The Life and Times

Jawbox's tour schedule now includes their first UK show since the '90s, and frontman J Robbins has released a new solo song backed by a John Cale cover...

Jawbox recently announced openers for the East Coast dates on their upcoming reunion tour, and now they've announced openers for almost all of the other dates too...

Grade's show at The Fest is with fellow reunited bands Hum, City of Caterpillar, Majority Rule, and Career Suicide. After that, they play the Slip Productions 20th anniversary in NYC...

INTRCPTR is a new instrumental rock duo with members of two well-respected instrumental rock bands: drummer Larry Herweg of Pelican and guitarist Ben Carr of 5ive (the Boston band, not the British boy band)...

Montreal's great The Besnard Lakes will release a new 12" single, Are The Divine Wind, this Friday (2/3) which features two songs written at the same time as the ones that made up last year's A Coliseum Complex Museum but weren't used for the album...

After being handpicked to open for the Deftones earlier this year, Brooklyn's Spotlights are playing another well-matched bill with Shiner offshoot The Life and Times this weekend. They also covered Mew...

Post-hardcore vets Shiner briefly reunited in 2012, but now that that's in the past, singer Allen Epley is back fronting The Life and Times, the band he formed after Shiner's initial breakup...

Art for Shiner's Shiner was a band from Kansas City, Missouri that was active from 1992 to 2003. The group formed in 1992, and quickly found wide exposure, releasing a vinyl EP in 1993 and touring with acts such as Sunny Day Real Estate, Chore, Jawbox, Season to Risk, The Jesus Lizard, and Girls Against Boys...

The Get-Up Kids The Get Up Kids came back strong earlier in the year, playing a few shows including a pair in the NYC-area at Bamboozle and a quickly sold-out Gramercy Theater (setlist below)...