Locrian

99 musicians contribute to the album which keeps a steady tempo of 99 beats per minute. Other guests include Mouse on Mars, clipping, Max Tundra, JG Thirlwell, members of Pig Destroyer, Locrian, and more.

Listen to new songs by Michael Chapman (ft. Bridget St. John), a collaboration between Matthew Caws (Nada Surf) & John Davis (Superdrag), Machinefabriek (ft. Marissa Nadler), Spielbergs, and more.

Thursday may be back, but that isn't stopping frontman Geoff Rickly from working with his other projects. His screamo band United Nations have announced some shows, including Boston and Brooklyn with RLYR. Those two shows are part of a tour for RLYR (pronounced "relayer"), which is something of a supergroup with Steven Hess (Locrian), Colin DeKuiper (Bloodiest, ex-Russian Circles) and Trevor Shelley de Brauw (Pelican)...

Unless you're one of those people who can't stand screaming at all, is a record that should impress fans of most forms of non-commercial rock music (metal and non-metal included)...

Metal is one of those genres with fans who love to debate whether or not a band is in fact "metal." One band that often finds themselves a subject of these debates is Chicago's Locr...

The Pitchfork Music Festival happens this weekend in Chicago (7/17-7/19), featuring performances from Wilco, Sleater-Kinney, Chance the Rapper, Future Islands, The New Pornographers, Run the Jewels, Caribou, Panda Bear, Todd Terje & the Olsens, Mac Demarco, Kurt Vile and loads more. Br...

Let's call Chapel Hill, NC's Solar Halos a "notable side project" to avoid the dreaded SG-word; the band features Horseback and Caltrop drummer John Crouch, former Horseback guitarist/singer Nora Rogers, and Fin Fang Foom bassist Eddie Sanchez...

It's been a transitional year for A.V. Club. The print version of The Onion ceased publication, and much of AVC's senior staff jumped ship for Pitchfork's new film site, The Dissolve...

Inter Arma @ Hopscotch 2013 (more. Gilead Media label-mates Ash Borer, Mutilation Rites (who play Saint Vitus December 12 with Revenge), Inter Arma (who embark on a tour with Black Tusk soon that hits Saint Vitus on October 30), Thou and more will lead what is already a doozy of a lineup...

Locrian completed short string of dates over the weekend, including Friday's stop at Saint Vitus (June 28). The shows were in celebration of the band's latest offering, Return to Annhilation (recently reviewed and currently streaming), which hit store shelves last week via Relapse Records...