Band Profile – Cutthroats 9
[nextpage title=”Biography” ] By the mid 90s, New York band Unsane significantly raised their profile when MTV started playing a video for their song “Scrape” on a regular basis. At …
Band Profile – Slint
[nextpage title=”Biography” ] Slint is/was one of the bands whose popularity grew immensely after their break-up, despite the fact that the band released only two full-lengths and an EP (released …
Band Profile – Rapeman
[nextpage title=”Biography” ] Controversially named Rapeman was an extremely short-lived band formed in the late 80s by Steve Albini’s after the break-up of Big Black. Their name was based on …
Covers – Weird, Wonderful and Downright Odd
Just like tribute albums, covers are a very special topic – some bands do nothing but copy the original note-for-note, while others are capable of transforming somebody else’s song into …
Band Profile – Swans
[nextpage title=”Biography” ] Along with Sonic Youth and lesser known bands like Rat At Rat R, Swans represented a darker side of New York music scene in the 80s. While …
Band Profile – Piano Magic
[nextpage title=”Biography” ] British music troupe Piano Magic is one of hard-to-classify bands – since their music contains bits of ambience, rock and anything in between, its no wonder that …
Label Profile – Ipecac Recordings
“Making People Sick Since 1999” – Label slogan “Lawyers or businesspeople call us morons for only doing one-record deals. They say, ‘You’re not really anything, then.’ Well, we like …
Band Bios // Jesu
[nextpage title=”Biography” ] After the breakup of Godflesh in 2003, Justin Broadrick decided to form another project and leave behind some of the extreme sounds of his previous bands. Jesu …
Band Bios // No Age
[nextpage title=”Biography” ] Los Angeles duo No Age was born out of ashes of another band – Wives, which featured drummer Dean Spunt and guitarist Randy Randall as well as …
Band Profile – Godheadsilo
[nextpage title=”Biography” ] Olympia, WA based Godheadsilo was a duo of Mike Kunka and Dan Haugh. Two of them met in Fargo, North Dakota and originally they were a trio, …