Thirty-one years, 13 albums and a million miles of road traveled and there seems to be no end in sight for The Meat Puppets. From their humble beginning in Phoenix in 1980 playing parties and punk bars to flirting with commercial success in the early ’90s grunge boom, the “brothers meat” have put together one of the most interesting catalogs in alternative music. We interviewed frontman Curt Kirkwood to find out some more about them. BB: Tell me about the new album, “Lollipop.” CK: Well, it’s the third record since we reunited in 2006. We’ve been on tour pretty much non-sto...
CHARRED WALLS OF THE DAMNED full album stream of 'Cold Winds On Timeless Days' up on website of Rock Hard magazine, Germany! CHARRED WALLS OF THE DAMNED is teaming up with Rock Hard Germany for the streaming of the entire new album Cold Winds on Timeless Days! Please surf over to Rock Hard magazine at THIS location to listen to the album! The album stream is live from October 3rd to October 10th! Richard Christy, Tim "Ripper" Owens, Jason Suecof and Steve DiGiorgio once again joined forces to bring to life Christy's latest body of work, Cold Winds on Timeless Days. The writing process for ...
Charred Walls of the Damned debut "Ashes Falling Upon Us" on Full Metal Jackie! Fans will be able to hear Ashes Falling Upon Us from Charred Walls of the Damned's new album, Cold Winds on Timeless Days, on Full Metal Jackie's syndicated metal radio show this weekend. Full Metal Jackie Radio is two hours of fist pounding metal, hosted by renowned metal radio personality Full Metal Jackie (FMQB Metal Host of the Year, four time winner!), featuring regular interviews with many of metal’s biggest names, past and present. The show is syndicated on over 50 stations nationwide. Visit www.fullmetal...
Indie rockers Finding Fiction are hoping to join the laundry list of bands to break out of the Brooklyn New York scene. Buzzbin caught up with George, Mario and Luke from the band to discuss their writing process, playing house shows and their favorite breakfast foods. Buzzbin: The band has been together since 2008, what has changed in the group's dynamic since then? Finding Fiction: Just about everything. Finding Fiction's been going through some changes lately, so it's definitely having an impact on the sound. We've had some friends leave and others join, and each person tends to mak...
Thanks to David Ignizio of Square Records and Jeremy Bible of Experimedia, we got in touch with Belgian experimental artists Lieven Martens, the man behind the one-man musical project Dolphins into the Future, and filmmaker/musician Floris Vanhoof. The result is one hell of a read. How did Dolphins into the Future first come about? Martens: When a certain woman sat ashore and a big whale came to her. It looked at her with his huge eyes and she started to write down stuff in an automatic writing process. Years and years after that I started to make music in an automatic writing process. ...
On March 31st hardcore punk super group Off! will be bringing their ‘dark party’ to Cleveland’s Grog Shop as part of the group’s first U.S. tour. Woven from roots that intersect many of the most pivotal and important bands of hardcore and punk music history, Off! is a provocative and hardcore group from the West Coast composed of four men who are each in their own right punk royalty. With Keith Morris of Black Flag and the Circle Jerks on vocals, Dimitri Coats from Burning Brides playing the guitar, Red Kross’ Steven McDonald on bass and Rocket From the Crypt’s Mario Rubalc...
By Charisma Hey, this is Charisma live with Jean Paul Gaster, killer drummer of the band Clutch. Let’s do this, baby! Charisma: So, are you guys on the road touring as we speak? JP: We are. We just started this afternoon actually. We are in beautiful Morgantown, W. Va. The crowds are always fun here. Charisma: So, I gotta ask, where did you get the name Clutch? JP: At the time, we were sort of into one-syllable names like Prong or Helmet, and we came up with Clutch. I think we came up with it about two minutes before we played our first set. Charisma: So how does your writi...
By Dr. Iam Sancho Mike Patton has been in touch with fans ever since the internet allowed him to be and is one of the pioneers of Rock 2.0 dude. He’s fronted successful bands such as Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, The Dillinger Escape Plan and even squeezed in time to co-found the wildly successful Ipecac Recordings. We sent his biggest fan and esteemed colleague, Dr. Iam Sancho, to see what he’s up to now. Dr. Iam Sancho: What has Mr. Mike Patton been up to recently? Mike Patton: Working on a few records. Finishing up Mondo Cane (Italian pop songs with orchestra) and Crudo (collab...
