Wednesday, June 5th, 2013
Blow The Scene‘s New Music Now column is back as we give you the quick and essential run down on 10 current hot releases from Heartless, Kylesa, Nails, Baptists, Deafheaven, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Full of Hell, Night Birds, Blood Ceremony, and newcomers Englemaker!
Band: Heartless
Album: Certain Death 7"
Record Label: Halo of Flies / Alerta Antifascista Records.
Hometown: Pittsburgh, PA
Available: Now
FFO: Nasum, Full of Hell
"Certain Death is an incredibly heavy 7” that blends hardcore, metal, and grindcore in an astoundingly impressive way. This is music to destroy property to. The production value is there, ...
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013
If you were putting the Summer of 2013 into Seinfeldian terms, you may want to consider referring to it as The Summer of Night Birds. Nearly two years after the release of their cult-classic debut LP The Other Side of Darkness, Grave Mistake Records (US) and Taken By Surprise Records (Europe) will deliver Night Birds' second full-length, Born to Die in Suburbia on July 9th. On it, Night Birds have outdone themselves once again - honing their style on Born to Die in Suburbia, delivering 14 tracks of scintillating hardcore punk - refashioning the dark overtones and surfy inflections of early '80s Cali punk for a ...
Friday, February 1st, 2013
New Jersey's practitioners of infectious garage-influenced punk rock, Night Birds have linked up with Fat Wreck Chords for a forthcoming 7" due out March 7th.
The Fat Wreck crew had this to say in recent Press Release:
Hell yes! We’ve been longtime fans of East Coast surf punks Night Birds and after heated contract negotiations and the promise of new leather jackets (for us, duh), they agreed to give us a 7-inch! Maimed for the Masses is a proper 4-song EP and will see the light of day on May 7th. The title track will be your first bloody taste of their upcoming full length, Born To ...
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2012
The 12" vinyl release of New Jersey's Night Birds Fresh Kills Vol. 1 singles and demo collection (originally released on CD format in 2011) is out now, courtesy of Richmond's Grave Mistake Records. Fresh Kills Vol. 1 consists of the band's first three now out-of-print 7" singles and 2009 demo. The band will also play two record release shows - the first on August 23rd in Philadelphia at Golden Tea House and the second on August 25th at the Acheron in Brooklyn, with more East Coast dates to follow through the fall (all tour ...
Wednesday, July 11th, 2012
August 21st will see the 12" vinyl release of New Jersey/New York's Night Birds Fresh Kills Vol. 1 singles and demo collection (originally released on CD format in 2011), courtesy of Richmond's Grave Mistake Records. The album will consist of the band's first three now out of print 7" singles and 2009 demo. It can currently be streamed at the Grave Mistake Records Bandcamp player below.
Preorders will be available from both the band and the label in early August and the band will have advanced copies on the road with them for their upcoming ...
Thursday, May 24th, 2012
London's own godfathers of Oi!, Cock Sparrer, kicked off a set of rare appearances last week at Philadelphia's Union Transfer venue with a bulletproof cast of supporting acts that included NYC legends, Cro-Mags, Eastern PA's working class hardcore titans, Wisdom in Chains, and New Jersey's rising surf-tinged-punk-rockers, Night Birds. Presented by Joe Hardcore and his Philly Hardcore Shows booking group, also in conjunction with local promotion super-stars, R5-- What was originally slated for just one night of legendary performances headed by Cock ...
Wednesday, April 4th, 2012
New Jersey/New York-based punk band Night Birds has announced a round of upcoming spring and summer dates this week. The dates include Sound & Fury Fest in Santa Barbara, CA, The Fest 11 in Gainesville, FL, Ottawa Explosion Fest in Ottowa, ON, Bernard College's WBAR-B-Q in New York, Insubordination Fest in Baltimore, MD, No Suck Fest in Honolulu, Hawaii, and Road to Ruin Fest in Philly. Additionally this spring will see Night Birds playing several shows on the East Coast, including an in-store ...
Thursday, March 22nd, 2012
New York City's legendary punk titans, The Casualties ripped through Philadelphia's Barbary venue last week with an incredibly solid show package featuring Toxic Holocaust, Night Birds, and Combat Crisis brought to you by Philly Hardcore Shows promotion group.
Philadelphia locals and sturdy street punk practitioners, Combat Crisis set the evening off with a blistering set that spanned song selections from their debut LP, Face the Crowd, and latest EP, Philly Streets. One of the best punk outfits in Philadelphia, Combat ...
Thursday, February 16th, 2012
New York/New Jersey-based punk band Night Birds have announced a slew of upcoming East Coast tour dates this spring, including shows with legendary punk and hardcore bands Cocksparrer, Cro-Mags, Screeching Weasel, The Queers, and Pissed Jeans (tour dates below). The dates, which kick off this weekend in Long Island with World-Inferno Friendship Society, are only a hint of what is to come for the band; they have just announced 4 shows in Hawaii as part of this summer's No Suck Fest, and a summer West Coast US and Canada tour is in the works.
Night Birds are also scheduled to appear live on ...
Monday, December 5th, 2011
Brooklyn's Night Birds have been making waves with their latest LP on Grave Mistake Records, The Other Side of Darkness, as the band fuses the best elements of surf rock and garage punk into an engaging amalgamation of poignant and catchy tunes that appeal to a wide spectrum of music lovers. It is not uncommon to see the band thrown on bills with hard hitting street punk bands or melodic indie bands, as the group's signature sound draws from a wide range of rock and punk history that appeals to an eclectic array of music lovers.
We recently featured ...
Friday, September 23rd, 2011
Today we launch new weekly column Review Rundown, where we get down to brass tacks on a half-dozen recent/forthcoming releases each week, pulled from all genres with no restrictions. The idea for this column came as I have been talking to several of my friends who also head online mags, and the fact that reviews are consistently the least popular, least-viewed aspects of online mags. It makes sense really. Why sit through a 30-minute review when you could just listen to album through various sources all over the Web? Occasionally an album is so breathtakingly awesome that it requires an archeological record, but for the most part, music fans just want to be pointed in the right direction and ...
Band: Heartless
Album: Certain Death 7"
Record Label: Halo of Flies / Alerta Antifascista Records.
Hometown: Pittsburgh, PA
Available: Now
FFO: Nasum, Full of Hell
"Certain Death is an incredibly heavy 7” that blends hardcore, metal, and grindcore in an astoundingly impressive way. This is music to destroy property to. The production value is there, ...
