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When I call Brian Sella of the Front Bottoms, he is driving around a parking garage with bandmate Mathew Uychich. Getting used to life on the road, the Front Bottoms were about to get into their second night of touring with Motion City Soundtrack and the Henry Clay People. The lo-fi dance punk outfit just released their first full length album on New Jersey’s Bar/None Records. The two piece band makes their music with the frankness of a singer-songwriter, playfully poppy backbeats, and the occasional voicemail message. Not unlike the popular HBO sensation Girls, The Front Bottoms’ self -titled album starts from a place of realism. Singing songs about the grievances of their hometown, love interests and parents, the Front Bottoms’ lyrics flow smoothly with melancholy insight and catharsis. Each song a confessional, their unique voice and smart lyrics are reminiscent of a less pretentious incarnation of influential indie band, the Hold Steady.
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Interview: Kevin Barnes of Montreal
You announced last week that you have finished a new of Montreal record, to be titled Lousy with Sylvanbriar. The announcement noted a Sylvia Plath inspiration and that you recorded it on a 24 track tape machine in your home studio. Would you say that this is a more serious album? Yeah, definitely. It’s not in any way, joking. It’s not like LMFAO or anything. It’s music, it’s art. It has more in common with Leonard Cohen probably than with Parliament. I put together a different group of people to help me record it, there’s a different sound.…
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Album Review: Byzantine – Byzantine
West Virgina heavy metal band, Byzantine, returns to the metal scene with their fourth album, self-titled, Byzantine. A mesh of the best parts of bands like Meshuggah, Lamb of God, and Pantera seems like a winning combination in the making. Formed back in 2000, Byzantine focuses on the thrash beats and feeds the occasional progressive beat or classical breakdown that keeps their originality intact. In fact, when the band first started they wrote songs with the help of a BOSS drum machine since they hadn’t found a drummer yet. Byzantine’s members are Chris Ojeda (vocals and rhythm guitar), Tony Rohrbough…
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Album Review: Clutch – Earth Rocker
To say that Clutch is a veteran group in the music industry would be an understatement. The band was formed back in 1990 starting in Maryland and has released 10 studio albums. Clutch even owns its own record label now, called Weathermaker. In addition to that, the band has released a couple live performance DVD’s for sale. Their most recent studio project, Earth Rocker, has a laid back sound with iconic vocals headed by Neil Fallon. The other members of the band include Tim Sult (guitars), Dan Maines (bass), and Jean-Paul Gaster (drums and percussion). From the get-go the…
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Album Review: Amaranthe – The Nexus
It’s a difficult task to stand out in the metal scene, usually a band has to venture into other genres and incorporate musical ideas that will be innovative. Amaranthe does just that not only on their new second album, The Nexus, but as a staple of the band’s identity and sound. The combination of three different singers makes for a very unique way of each vocalist playing off of each other and developing an unpredictable array of verses. The melodic metal band infuses a little pop element into their songs with catchy choruses but maintain their heavy side with…
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A New Way to Talk About an Old Feeling: Allison Weiss on Tegan and Sara, Feminism and Pizza
Some of us first discovered Allison Weiss as an internet sensation that serenaded Youtube with acoustic covers of her favorite indie and punk rock songs. Since Weiss’ first EP release in 2007, she has moved to Brooklyn, toured with Lou Reed, and is hitting many stops this summer on the Vans Warped Tour. Weiss recently signed to No Sleep Records, an independent record label based in California which features bands like Into it.Over it., Balance and Composure, Touche Amore and The Wonder Years. Her music has seen a steady transition from the stripped down acoustic style of her early EPs…