Friday, June 18th, 2010
Blow The Scene Interview with Aaron Turner of IsisAdam Rauf, Staff Writer
All images by Seth Ballentine, Staff Photographer
On June 16, 2010, Blow The Scene staff writer Adam Rauf caught up with Aaron Turner of Isis a few hours before their Washington DC performance with Melvins as part of their final tour.
Isis is arguably one of the most influential metal bands of this decade, putting an emphasis on heavy riffs, spacey leads, ...
Thursday, June 17th, 2010
Bass-master extraordinaire Les Claypool and his legendary prog band Primus, have just announced show dates for the 2nd Annual Oddity Faire kicking off September 14, 2010. Claypool stated in a 2009 a press release that Oddity Faire, "Dwelled outside the box and broke beyond the parameters set by the safe pallet of the mainstream...Having trod the stages of such events as Lollapalooza, Woodstock ’94, Reading, Bonnaroo, etc., I’ve come to realize that there really hasn’t been an event that truly represented the type of creative individual that I am kin to.”
Performers rotate by region as this multifaceted event progressives through the tour, so be sure to check the line-up for your ...
Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
When you thought the summer's most potent Hip-Hop Festival Series couldn't get any better, Rock the Bells' organizers Guerilla Union announce Lauryn Hill will be performing a special set incorporating songs from her legendary debut album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.
If that wasn’t enough to have you tap your man back like, “Do you see this?” Wu-Tang Clan will be performing Enter The ...
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010
In this installment of Old Soul, I am going to share with you some rare live footage of the female-fronted funk group, The Brides of Funkenstein. In a nutshell, The Brides of Funkenstein were a female-fronted Parliament Funkadelic, and in my book, it doesn't get much better than that.
As with most of the P-Funk spin-off groups, the muscians backing the Brides were the same musicians that played in Parliament Funkadelic. Many different members of ...
Tuesday, June 8th, 2010
One of our all-time favorites, legendary crust punk outfit Drop Dead have announced they will be performing at this year's Foo Fest in their home turf of Providence, Rhode Island (we'll get to the rest Foo Fest's amazing line-up in just a moment). Drop Dead have been very selective about which live dates they pick up over the past few years and their August 14, Foo Fest performance is their only scheduled date this year! Formed in the early 1990, Drop Dead have etched a name for themselves as a defining band in the American crust punk movement. Adhering firmly to ...
Monday, June 7th, 2010
Epitaph has announced the Re-release of Refused's 1998 classic hardcore album The Shape of Punk to Come in a 3-disc, deluxe edition to hit streets June 8, 2010. Haling from Umeå, Sweden and formed in 1991, Refused saw 5 E.P.s and 3 Full-length releases before their breakup in 1998 which was documented in the DVD release of "The Refused Are Fucking Dead.," chronicling Refused's last year as a band. Although Refused were only active for 7 years, their music has maintained a far reaching impact across ...
Sunday, June 6th, 2010
The Tapes Your Mother Laid Out for You
First Installment: Depeche Mode – People Are People (1984)
By Andrew W. Miller
The Depeche Mode that most are familiar with is a British New Wave act, popular for breakthrough hits like "Personal Jesus." In fact, the group released six proper albums prior to Violator and had hits with songs like "People are People." However, many of these early albums were only available in Europe and Australia. It was only after the release of "People are People," originally released on Some Great Reward, that a North American audience was introduced to ...
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
In an interview with Exclaim!, Strike Anywhere discuss their departure from Fat Wreck Chords to Bridge Nine Records.
"It’s always reassuring to know that Richmond, VA’s Strike Anywhere are out there, playing their punk rock, defying the system, generally doing the same thing they’ve been doing for four albums and 11 years. Vocalist Thomas Barnett realizes the band play a very specific type of music, but feels they opened it up on their latest album, Iron Front, which they will be touring across Canada in support of as part of a North American tour.
“We know we play a genre, but we love it,” Barnett tells Exclaim! in a recent interview. “It’s what ...
Wednesday, May 26th, 2010
What a rough week for metal. We're still recovering from the death of metal legend Ronnie James Dio and only a few days afterward, post-everything metal prophets Isis, announced their breakup.
“This end isn't something that occurred over night and it hasn't been brought about by a single cataclysmic fracture in the band,” reads Isis's blog. “Simply put, ISIS has done everything we wanted to do, said everything we wanted to say. In the interest of preserving the love we have of this band, for each other, for the music made and for all the people who have continually supported us, it is time ...
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
Dwid Hellion of legendary hardcore band Integrity, sits down for a rare exclusive interview with Blow The Scene Editor-in-Chief, Joshua T Cohen on the eve of Integrity's newest release, The Blackest Curse.The new album hits the streets May 25 through Deathwishinc! Integrity are widely credited for not only having laid the foundation for metallic hardcore, but having continually defined the genre and influencing bands such as Converge, Hatebreed, and Rise and Fall, to name a few. Now over 20 years active in the music and art world, Dwid Hellion give our readers an inside look into his current influences and works, life in Belgium, and he ...
Monday, May 24th, 2010
We should have known better than to expect a "normal" album drop from new wave legends Devo, as they prepare to release their first new full-length album in 20 years! Earlier this month these quirky cats launched the Official Song Study where they gave listeners the chance to stream 16 unreleased tracks, of which, listeners could vote on the top 12 tracks he or she wanted to see make it on the album. Devo just posted a video response with the results.
Devo have dubbed the new album Something For Everybody, which is slated to hit the streets June 15 on Warner Bros. Records.
...
Sunday, May 23rd, 2010
For most fans of extreme music, The Maryland DeathFest is a summer metal party that needs no introduction. Since its in inception in 2003, The Maryland DeathFest has drawn in some of the most legendary bands from around the globe. The support for the fest is immense, with concertgoers that fly in from over two dozen countries and a band line-up that is equally as diverse. This year's line-up promises to continue the Maryland DeathFest's legacy as the premiere metal fest in the US. MDF Co-Founder, Ryan Taylor has taken time out of his incredibly busy schedule to give Blow The Scene readers ...
Friday, May 21st, 2010
The Summer Slaughter Tour is embarking on its third year of showcasing many of the top bands the extreme music scene has to offer. Although The Summer Slaughter Tour has only been in existence since 2007, it has quickly become one of the premier extreme metal tours featuring various death metal and metal fusion bands handpicked from around the Globe.
We're going to be featuring several bands on this tour throughout the upcoming weeks. Today we are going to focus on the headlining acts.
Headlining acts this year include Decapitated, The Faceless, and All Shall Perish.
Headliner Overview:...
Thursday, May 20th, 2010
Mike Sniper is the man behind Blank Dogs. I met up with Mike before a home turf performance at “weird night”(May 12,2010) in New York City and he told me all about what is going on in the scene today and why and how he is able to produce so much music. Sniper is a true musician with a vision in a world of copycats and kids that just want to be in bands.
Jane: So, you are playing NY Eye and Ear Fest. Are you excited with the New York scene right now? It’s pretty cool that there can be ...
Sunday, May 16th, 2010
This week I want to take you back to some live performances of a female powerhouse vocalist who toured with the James Brown Revue throughout the late 60s and early 70s. James Brown was quoted as saying she was the best singer he ever had in his band, and possibly the best singer he had ever witnessed. She is the widow of the late Bobby Byrd who was James Brown’s right-hand man and is credited with igniting James Brown’s career by taking his talent beyond the walls of the Georgia youth detention facility where Byrd and Brown met. But most importantly, she had a voice whose fire and feeling rivaled ...
Thursday, May 13th, 2010
Cleveland Hardcore Legends Integrity are dropping a new full length May 25! Now 20yrs deep in the game, with releases that have changed the coarse of metal and hardcore fusion forever; Integrity are releasing "The Blackest Curse." on an unsuspecting public through Deathwishinc.
"Integrity have been surrounded by myth, controversy, and legend for much of their almost 20 year existence. Along with fellow Cleveland monsters Ringworm, they are responsible for laying the foundation for metallic hardcore as we know it. Not only dictating, but literally defining the wave of musical darkness that continuously influences those at the forefront of the aggressive music scene. You can hear their direct influence in bands like Rot In ...
Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
Any lover of experimental music in the New York area should be aware of Pendu’s 3rd Annual Eye and Ear Fest! All acts are New York based and experimental in nature-but most of the similarities stop there. The diverse line-up promises that this will not be another endurance test music festival of the same thing over and over. Pendu’s website allows visitors to stream songs from each artist participating in the festival.
Check out the Pendu Presents NY Eye and Ear Fest and listen to everything that this festival has to offer!
Following Courtesy of Pendu's Facebook
Pendu presents: NY EYE & EAR FEST …a massive Annual Music ...
Monday, May 10th, 2010
Junior
Kaki King
Rounder Records
2010
Genres: Indie Rock/Pop, Instrumental Rock, Modern Folk
RIYL: Sleater-Kinney, Preston Reed, Do Make Say Think
8.3Kaki King was once heralded as “Queen of the Acoustic Guitar” by NPR and several guitar magazines. Her second LP and groundbreaking major label debut Legs to Make Us Longer won fans over with its sensational crossover appeal. It was simultaneously a pleasure to the ears of guitar acrobatic-aficionados who enjoy artists such as Preston Reed and John Fahey, and it also found a niche with singer-songwriter types that enjoyed her unconventional yet catchy song structures.
While her first two albums were mostly instrumental forays into her musical vocabulary, complete with tapping sections and her ability ...
Blow The Scene Interview with Aaron Turner of Isis
Adam Rauf, Staff Writer
All images by Seth Ballentine, Staff Photographer
On June 16, 2010, Blow The Scene staff writer Adam Rauf caught up with Aaron Turner of Isis a few hours before their Washington DC performance with Melvins as part of their final tour.
Isis is arguably one of the most influential metal bands of this decade, putting an emphasis on heavy riffs, spacey leads, ...
Bass-master extraordinaire Les Claypool and his legendary prog band Primus, have just announced show dates for the 2nd Annual Oddity Faire kicking off September 14, 2010. Claypool stated in a 2009 a press release that Oddity Faire, "Dwelled outside the box and broke beyond the parameters set by the safe pallet of the mainstream...Having trod the stages of such events as Lollapalooza, Woodstock ’94, Reading, Bonnaroo, etc., I’ve come to realize that there really hasn’t been an event that truly represented the type of creative individual that I am kin to.”
Performers rotate by region as this multifaceted event progressives through the tour, so be sure to check the line-up for your ...
When you thought the summer's most potent Hip-Hop Festival Series couldn't get any better, Rock the Bells' organizers Guerilla Union announce Lauryn Hill will be performing a special set incorporating songs from her legendary debut album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.
If that wasn’t enough to have you tap your man back like, “Do you see this?” Wu-Tang Clan will be performing Enter The ...
In this installment of Old Soul, I am going to share with you some rare live footage of the female-fronted funk group, The Brides of Funkenstein. In a nutshell, The Brides of Funkenstein were a female-fronted Parliament Funkadelic, and in my book, it doesn't get much better than that.
As with most of the P-Funk spin-off groups, the muscians backing the Brides were the same musicians that played in Parliament Funkadelic. Many different members of ...
One of our all-time favorites, legendary crust punk outfit Drop Dead have announced they will be performing at this year's Foo Fest in their home turf of Providence, Rhode Island (we'll get to the rest Foo Fest's amazing line-up in just a moment). Drop Dead have been very selective about which live dates they pick up over the past few years and their August 14, Foo Fest performance is their only scheduled date this year! Formed in the early 1990, Drop Dead have etched a name for themselves as a defining band in the American crust punk movement. Adhering firmly to ...
Epitaph has announced the Re-release of Refused's 1998 classic hardcore album The Shape of Punk to Come in a 3-disc, deluxe edition to hit streets June 8, 2010. Haling from Umeå, Sweden and formed in 1991, Refused saw 5 E.P.s and 3 Full-length releases before their breakup in 1998 which was documented in the DVD release of "The Refused Are Fucking Dead.," chronicling Refused's last year as a band. Although Refused were only active for 7 years, their music has maintained a far reaching impact across ...
The Tapes Your Mother Laid Out for You
First Installment: Depeche Mode – People Are People (1984)
By Andrew W. Miller
The Depeche Mode that most are familiar with is a British New Wave act, popular for breakthrough hits like "Personal Jesus." In fact, the group released six proper albums prior to Violator and had hits with songs like "People are People." However, many of these early albums were only available in Europe and Australia. It was only after the release of "People are People," originally released on Some Great Reward, that a North American audience was introduced to ...
In an interview with Exclaim!, Strike Anywhere discuss their departure from Fat Wreck Chords to Bridge Nine Records.
"It’s always reassuring to know that Richmond, VA’s Strike Anywhere are out there, playing their punk rock, defying the system, generally doing the same thing they’ve been doing for four albums and 11 years. Vocalist Thomas Barnett realizes the band play a very specific type of music, but feels they opened it up on their latest album, Iron Front, which they will be touring across Canada in support of as part of a North American tour.
“We know we play a genre, but we love it,” Barnett tells Exclaim! in a recent interview. “It’s what ...
What a rough week for metal. We're still recovering from the death of metal legend Ronnie James Dio and only a few days afterward, post-everything metal prophets Isis, announced their breakup.
“This end isn't something that occurred over night and it hasn't been brought about by a single cataclysmic fracture in the band,” reads Isis's blog. “Simply put, ISIS has done everything we wanted to do, said everything we wanted to say. In the interest of preserving the love we have of this band, for each other, for the music made and for all the people who have continually supported us, it is time ...
Dwid Hellion of legendary hardcore band Integrity, sits down for a rare exclusive interview with Blow The Scene Editor-in-Chief, Joshua T Cohen on the eve of Integrity's newest release, The Blackest Curse.The new album hits the streets May 25 through Deathwishinc! Integrity are widely credited for not only having laid the foundation for metallic hardcore, but having continually defined the genre and influencing bands such as Converge, Hatebreed, and Rise and Fall, to name a few. Now over 20 years active in the music and art world, Dwid Hellion give our readers an inside look into his current influences and works, life in Belgium, and he ...
We should have known better than to expect a "normal" album drop from new wave legends Devo, as they prepare to release their first new full-length album in 20 years! Earlier this month these quirky cats launched the Official Song Study where they gave listeners the chance to stream 16 unreleased tracks, of which, listeners could vote on the top 12 tracks he or she wanted to see make it on the album. Devo just posted a video response with the results.
Devo have dubbed the new album Something For Everybody, which is slated to hit the streets June 15 on Warner Bros. Records.
...
For most fans of extreme music, The Maryland DeathFest is a summer metal party that needs no introduction. Since its in inception in 2003, The Maryland DeathFest has drawn in some of the most legendary bands from around the globe. The support for the fest is immense, with concertgoers that fly in from over two dozen countries and a band line-up that is equally as diverse. This year's line-up promises to continue the Maryland DeathFest's legacy as the premiere metal fest in the US. MDF Co-Founder, Ryan Taylor has taken time out of his incredibly busy schedule to give Blow The Scene readers ...
The Summer Slaughter Tour is embarking on its third year of showcasing many of the top bands the extreme music scene has to offer. Although The Summer Slaughter Tour has only been in existence since 2007, it has quickly become one of the premier extreme metal tours featuring various death metal and metal fusion bands handpicked from around the Globe.
We're going to be featuring several bands on this tour throughout the upcoming weeks. Today we are going to focus on the headlining acts.
Headlining acts this year include Decapitated, The Faceless, and All Shall Perish.
Headliner Overview:...
Mike Sniper is the man behind Blank Dogs. I met up with Mike before a home turf performance at “weird night”(May 12,2010) in New York City and he told me all about what is going on in the scene today and why and how he is able to produce so much music. Sniper is a true musician with a vision in a world of copycats and kids that just want to be in bands.
Jane: So, you are playing NY Eye and Ear Fest. Are you excited with the New York scene right now? It’s pretty cool that there can be ...
This week I want to take you back to some live performances of a female powerhouse vocalist who toured with the James Brown Revue throughout the late 60s and early 70s. James Brown was quoted as saying she was the best singer he ever had in his band, and possibly the best singer he had ever witnessed. She is the widow of the late Bobby Byrd who was James Brown’s right-hand man and is credited with igniting James Brown’s career by taking his talent beyond the walls of the Georgia youth detention facility where Byrd and Brown met. But most importantly, she had a voice whose fire and feeling rivaled ...
Cleveland Hardcore Legends Integrity are dropping a new full length May 25! Now 20yrs deep in the game, with releases that have changed the coarse of metal and hardcore fusion forever; Integrity are releasing "The Blackest Curse." on an unsuspecting public through Deathwishinc.
"Integrity have been surrounded by myth, controversy, and legend for much of their almost 20 year existence. Along with fellow Cleveland monsters Ringworm, they are responsible for laying the foundation for metallic hardcore as we know it. Not only dictating, but literally defining the wave of musical darkness that continuously influences those at the forefront of the aggressive music scene. You can hear their direct influence in bands like Rot In ...
Any lover of experimental music in the New York area should be aware of Pendu’s 3rd Annual Eye and Ear Fest! All acts are New York based and experimental in nature-but most of the similarities stop there. The diverse line-up promises that this will not be another endurance test music festival of the same thing over and over. Pendu’s website allows visitors to stream songs from each artist participating in the festival.
Check out the Pendu Presents NY Eye and Ear Fest and listen to everything that this festival has to offer!
Following Courtesy of Pendu's Facebook
Pendu presents: NY EYE & EAR FEST …a massive Annual Music ...
Junior
Kaki King
Rounder Records
2010
Genres: Indie Rock/Pop, Instrumental Rock, Modern Folk
RIYL: Sleater-Kinney, Preston Reed, Do Make Say Think
8.3
Kaki King was once heralded as “Queen of the Acoustic Guitar” by NPR and several guitar magazines. Her second LP and groundbreaking major label debut Legs to Make Us Longer won fans over with its sensational crossover appeal. It was simultaneously a pleasure to the ears of guitar acrobatic-aficionados who enjoy artists such as Preston Reed and John Fahey, and it also found a niche with singer-songwriter types that enjoyed her unconventional yet catchy song structures.
While her first two albums were mostly instrumental forays into her musical vocabulary, complete with tapping sections and her ability ...