watch The Well’s new “Raven” video ++ new tour dates added
The Well's tour hits Brooklyn with Heavy Temple tonight (10/23).
Zig Zags
Levitation 2019 adds Flaming Lips, Flipper, Mercury Rev, Black Marble & more
TR/ST, Tobacco, Beak>, Lala Lala, Ryley Walker, David J, Night Beats, and more have also been added to the 2019 Levitation Festival runs November 7-10 in downtown Austin.
Levitation fest: initial 2019 lineup (Kurt Vile, Angel Olsen, John Cale, more)
The 2019 edition of Austin's Levitation festival, one of our picks of non-Coachella fests that are worth attending, happens November 7-10 in downtown Austin.
24 New Songs Out Today
Listen to new songs by Cate Le Bon, Foxygen, The Cranberries, The Dream Syndicate, Earth, Peter Perrett (The Only Ones), Lydia Ainsworth, Full of Hell, State Faults, Kash Doll, and more.
heavy psych comp ‘Brown Acid 8′ coming (stream Grump’s Elvis Presley cover)
This one includes ten rarities from Attack, White Rock, Riverside, Luke and The Apostles, Tourists, Bartos Brothers Band, Inside Experience, Karma, Moloch, and Grump.
Zig-Zags releasing LP on RidingEasy (stream “Punk Fucking Metal”)
LA's Zig-Zags have been at it for a while, finding the middle ground between raw garage punk and classic metal, and their upcoming album They'll Never Take Us Alive -- their first for RidingEasy Records -- is some of their most metal stuff yet.
Unnatural Helpers releasing “lost” EP (listen to “Long List of Complaints”)
The EP is from the first, early-'00s era of the band which featured main man Dean Whitmore backed by Lars Finberg (The Intelligence) and Jed Maheu (Zig Zags).
Zebulon L.A. opens this week (pics, initial schedule)
The Los Angeles reboot of Williamsburg, Brooklyn's much-missed club is finally set to open.
Zig-Zags on Marc Maron’s WTF podcast this week, prep new 7″ (listen), touring
LA punk rippers Zig Zags have a new 7" coming out on Famous Class with "Ripping Death" on one side and "Riddle of Steel" on the flip. Appropriate for the record's Trump-ian cover art, it's pressed on limited edition “spray tan orange” vinyl...
Mean Jeans touring to The Fest, playing Brooklyn & Baltimore’s U+NFest 5 too
Baltimore's U+NFest also has ESG, Celebration, Terry Malts, ESCAPE-ISM (Ian Svenonius), Permanent Waves (Christina Billotte of Slant 6 / Quixotic), and more.