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Signing Stories: Psycroptic
Date Signed: May 2025 Label: Metal Blade Records Band Members: Dave Haley, drums; Joe Haley, guitars; Jason Peppiatt, vocals; Jason Keyser, vocals; Todd Stern, bass Type of Music: Tasmanian Death Metal ... -
Live Review of Cory Hanson
Neurolux Boise, ID Contact: joe@groundcontroltouring.com Web: dragcity.com/artists/cory-hanson Players: Cory Hanson, vocals, piano, guitar; Evan Backer, bass; Evan Burrows, drums, percussion; Heather Lockie, viola; Emily Elkin, cello; Erik KM Clark, violin; ... -
Album Review of "Live EP" by Led Zeppelin (4/10)
Rhino Producer: Jimmy Page Archival Led Zeppelin material almost always boils down to semantics, and this collection of four songs is the ultimate case in point. You’ll be misled unless ... -
Signing Stories: Pretty Rude
Date Signed: September 2024 Label: SideOneDummy Records Type of Music: Indie Rock Publicity: Caroline Borolla, Clarion Call Media A&R: Phil Bender-Simon Web: prettyrude.bandcamp.com When two business entities enter into contract ... -
Album Review of "Songs in the Key of Yikes" by Superchunk (8/10)
Merge Records Engineers: Paul Voran, Eli Webb Jon Wurster—one of indie-rock’s most adored—left the Superchunk fold in early 2023, because his "heart just [wasn't] in it anymore." Superchunk then made ... -
Sooper Records
Founded in 2016 by artists NNAMDÏ, Sen Morimoto, and Glenn Curran—who met as fellow forward-thinking members of Chicago’s perennially underrated music community—Sooper Records is an ambitious labor of profound love. ... -
Album Review of "Moisturizer" by Wet Leg (9/10)
Domino Recording Co. Ltd. Producer: Dan Carey Moisturizer is only the second LP by the British indie-rockers, and boy, does it not show. “Catch These Fists” is a song Interpol ... -
Album Review of "Burn Cruise" by Leafblower (7/10)
Max Trax Records Producer: Leafblower In May 2023, Omaha, NE sludge servants Leafblower introduced themselves with an EP that didn’t so much entice as repel curious listeners of the doom ... -
Album Review of "Adventure Club" by Laura Jane Grace & In The Trauma Tropes (8/10)
Polyvinyl Records Producers: Laura Jane Grace, Jacopho Fokas & the Onassis Foundation Against Me! musical maven Laura Jane Grace came out as transgender 13 years ago and hasn’t flinched at ... -
Signing Stories: Noumenia
Date Signed: March 2025 Label: Eclipse Records Type of Music: Post-Groove Metal Management: Chris Poland, Eclipse Records Booking: Chris Poland Publicity: Chris Poland, press@eclipserecords.com A&R: Chris Poland Web: facebook.com/noumeniaband Go ... -
Share It Music Revels in Community Building, Not Profits
The new permutation of DIY that’s surging among those who believe in the punk rock philosophy is creating a primordial soup from which young music fans are fishing out some ... -
Tip Jar: Todd Trainer — Inside the Mind of a Drummer
Who among us hasn’t spent at least a few minutes during a concert wondering what goes on in the mind of the drummer, the wooden stick-wielder who holds the show ... -
Signing Stories: Shadows Fall
Date Signed:July 2024 Label: MNRK Heavy Type of Music:Hard Rock, Metal Management:SL Management Booking:Mike Monterulo TKO Publicity:Atom Splitter PR A&R: Scott Givens Web: shadowsfallmusic.com Shadows Fall have, as they say, ... -
Signing Stories: Autumn Kings
Date Signed: August 2024 Label: Hopeless Records Band Members: Jake Diab, Joe Coccimiglio Type of Music: Rock Management: Unchained Management - Jason Rudolph, Matt Bacon Booking: Jason Parent - Sound ... -
Signing Story with Bite the Hand
Date Signed: June 2024 Label: Wiretap Records Band Members: Echo Breen, Daniel Rancourt, Forest Walldorf, Conner Williams, Justynn Willingham Type of Music: Emo/ Hardcore/ Punk Booking: ziaxqueen@gmail.com Publicity: Mike Cubillos ... -
Signing Story with Penny Bored
Date Signed: November 2024 Label: Open Your Ears Records Type of Music: Pop-Rock Publicity: Becky Kovach - Big Picture Media Web: linktr.ee/pennyboredband A&R: Adam Hickok - Open Your Ears Records ... -
Signing Story with Cryptopsy
Date Signed: June 2024 Label: Season of Mist Band Members: Flo Mounier, drums; Matt McGachy, vocals; Christian Donaldson, guitar; Oli Pinard, bass Type of Music: Death metal Booking: U.S.: Continental ... -
Album Review of "As it Ever Was, So it Will Be Again" by The Decemberists ...
YABB Records Producer: Tucker Martine If you love history, and if you love indie-rock at its most pleasant, The Decemberists are the band for you. We’ve enjoed the band going ... -
Signing Story with Rockers Cursive
Date Signed: March 25, 2024 Label: Run for Cover Type of Music: Rock Management: Paul Clegg - Cursive Booking: Eric Dimenstein - Ground Control Legal: Matthew Kaplan Publicity: Amanda Pitts, ... -
Signing Story with Mammoth Black Metal troupe Cloak
Date Signed: April 2024 Label: Metal Blade Records Type of Music: Black metal Management: Mark A. Vieira - Parts Unknown Artist Management Booking: Liam Frith - TKO Booking Publicity: Liz ...
