Vancouver’s A Textbook Tragedy play very aggressively, viciously, and loudly, and new digital offering, Rain City State Of Mind, is no exception. Tearing out of the starting blocks from the first chord, Destroyed In Seconds sounds fast, raw, and very, very heavy.
Review: A Textbook Tragedy – Rain City State Of Mind
August 30, 2009
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Interview: The Blackout
August 29, 2009
The Blackout are on the road to the Reading and Leeds Festivals, and to warm up are playing a select few intimate shows. George has caught them in York, where vocalists Gavin Butler and Sean Smith, drummer Gareth ‘Snoz’ Lawrence, and guitarist James Davies, as well as tonight’s supporting act The Guns‘ frontman Alex Wiltshire, have a lot to say; they talk Warped Tour, crabcore, try to catch George out on illegally downloading their album, and why every Welsh twin girl eats shit. Here’s how it went down…
George: Can you say your name and what you do in the band?
Snoz: He’s Gavin and he’s a singer and general good guy.
Gavin: He’s Snoz, and he plays drums and he can pick me up easily.
George: Can you put a straight up genre on your music? ‘Cause it seems pretty uncategorisable.
Gavin: We’re just a rock band at the end of the day, I think. A lot of people try and pigeon-hole bands and stuff, and a lot of our songs, and pretty much all of our albums are so different to each other that you couldn’t put them all in one basket; there’s like really heavy rock ‘n’ roll songs, there’s heavy beatdowns and stuff and there’s really poppy, pop songs like.
Snoz: I’m getting quite old now, people are talking about different genres, there’s so many different genres, there’s metalcore, hardcore, thrashcore, spazzcore, corecore…
George: Crabcore…
Snoz: Crabcore, is there crabcore now? Who the fuck does crabcore?
George: The American Attack Attack!
Gavin: Ahhh, is that because they do the crab thing?
George: Yeah.
Snoz: They’re rubbish.
Gavin: Aw, God.
Snoz: We’ve always been about, if we’ve got a good riff, we’ll just go with it. If it sounds like N*SYNC or if it sounds like Slayer, just go with it.
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Live Review: The Blackout – Fibbers, York, August 27th 2009
August 29, 2009
On the road to Reading and Leeds, The Blackout have stopped off to play some largely intimate warm-up shows; tonight they’re in York, where a crowd has been gathered since the early morning, a usual occurrence for the Merthyr sextet.
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Live Review: Katy Perry – O2 Academy, Newcastle, August 26th 2009
August 28, 2009
By now, Katy Perry should really be playing bigger venues with her worldwide fame. However, Newcastle Academy was one of a few cancelled shows, and as her massive Hello Katy Tour rolls into town, there’s a hardcore collective, some waiting as early as 8am for the I Kissed A Girl star; this one’s been anticipated for ages.
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Live Review: Lostprophets – Academy, Manchester, August 25th 2009
August 27, 2009
Tonight was always going to be something special. This being Lostprophets‘ first gig since acoustically closing 2008 in Cardiff on New Year’s Eve, as well as the debut of former Beat Union drummer Luke Johnson, expectations were high and the room was full of energy and vitality. And, at around £25 a ticket, I for one wanted to leave this room feeling much better off.
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Live Review: New Found Glory – O2 Academy 2, Newcastle, August 24th 2009
August 26, 2009
New Found Glory are really taking it back a notch, playing some extremely intimate club shows before their Reading and Leeds appearances, this, however, doesn’t mean their live shows are going to be any less than the usual energy and all out fun. In tow are Kids In Glass Houses, and a bunch of strange masked superheroes they’ve brought over with them, the International Superheroes Of Hardcore. As the three (ahem) bands roll into Newcastle, we’ve gone along to check it all out, as it’s really a chance not to be missed.
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Interview: H2O
August 23, 2009
We recently had the chance to sit down with Toby Morse (vocals), Adam Blake (bass) and Rusty Pistachio (guitar) of the legendary New York hardcore band, H2O, as well as Colin McGinniss (of None More Black fame and H2O’s stand-in guitarist), along with the occasional cheeky input from Mark ‘Barney’ Greenway (friend of H2O and Napalm Death vocalist), during the last stop of their two-week European tour in London.
We got talking about the positive response of their long-awaited comeback album Nothing To Prove, whether we have to wait another seven years for a new record, the appearance of CM Punk in their video for Nothing To Prove, the future of Hazen Street, straight edge, the NYHC scene, and how they’ve lasted so long in a genre where many bands seem to come and go, as well as a whole lot more.
Faye: So, you cancelled your European tour in April and May, how come?
Toby: Because we didn’t want to come over here. [laughs]
Adam: To tell you the truth, that tour was never really confirmed by us. The first we found out about that tour was when we came over for the Persistence Tour and saw posters up, and we were like, “What? We didn’t know anything about this tour.” It looked like we cancelled, but in reality we never said we were even going to do it, we never booked it, so sorry. [laughs] There’s some mad people out there.
Faye: You finally made it back over and have been touring Europe for the past couple of weeks, how’s that been going for you?
Toby: It’s been fun, two-weeks and 15-shows. It’ good, a little tiring, but it’s good.
Faye: I read on Toby’s Twitter that Peterborough blew the other UK shows away.
Toby: Yeah, it was fucking awesome, packed, kids diving, it was crazy. Tonight could be better, though. We’ll see what happens.
Adam: Kingston was pretty good, too.
Toby: Yeah, it was good, but there was a few kids in Kingston that just stood there while we played too. There was a lot of hype on that show, I’m a little let down Kingston, we went off more than the crowd, it was too hot, that’s why Peterborough fucking killed it last night, Peterborough was the shit.
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Review: InMe – Herald Moth
August 22, 2009
Long gone are the days of stardom of Essex rockers InMe – once breaking into the mainstream charts with gems like 7 Weeks and Underdose, the band today are a changed one, albeit with a new member.
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Review: BATS – Red In Tooth and Claw
August 20, 2009
Irish progressive clan BATS have really created a weird and wonderful introduction to the world with their debut offering, Red In Tooth and Claw. They have every right to capitalise their name – their sound mirrors its bluntness.
It’s so hard to pinpoint the noise the band makes; a mass pile up involving System of a Down, HORSE The Band, and Twin Atlantic barely starts to describe the kind of tunes that erupt from the five-piece’s weapons of choice.
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Review: Breathe Carolina – Hello Fascination
August 20, 2009
It seems bands like Breathe Carolina are really splitting opinion at the moment. On one side you have their devoted fans, mainly teenage girls with a penchant for hairspray and eyeliner; on the other, you have… everybody else. And depending on which side you lie, you will either love this record or put it firmly in the ‘cancer that is killing music’ pile.
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