispute makes (or strives to make) music that is both artistically, technically, and emotionally engaging in hopes of … Read on