The Smashing Pumpkins went back to the source. The Chicago alternative rock icons just debuted “Black Stars,” their first new track with producer Butch Vig in thirty-two years, from the soundtrack to The Hunger Games: Sunrise On The Reaping. Watch the video below. Continue reading
When bands lose an irreplaceable member due to death or another reason, should they continue? Or is it a lame-ass cash grab? Sound off in the comments! Continue reading
In many ways, Chat Pile’s new album Who Loves the Sun (The Flenser) ironically feels like their Sunbather (Deafheaven). The album will elevate them to a new level as artists not made for radio airplay. You might even think these guys are going to take Noise-Rock to the mainstream. Still, it has pivoted from the hard and fast definition of that genre as a grim post-Grunge sonic effigy of society’s collapse, to one that these songs blame apathy for being the chief motivator. Maybe there is some truth to that theory, but to be honest, I don’t care. Continue reading