Shiner’s Allen Epley releasing debut solo album (stream “Thousand Yard Stare”)
Shiner/The Life and Times leader Allen Epley refers to his new solo album as ”space country,” and you can get a taste from lead single ”Thousand Yard Stare.”
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Jawbox add tour dates; J Robbins releases two-song solo single
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 add openers: Velvet Teen, Craig Wedren, No Knife, Justin Pierre, more
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 playing NYC after Fest (where they play with Hum, City of Caterpillar, more)
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...
Pelican/5ive offshoot INTRCPTR releasing debut album (stream “Sandstorms”)
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)...
Besnard Lakes prep new 12″ (listen to “Laura Lee”), touring w/ The Life & Times
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...
Spotlights covered Mew, playing NYC with The Life and Times this weekend
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...
The Life and Times releasing a new LP, touring with Deleted Scenes (dates & song streams)
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...
Shiner reunites for US dates (including Irving Plaza)
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...
Get Up Kids tour (3 NYC dates, presale), Jonah Matranga too
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)...