Every now and then a band comes along to bring back all the emotional, raw feelings rock and roll thrives on. A typical trend within the genre for a while now, there have been a lot of misses and very few hits. Nothing, is a band of the latter.Continue reading
Pallbearer released their new album, Heartless, earlier this month via Profound Lore Records here in North America, and via Nuclear Blast in Europe. As Hansel said in his 8/10 review, this band was “faced with the Herculean task of following up 2014’s Foundations of Burden, and they’ve passed with flying colors.”
Now that the powerful new material is out, it’s time to bring those songs to the stage. 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
Philly based post-hardcore shoegazers Nothing have shared acoustic footage of their summer time performance at Chicago’s Penguin Clothing store, right after they performed at this summer’s Lollapalooza. You can see the clips below: Continue reading
Relapse Records has just released their 2016 sampler, and you need this in your life. Continue reading
Part II:
Not many bands can say they played every single day of a four-day festival. Well, Slow Down, Molasses can! The Canadian shoegazers took to the stage at various venues over the weekend. They mostly played songs from their brand new record 100% Sunshine, which you could buy on PINK vinyl (needless to say, we did). Continue reading
We’re back at Incubate Festival in the Dutch town of Tilburg to see all of the weird and wonderful this alternative music festival has to offer. Tilburg is in the midst of its last warm summer days and on our way to pick up a ticket we already see a lot of familiar faces. Incubate, we’ve missed you! Instead of having a week-long festival, this year Incubate has split up into three different editions (May/September/December), of which the four-day long September weekend is the biggest. Continue reading
Post-punk shoegazers Nothing have released a new music video for their track ‘Curse Of The Sun’ from their recent album Tired Of Tomorrow (Relapse). You can watch the video at this link or below:
Incubate Festival, one of the essential yearly gatherings of music, art, film and other cutting edge in Europe is back in 2016. Continue reading
Nostalgist, photo by Shane Williams
On the verge of releasing their new album, Seattle post-punk shoegaze act Nostalgist have teamed up with Ghost Cult to present a full stream for Of Loves and Days Ago (Nostalgium Directive) due out on July 10th. To celebrate the release, the band is undertaking a West Coast tour starting this Friday, with a hometown show at Barboza with VibraGun and Winnebago. A full list of dates can be seen below. A haunting sonic throwback full of clever songcraft, hear Of Loves and Days Ago now:
Led by Asa Eisenhardt on vocals and guitar, Nostalgist also counts Connor Keogh on bass and Mark Knowles on drums in their ranks. Formed in late 2012, Of Loves and Days Ago is the follow up to 2013’s acclaimed Monochromantic EP, which featured Nick Bassett (Whirr, Nothing, Deafheaven) on lead guitar and engineered/mixed/mastered by Jack Shirley.
Of Loves and Days Ago track listing
1. Cold Open
2. Pull of the Plow
3. Dreaming in Celluloid
4. The Derelict
5. Stillframe
6. An Unbroken Take
7. Blast of Silence
8. The Void at My Feet
Nostalgist tour dates:
July 10: Barboza – Seattle, WA w/ VibraGun, Winnebago
July 11: Rotture – Portland, OR 21+ 315 SE 3rd Avenue w/ Satsuma, Sabonis, Spirit Host
July 12: Old Nick’s- Eugene, OR w/Satsuma, Paleons, Josh Finch
July 13: Press Club- Sacramento, CA NMBRSTTN (Number Station), Fifi, Color of Closure
July 14: The Hemlock – San Francisco, CA w/ Lotus Thief, Whatfunlifewas
July 15: Third Eye Records- Long Beach, CA w/ Crisis Arm, Cruelty Code
July 16: Sweet Springs Saloon – San Luis Obispo, CA w/ Hollow Sunshine, Crisis Arm, Paperman
July 17: PTP La Cita PTP – Los Angeles, CA @ La Cita w/ Crisis Arm
