Rob Crow, John Reis, and Atom Willard meet up in a new fiery indie-punk band, who just released their first song and have live shows and a debut LP on the way...
The album was recorded during Obits‘ 2012 Australian tour. “If you know our band and went to one of our shows, this will sound familiar,“ says the band‘s Sohrab Habibion. “If we’re new to you, but you have equal amounts of affection for AC/DC and CCR as you do Wire and The Wipers, then together we shall set the dingoes free.”
With concerts still cancelled, we recommend these classic live videos of Jets To Brazil, Jimmy Eat World, Pedro the Lion, Rilo Kiley, Rainer Maria, Sunny Day Real Estate, and more...
Today's picks for live videos to watch while you're home and every show is cancelled include Archers of Loaf in 1994, Drive Like Jehu at CBGB in 1995, Black Uhuru, Rockpile (Nick Lowe) and more...
The playlist includes music by Weezer, Fugazi, The Promise Ring, Sugar, Wilco, Jawbreaker, Elliott Smith, Sebadoh, Christie Front Drive, Superchunk, Pedro The Lion, Drive Like Jehu, Archers of Loaf, and more.
...the sound quality is absolutely top-level, and I have never been to a festival that offers comfortable balcony seating with waiters attending to you should you require a rest for your weary feet and a $15 Goose Island. And ultimately seeing a crowd full of stoned, dirty, good-natured metalheads overrun a casino was a sight I'll probably never see again...
The stacked festival has Alice Cooper, Blue Oyster Cult, Truth & Janey, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Pentagram, Candlemass, Sleep, Electric Wizard, Boris, Baroness, Drive Like Jehu, Converge, and much more.
"I wanna make sure it sounds perfect, just like the download," John Reis joked between songs toward the end of Drive Like Jehu’s set at a packed Irving Plaza on Friday night (8/12)...
Tons of great stuff went down on Saturday that I wasn't able to see, like Deerhunter, The Julie Ruin, The Bouncing Souls, Cold Cave, Ceremony and Good Riddance, but the highs of what I did catch were very high. My favorite set of the day hands down was Gorilla Biscuits, who played last on the Heaven stage...