On its face, Double Negative’s latest record, a split 7″ with a Brooklyn thrash band called Battletorn that’s already trudged out some five or six dozen minute-long crossover blasts, is utterly insignificant. After all, two of the Raleigh hardcore quartet’s three tracks were previously laid to tape for last year’s similarly short Raw Energy EP. […]
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Live: Morrissey shows up
Morrissey Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham Wednesday, March 11 Morrissey cancelled the first four U.S. dates of his Tour of Refusal ‘due to illness.” Presumably better, he then played an allegedly spotty hour at Myrtle Beach’s House of Blues. Two more gigs, including an Asheville stop, were soon dropped, but the 49-year-old Mozzer decided to […]
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Spider Bags’ Hey Delinquents 7″
Listen up! If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. Two outlets emerged and diverged from the steady senescence of New Jersey’s finest drug-addled space punk troupe DC Snipers: In Brooklyn, Mike Sniper began Blank Dogs, a shrouded hot topic of blackened new-wave junk that explores the anxieties of a […]
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Stephin Merritt doesn’t care about you
Stephin Merritt is a 42-year-old gay man of modest stature, with a wardrobe consisting mostly of clothes in various shades of brown. And, to some, he is the most terrifying man in pop music, a notorious curmudgeonsarcastic, grouchy, endlessly difficultwho wears his disdain for modern pop music like most folks wear T-shirts. Indeed, citing Merritt’s […]
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Double Negative’s Raw Energy EP
With artwork akin to that of Swans and production costs rivaling those Darkthrone demos, Double Negative’s most recent slab of propaganda gloriously reiterates the notion that these four Raleigh veterans are one of the most worth-a-damn hardcore punk bands of this century: A-side “Raw Energy EP” just plain hurts. In a Discharge swirl of blackened […]
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Henry Rollins
• Watch “Henry Rollins: On President Bush” on YouTube From his early days with hardcore heroes State of Alert and Black Flag to his role opposite Charlie Sheen in The Chase and his surprise cable TV hit The Henry Rollins Show, 47-year-old Henry Rollins is often referred to as punk rock’s Renaissance man. He’s well-traveled, […]
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Baroness
Listen! If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. In the past three years, Baroness has deafened the Triangle five times. Well, they’ve at least deafened anyone who would listen: In that timespan, The Savannah, Ga., quartet has steadily made the difficult climb from swampy house shows to cushier metal […]
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Black Lips’ “Cold Hands”
Listen! Download “Cold Hands,” or stream it below. If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. “Subconsciousness been splayed on cankered brains,” shouts a swaggered Jared Swilley for the opening line of “Cold Hands,” the second U.K. single off Good Bad, Not Evil, the fourth proper studio album from Atlanta, […]
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Donny Hue and the Colors shifting musical tastes
Listen! Download “Real Long Time” and “Humming with the Flowerbirds.” Or stream the tracks below. If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. When the organ grows past pleasantries and the guitars finally swell beyond sweet, Donny Hue and the Colors unveils its surrealist circus. The stage overflows with a […]
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Big Business
Listen! Listen to Big Business’ “Grounds for Divorce” from the new album Here Come the Waterworks. If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. “Big Business is pure metal fashioned by a couple of hardcore vets…. Jared Warren of indie-metal legends Karp [and] Coady Willis of the terrific, short-lived, goth-punk […]