Rolling Stone Interviews Clutch Frontman Neil Fallon!

Clutch Frontman Decodes His Sinister Lyrical Visions
by Robert Mancini

Stoner rock stallwarts Clutch return to the road next month, giving fans another chance to congregate and bark along to frontman Neil Fallon’s madman sermons of robot overlords, government cover-ups and long dead civilizations.

Fallon’s bon mots, turns of phrase and sidewalk preacher screeds have carved a unique space for Clutch in the heavy music landscape. And the man who gave us lines like “shadow of the New Praetorian / tipping cows in fields Elysian” and “life inside the biosphere, dodecahedron fever’s here / sporting scarlet letters of genetic imperfection, dear” is once again in blissfully twisted form on Strange Cousins from the West, giving us a paranoid pastiche of assassins, drifters, backwoods monsters and chemical weapons. But how are these sinister visions born?

Read the full interview w/ Neil Fallon of Clutch here!

The NY Times, Village Voice + More Cover The Bouncing Souls 20 Year Anniversary Shows!

click to read live reviews in:
The NY Times * Village Voice * Brooklyn Vegan (Thursday) * Brooklyn Vegan (Friday) * NJ Star Ledger * Prefixmag.com

MetalSucks Talks To Keelhaul Drummer Will Scharf!

KEELHAUL’S WILL SCHARF GIVES GOOD INTERVIEW



Here’s how Keelhaul drummer Will Scharf introduced himself and the band via e-mail: “I understand you’re doing research on senility, bad potty habits, and coping with walkers and Metamucil. We are the perfect subjects.” Old and incontinent Scharf may be, but he’s also hilarious, and a motherfucker of a drummer. There’s heavy jams and scrumptious fills a-plenty on Keelhaul’s new album Triumphant Return to Obscurity, out August 18th on Hydra Head, the Cleveland math- metallers’ first release in six years. It offers the kind of ultra-tight, largely instrumental ass-whuppin’ that just doesn’t come around that often anymore.

(((Read the full interview here!)))

Black Feelings Announce Debut Album on Alien8 Recordings!

Black Feelings
Announce Debut Self-Titled Album Out October 13th on Alien8 Recordings!



Black Feelings are the essence of a power trio: each member of the three-piece exhibiting a great deal of power while the whole remains balanced. Consisting of two former members of Montreal’s Les Angles Morts, the band has developed a unique a hybrid of the British post punk and experimental scenes that spawned the likes of This Heat, Gang of Four and the Pop Group with heavy traces of psychedelic-goth and cold wave. Like American band The Liars, Black Feelings’ penchant for combining a variety of influences to conjure up a sound that is both retro and vitally fresh at the same time. The band’s main vocalist and drummer Owain Lawson is kept busy as he sings and holds down the rhythm section alongside fellow founding member and bassist Brian Mitchell, while the sound is rounded out with shimmering guitar and synth flourishes provided by Kyle Fostner.

Listening to Black Feelings self-titled debut is never dull, as moody vibes ebb and flow throughout the long player carried by propulsive bass and drums. For a small band these guys have a huge sound. The drums have an almost war song intensity that helps drive the music alongside the bass, guitars, and synth all the while delivering really catchy anthemic songs. The feeling one experiences listening to this self-titled debut is very positive, yet with a lingering feelings of darkness hiding in the shadows.

In their two years of existence Black Feelings have managed a couple of tours of the Eastern U.S. as well as an Eastern Canadian tour in support of Tyvek. During this time they have managed to release a cassette as well as 7” single and have another 45 rpm on the way via UK label We Be Records. For this upcoming full length the have enlisted the help of engineer Mark Lawson, who’s credits include Arcade Fire, Beirut, Final Fantasy, Akron Family and The Unicorns to name a few.

* The Black Feelings' debut recording is adorned with beautiful artwork courtesy of ex-Aids Wolf guitarist Chris Taylor and will be issued on CD, vinyl LP and digital formats and was mastered by James Plotkin.



Black Feelings Tracklist
1 Lost Rings Pt. 1
2 Hidden Dance
3 Gails
4 Golden Children
5 Lost Rings Pt. 2
6 Eternal Bad Trip
7 VH135
8 Aum SHinrikyo

Black Feelings Tour Dates Coming Soon!



For more information, visit:
www.myspace.com/bfeelings
www.alien8recordings.com

Fuel TV Hangs With Red Fang in Portland!

Keelhaul Stream "Triumphant Return" Out This Week on Hydra Head!

Stream "Triumphant Return" here!

Keelhaul's Triumphant Return to Obscurity Track Listing:
1. Pass the Lampshade * download exclusively @ BrooklynVegan.com!
2. Glorious Car Activities
3. Everything's a Napkin
4. High Seas Viking Eulogy
5. THC for one
6. The Subtle Sound of an Empty Milkshake
7. El Matador
8. Kirby Wurm
9. Bandolero de Perros De Maiz
10. Waiting for the Moon to Speak
11. Brady's Lament
12. KFB

Keelhaul Live!
Aug 21 2009 Grog Shop Record Release Show Cleveland, Ohio w/Gluttons, Doktor Bitch
Sep 12 2009 Melody Inn Indianapolis, Indiana
Sep 25 2009 Smalls Detroit, Michigan w/ Yakuza
Sep 26 2009 Beat Kitchen Chicago, Illinois w/ Yakuza

AOL's Spinner.com Interviews Bouncing Souls Frontman Greg Attonito!

Bouncing Souls Stick Together for '20th Anniversary Series'



Few bands can say they've been together for decades, so it's impressive that New Jersey punk band the Bouncing Souls are celebrating their 20th anniversary this year.

Read more here!

Do Make Say Think Announce New Album on Constellation Records!

Do Make Say Think
Announce New Album, Other Truths, Out October 20th on Constellation Records!



The ever-expanding and contracting Toronto quintet Do Make Say Think's sixth full-length Other Truths is made up of four long tracks, "Do," "Make," "Say," and "Think." (It's like taking "self-titled" to the molecular level.) Three go beyond the 10-minute mark -- which is where you'll find opener "Do." It's guest vocals are provided by the Lullabye Arkestra. (Elsewhere, Akron/Family lend their pipes to the album.) The piece goes through a number of dynamic ups and downs and passages horned, stringed, synthesized, and otherwise, but a blow-by-blow would diminish its overall power and arc, so just sit down and dig into it. - Stereogum.com

The sixth full-length from Do Make Say Think defiantly features four long-form tracks, three of which clock in at over 10 minutes, and all of which trace the inimitable musical arcs that have made this band justly celebrated for their unique sonic palette and vibrant distillation of compositional forms and influences into some of the past decade's most consistently rich and rewarding instrumental rock.

Bucking the trend towards diminishing attention spans, immediate gratification, snappy digital singles and things that go 'pop' right out of the gate, DMST admirably stick to their roots and allow the vines that spring from their fertile musical garden to wind, curl and climb for as long as required. More than ever, the players keep their heads down, creating wonderful multi-movement instrumental works (with the occasional mantric or wordless vocal passage, courtesy guest singers The Akron Family and Lullabye Arkestra), overflowing with attention to tone and timbre, animated by unfussy yet ornate harmony, melody and polyrhythm, shot through with ineffable soul. The four songs on Other Truths are vintage Do Make Say Think, and the album represents the first time since the band's debut (recorded over a dozen years ago) that they have found themselves with an entire collection of songs that unfold so organically over long duration. As testament to the unfettered evolution of these tunes, the band has titled them simply "Do", "Make", "Say" and "Think."

Do Make Say Think has always managed to gather, balance and synthesize various poles simultaneously - ragged/precise, dirty/clean, atmospheric/ stratospheric - forging sonic narratives that combine broad strokes and clusters of detail. Perhaps more than their overtly 'post-modern' commingling of various musical genres (psych, jazz, dub, folk) this less conspicuous, indefinable ability to maintain such a consistently enthralling fusion of instincts is the true mark of the band, yielding a music that sounds and feels so unforced, natural and human. Certainly a key part of this unquantifiable equation is the band's self-production, which has shaped their sound from the beginning, and grown along with it. Led by Ohad Benchetrit and his home studio Th' Schvitz in Toronto, along with Charles Spearin and Justin Small, DMST has developed a canny and novel toolbox of recording and mixing techniques that contributes significantly to their sonic identity.

Ultimately it is tricky to distill what has made DMST so compelling to so many critics and fans over their 13-year history, but inarguably something beyond the sum of its parts has always sparkled through their music, an amalgam of many elements that seem present all at once, on every song and through every album: cerebral, emotional, atmospheric, visceral, cosmic, pastoral, synthetic, organic, meditative, ecstatic. Other Truths rallies them all once again, in new and dynamic ways, bearing the distinct imprint of the band's sound – a brilliant addition to the band's canon.

* Other Truths is available on CD in a custom gatefold cardstock jacket and in a first pressing on deluxe 180gLP that includes a limited edition poster (unique to the LP package), an artwork insert printed on heavyweight translucent paper and a CD copy of the album all packed in a thick 24pt. paperboard record jacket. The album is also available digitally.



Listen to the "Other Truths" album preview here!

Other Truths Tracklisting
1. Do * Stream exclusively @ Stereogum.com!
2. Make
3. Say
4. Think

Do Make Say Think Live!

European Tour
w/ The Happiness Project (Charles Spearin) and Years (Ohad Benchetrit)
22-Oct-09 GBR London - Scala
23-Oct-09 GRE Thessaloniki - Principal
24-Oct-09 GRE Athens - Rodeo
25-Oct-09 GRE Athens - Rodeo
26-Oct-09 GER Leipzig - Conne Island
27-Oct-09 GER Munich - Feierwerk
28-Oct-09 GER Schorndorf - Manufaktur
29-Oct-09 SUI Duedingen - Bad Bonn
30-Oct-09 FRA Dijon - Novosonic Festival @ L'Atheneum
31-Oct-09 FRA Paris - Le Maroquinerie
01-Nov-09 FRA Nantes - Soy Festival @ Theatre Paul Fort
02-Nov-09 FRA Toulouse - Kleo
03-Nov-09 ESP Barcelona - Sala Apolo
04-Nov-09 ESP Bilbao - Kafe Antzokia
05-Nov-09 FRA Marseille - Montevideo
06-Nov-09 FRA Nancy - L'autre Canal
07-Nov-09 LUX Esch Sur Alzette - Kulturfabrik
09-Nov-09 NL Nijmegen Doornroosje
08-Nov-09 BEL Kortrijk - De Kreujn
10-Nov-09 GER Hamburg - Molotov
11-Nov-09 SWE Malmo - Debaser
12-Nov-09 SWE Linkoping - Herrgarn
13-Nov-09 NOR Oslo - John Dee
14-Nov-09 DEN Aarhus - Voxhall
15-Nov-09 GER Bielefeld - Forum
16-Nov-09 GER Berlin - Magnet

US Dates
10-Sept-09 Wordless Music Festival - Miller Theatre (Columbia University) New York
25-Nov-09 Sala Rossa Montreal CA
26-Nov-09 Sala Rossa Montreal CA
27-Nov-09 Middle East Downstairs Cambridge, MA
28-Nov-09 Music Hall Of Williamsburg Brooklyn, NY
30-Nov-09 First Unitarian Church Philadelphia
01-Dec-09 Rock and Roll Hotel Washington DC
02-Dec-09 Brillobox Pittsburgh, PA
03-Dec-09 Crofoot Ballroom Pontiac, MI
04-Dec-09 Schubas Tavern Chicago, IL



For more information, visit:
www.domakesaythink.com
www.cstrecords.com

Red Fang Announce Dates w/ Kylesa * Star in Music Fest NW Commercial!

Click to watch Music Fest NW Commercial here!

Red Fang sound like Clutch in the Big Business of chugging beers and brawling in bars - Revolver

Red Fang create an immense, lumbering racket that still remains curiously melodic and showcases just why they’ve been deemed fit to gig alongside the likes of The Sword, Big Business and Melvins. - Rock Sound

Portland’s Red Fang have released one the best music videos of the year—hell, of the past decade for the single “Prehistoric Dog” off their self-titled debut - Decibel

Portland's booze-fueled, balls out rock heroes of 2009, the mighty RED FANG, have just announced US tourdates w/ Kylesa, taking the band from the West Coast and across the Midwest, meeting up w/ friends and equally massive bros-of-destruction Saviours, Bison BC, Lionize, and more.

Check out the complete itinerary below and look out for more RED FANG news coming soon!

Red Fang Live
Sep 18 2009 Ash Street Saloon - Music Fest NW Portland, Oregon
Oct 5 2009 Chop Suey Seattle, Washington w/ Kylesa and Bison BC
Oct 5 2009 Chop Suey Seattle, Washington w/ Kylesa and Saviours and Bison BC
Oct 6 2009 The Palace Missoula, Montana w/ Kylesa
Oct 6 2009 The Palace Missoula, Montana w/ Kylesa and Saviours
Oct 8 2009 Club Vegas Salt Lake City, Utah w/ Kylesa and Lionize
Oct 9 2009 The Marquis Theatre Denver, Colorado w/ Kylesa and Lionize
Oct 10 2009 Granada Theatre Lawrence, Kansas w/ Kylesa and Lionize
Oct 11 2009 Triple Rock Social Club Minneapolis, Minnesota w/ Kylesa and Lionize
Oct 12 2009 Reggies Rock Club Chicago, Illinois w/ Kylesa and Lionize
Oct 13 2009 The Crofoot (Pike Room) Pontiac, Michigan w/ Kylesa and Saviours
Oct 14 2009 The Grog Shop Cleveland Heights, Ohio w/ Kylesa and Lionize

www.myspace.com/redfangpdx
www.redfang.net

Pyramids With Nadja Collaboration Announced!

XLR8R Reports:

The latest collaboration to come fresh out of the pressing oven over at Hydra Head Records will soon come thundering down the side of the mountain with a magnitude that's sure to tip the scales. Pairing up for an October 27 release in CD and double-LP format will be none other than Canada's ambient dream-metal titans Nadja with the Texan psych-doom destructos in Pyramids. The long list of guest appearances on the album is quite a social gathering for some of the best from the ambient, metal, and noise genres. On board for this project is Simon Raymonde (Cocteau Twins, This Mortal Coil), Chris Simpson (Mineral), James Plotkin (Khanate), Colin Marston (Dysrhythmia, Behold the Arctopus), Albin Julius (Der Blutharsch) and more. As Chuck D once put it, "Welcome to the terrordome."

Pyramids With Nadja
01 Into the Silent Waves
02 Another War
03 The Sound of Ice and Grass
04 An Angel Was Heard to Cry Over the City of Rome

Cub Country Stream New Album on Spinner.com!

Stream Cub Country's new album, "Stretch That Skull Cover and Smile," here!

The Bouncing Souls Announce "20 Year Anniversary TV Special!"

In celebration of their upcoming August 20th to August 23rd New York and Philadelphia 20 Year Anniversary performances, The Bouncing Souls have announced news that their "20 Year Anniversary TV Special" will be premiering at all four shows, kicking off each night's extravaganzas.

From the Chunksaah Records and Bouncing Souls headquarters:

"The entirety of the "20th Anniversary TV Special" will be premiered at the NYC and Philly shows. Perhaps you've laughed your ass off the the 'Chunksaah Board Room' segment and bobbled your head along to the 'Airport Security' musical selection... well, don't you want to see which of the 'executive's' ideas became reality? Pete loves juggling!

So, how do you really celebrate a "20th Anniversary TV Special" Premiere? With your family and your old friends. Lifetime and 7 Seconds both took us on tour, in 1993 and 1994 respectively, when nobody else even knew who we were or cared. We wouldn't be a band without their help or their influence or their long-lasting friendships. Come join us. It's time to party!!!!!"



Check out a sneak-peak of the Boogietron 5000 video here!

The Bouncing Souls Live!

USA / Special New York and Philadelphia Shows
Aug 20 2009 WEBSTER HALL New York, New York w/ Lifetime and None More Black
Aug 21 2009 WEBSTER HALL New York, New York w/ 7 Seconds and Tim Barry
Aug 22 2009 TROCADERO THEATRE Philadelphia, Pennsylvania w/ 7 Seconds and None More Black
Aug 23 2009 TROCADERO THEATRE Philadelphia, Pennsylvania w/ Lifetime and Tim Barry

Europe
Aug 27 2009 Uergrou Cologne
Aug 28 2009 Reading Festival Reading
Aug 29 2009 Academy Dublin
Aug 30 2009 Leeds Festival Leeds
Sep 1 2009 Cafe La Peche Paris
Sep 2 2009 Entrepot Brugges
Sep 3 2009 Backage Munich
Sep 4 2009 2 Days a Week Festival Wiesen
Sep 6 2009 Rock Planet Pinarella
Sep 8 2009 Music Box Lisboa
Sep 9 2009 Sala Live Madrid
Sep 10 2009 Sala KGB Barcelona

Canadian Tour w/ Youth Brigade, Off With Their Heads and more!
Sep 23 2009 - Montreal, QC - Foufounes Electrique
Sep 24 2009 - Ottawa, ON - Ritual
Sep 25 2009 - Guelph, ON - Vinyl
Sep 26 2009 - London, ON - Call The Office
Sep 27 2009 - Toronto, ON - Opera House
Sep 30 2009 - Winnipeg, MB - The Pyramid Cabaret
Oct 1 2009 - Regina, SK - Riddell Centre
Oct 2 2009 - Edmonton, AB - Starlite
Oct 3 2009 - Calgary, AB - MacEwan Ballroom
Oct 4 2009 - Banff, AB - Wild Bills
Oct 6 2009 - Victoria, BC - Sugar Nightclub
Oct 7 2009 - Vancouver, BC - The Rickshaw Theater

+ More dates coming soon!



Click to stream The Bouncing Souls 20 Year Anniversary songs January - August here!

Tracklist for 20 Year Anniversary (so far)
Gasoline (January)
We All Sing Along (February)
Airport Security (March)
Dubs Says True (April)
I Think That The World (May)
Mental Bits (June)
Ghosts On The Boardwalk (July)
Boogie Woogie Downtown (August)



For more information, visit:
www.facebook.com/bouncingsouls
www.myspace.com/bouncingsouls
www.chunksaah.com

Oxbow To Reissue "Fuckfest" Album September 15th on Hydra Head!

There’s a curious romance at the heart of Oxbow. Curious, because you might not initially equate such a notion with a band who first introduced themselves to the world via an album entitled Fuckfest. - Decibel

The Oxbow discography - six albums, starting with 1989’s Fuckfest and building to 2007’s The Narcotic Story - is a compelling and powerful journey through one man’s obsessions with sex and violence, told through throbbing, occasionally quite noisy post-blues art-rock. - The Wire

Can you believe OX BOW has been a band for 20 fucking years? Neither can we - mostly because they appear to be so young and good-looking (and because at least one of them will beat us up if we don’t say that). And yet our reissue of the band’s 1990 debut proves that they were once much younger and even better-looking. Originally released on CFY/Pathological, the aptly titled Fuckfest is a pornographic snapshot of a burgeoning musical force in its formative years; a raw, naked display of desperate humanity and abject terror; a decisive collision of Midwest noise, and all-American trepidation.

Fuckfest Tracklist:
1. Curse (5:52)
2. 30 Miles (5:48)
3. The Valley (5:50)
4. Bull’s Eye (4:03)
5. Yoke (6:13)
6. Hunger (9:19)

Oxbow is one of the rare bands that exhibits such a glacial lack of compromise, from the start settling into a style that's harsh at best, and using music outside of their bubble as base componentry rather than outright influence. A personal colleague of mine and vocal critic of modern blues declared in a moment of exasperation that the two best bands working in that idiom were/are Arab on Radar and U.S. Maple. Compile that list for real with Oxbow on top and you might have a reasonable argument. - Dusted Magazine

Best known for vocalist Eugene Robinson's cathartic live performance (which includes stripping, howling, and pelvic-gyrating), Oxbow has carved a very unique place for itself in the post-rock scene. - XLR8R



For more information, visit:
Oxbow on Facebook
www.theoxbow.com
www.hydrahead.com

Around The Web This Week!

We may only be a little over a week into the month of August and already there's a lot going on! See below to read some interviews, reviews and news from some of your favorites:



* Justin Broadrick (Jesu / GREYMACHINE) interviewed on AOL Noisecreep!

* The Bouncing Souls interviewed on Absolutepunk!

* Hopewell Added to All Tomorrow's Parties - Brooklyn Vegan reports!

* Pirates Press owner Eric "Skippy" Mueller interviewed on IndiePit.com!

* RX Bandits and Xasthur vinyl profiled in the LA Weekly!

* MetalSucks recounts Keelhaul in Brooklyn!

* Clutch's "Strange Cousins From The West" reviewed on PopMatters!

* Camp Wanatachi profiled on PaperMag.com

G R E Y M A C H I N E Stream Debut Album out This Week on Hydra Head!

Stream GREYMACHINE's "Disconnected" (featuring Justin Broadrick of Jesu / Godflesh, Aaron Turner of Isis, Diarmuid Dalton of Jesu and Dave Cochrane of Jesu / Head of David) here!

Poison The Well Premiere New Video for "Exist Underground!"

Poison The Well - Exist Underground

Iron Age Stream New Album, "The Sleeping Eye," at MetalSucks.net!

Stream Iron Age's New Album, "The Sleeping Eye," here!

Kaiju Big Battel on ESPN E:60 Tonight!

Watch Kaiju Big Battel profiled on ESPN E:60 TONIGHT @ 7pm EST!

Watch Cave In Reunion Footage and Interview @ Fuel TV!

yes!

The Bouncing Souls Premiere New Song "Boogie Woogie Downtown!"

Listen to the new song from The Bouncing Souls, "Boogie Woogie Downtown," here!

The Bouncing Souls Live!

USA / Vans Warped Tour
Jul 30 2009 Marcus Amphitheater Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Jul 31 2009 Comerica Park Detroit, Michigan
Aug 1 2009 First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre Chicago, Illinois
Aug 2 2009 Canterbury Park Minneapolis, Minnesota
Aug 3 2009 Verizon Wireless Amphitheater St. Louis, Missouri
Aug 4 2009 Capitol Federal Park At Sandstone Kansas City, Kansas
Aug 7 2009 Idaho Center Amphitheatre Boise, Idaho
Aug 8 2009 Utah State Fairgrounds Salt Lake City, Utah
Aug 9 2009 Invesco Field Denver, Colorado

USA / Special New York and Philadelphia Shows
Aug 20 2009 WEBSTER HALL New York, New York w/ Lifetime and None More Black
Aug 21 2009 WEBSTER HALL New York, New York w/ 7 Seconds and Tim Barry
Aug 22 2009 TROCADERO THEATRE Philadelphia, Pennsylvania w/ 7 Seconds and None More Black
Aug 23 2009 TROCADERO THEATRE Philadelphia, Pennsylvania w/ Lifetime and Tim Barry

Europe
Aug 27 2009 Uergrou Cologne
Aug 28 2009 Reading Festival Reading
Aug 29 2009 Academy Dublin
Aug 30 2009 Leeds Festival Leeds
Sep 1 2009 Cafe La Peche Paris
Sep 2 2009 Entrepot Brugges
Sep 3 2009 Backage Munich
Sep 4 2009 2 Days a Week Festival Wiesen
Sep 6 2009 Rock Planet Pinarella
Sep 8 2009 Music Box Lisboa
Sep 9 2009 Sala Live Madrid
Sep 10 2009 Sala KGB Barcelona

Canadian Tour w/ Youth Brigade, Off With Their Heads and more!
Sep 23 2009 - Montreal, QC - Foufounes Electrique
Sep 24 2009 - Ottawa, ON - Ritual
Sep 25 2009 - Guelph, ON - Vinyl
Sep 26 2009 - London, ON - Call The Office
Sep 27 2009 - Toronto, ON - Opera House
Sep 30 2009 - Winnipeg, MB - The Pyramid Cabaret
Oct 1 2009 - Regina, SK - Riddell Centre
Oct 2 2009 - Edmonton, AB - Starlite
Oct 3 2009 - Calgary, AB - MacEwan Ballroom
Oct 4 2009 - Banff, AB - Wild Bills
Oct 6 2009 - Victoria, BC - Sugar Nightclub
Oct 7 2009 - Vancouver, BC - Richards On Richards

For more information, visit:
www.facebook.com/bouncingsouls
www.chunksaah.com