One of the biggest heavy music festivals in the world takes place starting today at Download Festival UK 2018 lifts off! With headliners like Ozzy Osbourne, Guns N Roses, and Avenged Sevenfold, one might be hard-pressed to find a better top of the bill in 2018. Ghost Cult brings you the day by day can’t miss bands in our preview below! Continue reading
Download Festival 2018 has made another major announcement, adding 21 bands and WWE NXT Live! Wrestling to the line-up. Added to the bill are Avatar, Andrew W.K., Bad Religion, CKY, Nothing More, Black Foxxes, Hell Is For Heroes and many more. WWE will bring an immersive NXT show starring Aleister Black, Adam Cole, Velveteen Dream, Ricochet, Nikki Cross, Shayna Baszler, Kairi Sane, The Undisputed Era and more. Continue reading
Ghost Cult once more brings you “End Of Year” lists, memories, and other shenanigans from our favorite bands, partners, music industry peers, and other folks we respect across the world from 2016. Kristina Esfandiari (King Woman, Miserable) shares her Top 10 of 2016 with our readers. Look out for a new King Woman album, Created In The Image of Suffering next month from Relapse Records! Continue reading
Photo Credit: Juan Gabe
Bay Area quintet Culture Abuse will be releasing a new seven inch single Spray Paint The Dog, out February 17, 2015 via 6131 Records. Stream “Nicotine” here
and here.
Spray Paint The Dog tracklist:
1. Nicotine
2. Perfect Light
Culture Abuse are a wild pack of animals that have been stirring things up along the West Coast since Fall 2013. Their amalgamation of hardcore / punk with an almost psychedelic rock vibe is unlike anything ever heard before, feeling both vitally important and on the brink of disaster all at once.
Following the digital release of their debut EP, The Day Dreams of Nothing, 6131 Records quickly jumped at the chance to work with this incredible band. In Fall 2014, Culture Abuse recorded three new songs, two for this single (teasing an album to come later in 2015) and one included on a 12″ vinyl reissue of their debut. The songs on this Spray Paint The Dog 7″, “Nicotine” and “Perfect Light”, demonstrate their ever-evolving style, moving deeper into a pop-driven aesthetic. Culture Abuse are channeling the drugged-out, melodic sounds the Bay Area delivered in the late ’60s, yet are still remarkably refreshing.
Feb 17: Thee Parkside – San Francisco, CA
Feb 19: The Hemlock – San Francisco, CA
Mar 14: Thee Parkside – San Francisco, CA (w/ Sabertooth Zombie, Creative Adult & more)
Apr 17: Los Globos – Los Angeles, CA
Photo Credit: Juan Gabe
San Francisco punk rockers Culture Abuse shared their new video for “Perfect Light”, off their Spray Paint The Dog seven inch, out February 17, 2015 via 6131 Records here.
Spray Paint The Dog tracklist:
1. Nicotine
2. Perfect Light