News Feed for Thursday, May 25
In the news today: Marc Ribot, The Bad Plus, Buck Meek, Noel Gallagher, Oasis, Lzzy Hale, Ashley McBryde, Jenny Lewis, Converge, Smoking Popes
Tag: Converge
All Downhill From Here
Book collecting 10 years of reviews, interviews, and columns from Scene Point Blank.
Isis/ The Melvins
Though The Melvins were official headliners, soon-to-be defunct Isis stepped in as the closing band for a Philadelphia show that shook the rafters of the TLA. Get the scoop on the show and read Mike Hanan’s revealing chat with Isis frontman Aaron Turner. That’s a twofer, folks!
Jumpercable
EP (Monkey Wrench). Review by Jen Cray.
Coliseum
No Salvation (Relapse). Review by Jen Cray.
Botch
American Nervoso (Hydra Head Records). Review by Andrew Coulon.
Army of Flying Robots
Life is Cheap (Superfi Records). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Isis
In The Absence of Truth (Ipecac). Review by Bob Ham.
Freya
Life The Curse (Victory). Review by Jen Cray.
Unsound
Unsound (Epitaph). Review by David Barker.
Drowningman
Learn To Let It Go (Law of Inertia). Review by Addam Donnelly.
Converge
You Fail Me (Epitaph). Review by Daniel Mitchell.
There Were Wires
Somnambulists (Iodine). Review by Addam Donnelly.
From a Second Story Window
Not One Word Has Been Omitted (Black market Activities). Review by Daniel Mitchell.
Curl Up And Die
…But The Past Ain’t Through With Us (Revelation). Review by Addam Donnelly.
Flowers in the Attic Roma Delenda Est
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Flowers in the Attic Roma Delenda Est
Split 7” (McCarthyism). Review by Daniel Mitchell.
Give Up The Ghost
We’re Down Til’ We’re Underground (Equal Vision). Review by Nick Plante.
Give Up The Ghost
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100 Demons
100 Demons (Deathwish). Review by Stein Haukland.
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