Nick Thomas, the singer, guitarist, and mastermind behind The Spill
Canvas, recorded his first songs at age 15 while growing up in Sioux
Falls, South Dakota and honed his largely acoustic-based style playing
solo shows in and around his hometown. Calling himself The Spill Canvas,
Thomas released the raw and emotive Sunsets and Car Crashes, which
earned him eager fans around the country. After officially transitioning
from solo act to full-fledged rock band, The Spill Canvas recorded
their dynamic debut full-length, One Fell Swoop, with producer Ed Rose
(The Get-Up Kids), releasing it on One Eleven in May of 2005 to great
acclaim, eventually selling more than 50,000 copies.
In 2006, The Spill Canvas signed to Sire Records, which released
their major-label debut full-length No Really, I’m Fine in October 2007.
Produced by Neal Avron (Fall Out Boy, Wallflowers, Yellowcard), the
album climbed to No. 2 on Billboard’s Heatseeker’s chart and spawned the
single “All Over You.” Over the years, the band have toured with
Yellowcard, Motion City Soundtrack, Straylight Run, Mae, The Plain White
T’s, Augustana, the Hush Sound, and One Republic, and have graced the
stages of Austin’s annual music festival SXSW, New Jersey’s Bamboozle
Festival and the Vans Warped Tour — earning them a growing loyal
fanbase.
From Detroit USA, The Ruiners are a wild and fantastic beast; pure white
lightning & sexy self-destruction. Having endured club bannings,
beatings, court enforced restraining orders, jail terms, cat fights,
pregnancies, bankruptcies, heart attacks, overdoses, emergency room
visits and death threats over the last 10 years, the band is now
fresher, sexier & more self-confident then ever with their brand new
album Happy Birthday Bitch. This 10 song blast of Detroit sleaze
is destine to be thee greatest party record of all time, with a lot of
fuzzed out sounds, primitive drums, mucho sex appeal & greasy bar
room grit… and that my friends is what The Ruiners do best.
From Detroit USA, The Ruiners are a wild and fantastic beast; pure white
lightning & sexy self-destruction. Having endured club bannings,
beatings, court enforced restraining orders, jail terms, cat fights,
pregnancies, bankruptcies, heart attacks, overdoses, emergency room
visits and death threats over the last 10 years, the band is now
fresher, sexier & more self-confident then ever with their brand new
album Happy Birthday Bitch. This 10 song blast of Detroit sleaze
is destine to be thee greatest party record of all time, with a lot of
fuzzed out sounds, primitive drums, mucho sex appeal & greasy bar
room grit… and that my friends is what The Ruiners do best.
From Detroit USA, The Ruiners are a wild and fantastic beast; pure white
lightning & sexy self-destruction. Having endured club bannings,
beatings, court enforced restraining orders, jail terms, cat fights,
pregnancies, bankruptcies, heart attacks, overdoses, emergency room
visits and death threats over the last 10 years, the band is now
fresher, sexier & more self-confident then ever with their brand new
album Happy Birthday Bitch. This 10 song blast of Detroit sleaze
is destine to be thee greatest party record of all time, with a lot of
fuzzed out sounds, primitive drums, mucho sex appeal & greasy bar
room grit… and that my friends is what The Ruiners do best.
From Brisbane… birthplace of The Saints & The Go-Betweens comes three piece – I HEART HIROSHIMA. Susie (drums/voice), Matt (guitar/voice), & Cameron (guitar/voice/art)… where it’s at… shared vocals and a microphone. Bottles and cans, just clap your hands. Connecting the wires. Making the right incisions. Joining the plots. Caressing shadows of the flickering lights. Plunging into the light off the side of the road. City streets declare a musical lineage converging in the guitar’s angular striations, like bastard urchins and youthful inventions touched by tender aggressions.
I Heart Hiroshima emerged in the party of back streets, to carve a trail through the bark and offer the spirit of many… Sleater Kinney, TV on the Radio, Leonard Cohen, The Smiths, Raveonettes, Magnetic Fields, Frank Black, Jesus and Mary Chain, Walkmen, Slumber Party, Phaycyde… Putting their heads down in earnest circa mid-05, and performing with (and sometimes earning the praise of) Deerhoof, Broken Social Scene, Calvin Johnson, Erase Errata, Macromantics, Regurgitator, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah… tours with Ratatat, The Rogers Sisters, The Grates, Sekiden, Spod, The Mess Hall, Peaches & Herms… and a debut Big Day Out 2007 performance on the Gold Coast plus appearances at various festivals including Brisbane’s Valley Fiesta… and runner-up to Wolf & Cub on the 2007 SOYA awards. Two EPs on Valve – 3 Letter Word for Candy (featuring London in Love), and then Cut in Colour (recorded with Magoo)… have all fashioned them into a winding thread of rock beat craze!
Ari Up, singer with The Slits, has died at the age of 48.
The news was broken by John Lydon, who’s married to Ari Up’s mother. He posted the following: ” John and Nora have asked us to let everyone know that Nora’s daughter Arianna (aka Ari Up) died today (Wednesday, October 20) after a serious illness. She will be sadly missed”.
Born in Munich, Ari Up formed The Slits in 1974. They released two albums, 1979’s Cut and Return Of The Giant Slits two years later. The band, who split up in 1982, reformed in 2005.
Jackie and Martina take on Rochelle Diamante’s single, a cover of Justin Bieber’s hit single, “U Smile.” Rochelle’s version is available on iTunes here.
German heavy metal legends, Helloween are set to release their 13th studio album, 7 Sinners, on November 9, 2010 in North America via The End Records. This week Helloween premiered the video for the first single, “Are You Metal?” off the new album. Watch the video here, and then ask yourself, Are You Metal?
If there is a golden thread throughout the more than 25 years of Helloween’s history, 13 studio albums, countless headliner tours around the globe and more than 5 million records sold, then it is their special kind of attitude: don’t take yourself too seriously and simply live statements like: “just have fun with the shit you’re doing.” Maybe it is exactly this easiness that allows Helloween to be one of the most constant bands of the genre while simultaneously being the one band who dares to experiment more than their musical peers. While some copycats would rather stick with the same old patterns, Andi Deris, Michael Weikath, Sascha Gerstner, Markus Großkopf and Dani Löble aren’t afraid of taking risks – and are rightfully rewarded with success.
7 Sinners is definitively one of the fastest and hardest albums in the Helloween’s history and it bursts with vitality. That might partly be due to the versatility of the various songwriters within the band, who over time have become so homogenous, that the 13 songs formed a unity on their own in the studio , but it may also be due to the fact that the album was recorded completely without a click track, which, considering the extreme speed of the songs is an impressive feat. Especially drummer Löble, who proves that his technique is at a world-class-level. Following his excellent inner clock, bass and drums drive tracks like “Are You Metal?”, “Long Live The King” and “Who Is Mr. Madman?” to dizzying tempos. 7 Sinners with its typically strong melodies and the tangible joy of playing, is a true metal album whose range reaches astonishing dimensions.