Stiff Little Fingers at the Granada: photo gallery
Stiff Little Fingerswith Death By Unga BungaThe Granada, LawrenceSunday, September 17
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Category Archives: punk
Interview: A Giant Dog
Interview: A Giant Dog
It seems like many articles on Austin’s A Giant Dog tend to focus on the band’s stage shows and the things which happen when vocalist Sabrina Ellis performs. What seems to get shunted to the side is the actual studio music, the band having released three very excellent albums â Fight, Bone, and Pile â with a fourth, Toy, out today on Merge Records. The music of A Giant Dog is driving, pulsating stuff, and it’s never been more apparent than on Toy‘s first single, âBendover.â It’s a big â nay, huge â blast of punk rock with the power of a ’70s arena band. We’re so besotted with it that this where we started our phone conversation with Ellis and guitarist Andrew Cashen as they drove from Austin to Portland to play a show with their other band, Sweet Spirit.
Vinyl Review: Various Artists â Closer To The Grave (15 Years Of Tor Johnson)
Vinyl Review: Various Artists â Closer To The Grave (15 Years Of Tor Johnson)
Five years ago, Tor Johnson Records celebrated their 10th anniversary with a 7-inch compilation, featuring songs from Saint Jude, Now Denial, Pretty Faces, and A Fine Boat, That Coffin. It came housed in a handmade, screen-printed jacket made from recycled LP sleeves, and included a download code for more than twice as many digital bonus tracks, featuring the likes of Weak Teeth and Jesuscentric. It was a cool reflection on how the label had evolved over its first decade.
Talking Lawrence Beer Company’s opening party with the brewery’s Matt Williams and the Mighty Mighty Bosstones’ Dicky Barrett
Talking Lawrence Beer Company’s opening party with the brewery’s Matt Williams and the Mighty Mighty Bosstones’ Dicky Barrett
Friday, the Lawrence Beer Company kicks off its existence with a big street party, featuring veteran ska-punk act the Mighty Mighty Bosstones. It’s the cu…
Downtown Boys talk punk shows & accessibility in advance of their Monday show in Lawrence
Downtown Boys talk punk shows & accessibility in advance of their Monday show in Lawrence
Downtown BoysMiguel RosarioWith 2015’s Full Communism on Don Giovanni, Providence’s Downtown Boys drew wide acclaim for music that attacked capitalism, a…
Green Day brought the crowd onstage last night at the Sprint Center
Green Day brought the crowd onstage last night at the Sprint Center
Nick SpacekGreen Day The Sprint CenterFriday, August 11 Crowd participation was the theme of last night’s Green Day show at the Sprint Center. The arena w…
Review of Exterminators’ ‘Product of America’ at Modern Vinyl
A band returning to record material years after the fact isn’t unheard of: the Sloths put out an album on Burger, 50 years after recording their only single, “Makin’ Love,” in 1965, and it’s absolutely fantastic. But for a band to return 40 years later to the material and seemingly be angrier than the majority of most young punks? It’s positively astonishing.
Read the full review at Modern Vinyl. Published 1/23/17
Black Friday Record Store Day roundups
KC’s record shops were a busy delight Friday morning and afternoon. The Black Friday installment of Record Store Day might not inspire the sort of fervent capitalistic enthusiasm of its better-known April counterpart, but this particular cold gray morning seemed to keep people at home drinking coffee a little longer than usual.
Read a round-up of the goings-on at various KC record shops at the Pitch. Published 11/28/16
With Black Friday just around the corner, we know you’ll find yourself beginning to seek out cool and interesting gifts for friends and family. Rather than buying another iTunes gift card for that stocking stuffer, we suggest you head out to one of the many excellent local record shops to buy an actual physical release from a local act. Whether it’s a benefit album, pop, metal, or lo-fi punk, there should be something for all tastes in this roundup of the latest local releases.
Read a round-up of the best local releases to snag on Black Friday, also at the Pitch. Published 11/22/16
Review of My Chemical Romance’s ‘The Black Parade/Living With Ghosts’ at Modern Vinyl
While not the reunion so many hoped for when first teased via social media, the 10th anniversary edition of My Chemical Romance’s magnum opus, The Black Parade, is still something to celebrate. Given that the original pressing of the LP fetches rather exorbitant prices, and the 2015 repress is on colored vinyl, being able to get one’s hand on a plain black wax copy for less than $50 is glory enough. Throwing in a bonus LP of demos is just icing on the cake for those of us wanting to spin this on wax.
Read the full review at Modern Vinyl. Published 10/18/16
Premiere of Hipshot Killer’s Too Much Rock single at the Pitch
For the fifth entry in Too Much Rock’s singles series, label head Sid Sowder chose Kansas City’s Hipshot Killer to follow the format of original A-side, cover-song B-side. The KC trio has answered with a brilliantly vibrant new song, “All the Hell in the World,” which sums up the band’s ability to create emotionally powerful music.
Listen to the track and read interviews with TMR’s Sid Sowder and HSK’s Mike Alexander at the Pitch. Published 10/10/16