To describe Katzenjammer is to describe a music critic’s wet dream: four attractive Norwiegian women making music with obscure instrument after obscure instrument that takes elements of everything from Gogol Bordello’s Eastern-European folk-punk to the Derby Dolls retro-cabaret to the upbeat neo-country of Nickel Creek. The surprise? It actually works...

It was nearly two months ago that we gave you an exclusive preview of the first release from London's Local Action label, the self-titled EP from T.Williams, and now we've got more streaming goodness to share from the burgeoning imprint. The elusive Svpreme...

Professionally filmed footage of BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME belting out “Disease Injury and Madness”, live from New Brookland Tavern in Columbia, SC from November of last year, is now available for your viewing pleasure. A 3 camera shoot at The Masquerade will be up soon.

I do remember Birthday Party being exactly what I thought a rock n roll band should sound and look like.  From the record covers to the footage of their performances on Australian Television Programs, they bit me on the neck real quick. Rowland non-chalantly smacking his guitar with a cigarette...

Sad news out of Melbourne, Australia, as guitarist Rowland S. Howard passed away yesterday from liver cancer. He was 50 years old.Howard joined the Nick Cave-fronted The Birthday Party (then known as The Boys Next Door) in 1978 and was a guitarist and songwriter for the band...

Sad news out of Melbourne, Australia, as guitarist Rowland S. Howard passed away yesterday from liver cancer. He was 50 years old.Howard joined the Nick Cave-fronted The Birthday Party (then known as The Boys Next Door) in 1978 and was a guitarist and songwriter for the band...

Ac/Dc was recently forced to postpone the first six shows of the next leg of its "Black Ice" world tour, which was scheduled to begin on Thursday (October 1) in Phoenix, Arizona. The gigs were postponed because singer Brian Johnson is recovering from a medical procedure and was advised by...

As you may have noticed, K. Sparks hasn’t let the conclusion of Manic Mondays stop him from bringing us new music on the regular. While it’s no surprise that the Queens-based Microphone Fiend is back to kick off the week with another selection off his forthcoming, Booth-cosponsored mixtape, what fans...

The wait is finally over for AC/DC fans, with the band announcing those long awaited Australian Black Ice tour dates. The lads will visit Australia next February and March for the first time since 2001’s Stiff Upper Lip tour.

There’s plenty of gaps between the dates, suggesting that more...

According to Stuff.co.nz, Anglo-Australian hard rock legends AC/DC will return to New Zealand for the first time in 14 years as part of their Black Ice World Tour.

The band will arrive next January to play at outdoor stadiums in Wellington and Auckland in what's being billed as one...