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!