By Jacob Sprecher On stage, The Reverend Horton Heat sticks out like a brilliantly sore thumb. He’s a big tall man with a big raspy voice and big red guitar, and his suits are loud enough to silence the frenetic psychobilly riffs blasting out from his Fender Super Reverb. The Reverend is also a bonafide [...]
Kid Congo Powers is of legendary status. He played guitar in The Cramps on Psychedelic Jungle and Smells Like Female; he played guitar in Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds on Tender Prey and The Good Son; he co-founded The Gun Club; he was creator and president of The Ramones fan club in 1976; he’s toured a blue streak the world over, and has more stories than God. And he’s a really, really nice guy with the gumption to laugh at himself. In light of the June 20th in support of his latest release with The Pink Monkey Birds, Gorilla Rose, whose namesake is homage to an obscure artist that influenced L.A.’s equally obscure formative punk group The Screamers.
Kyle Gass: the man, the myth, the legend. Mr. Gass, of Tenacious D fame, indeed has another group that may have slipped by our radar: Trainwreck. Currently out on the the road, Glass, aka Klip Calhoun, was kind enough to answer some questions for Synthesis regarding the band’s new album, The Wreckoning, the joys of live performance, and the chances of him becoming my new dad.
It started 30 years ago in Margret Thatcher’s England. The Cold War, threats of nuclear destruction and skyrocketing unemployment were stagnating youths. Times were ripe for unrest…
Perhaps you’ve heard of the Pixies? Arguably the most influential rock ‘n’ roll outfit of the last 20 some-odd years, contending only with Fugazi and Nirvana, it really doesn’t matter how you want to classify them…
With a foot already in the door because of Verellen’s previous band, Harkonen, Hydra Head was willing to put out Helms Alee’s first EP (Lionize/Truly) and highly praised first full-length Night Terror…
…the reality is that DEVO, founded in 1972 by Mark Mothersbaugh, was a prominent group in the late-‘70s new-wave movement, endearing a legion of fans and inspiring minions of like-minded bands with electro/punk musings and a bizarre futuristic live act…
photos by Aaron Seals
In a brief, very uninformative thread over at Absolute Punk, it was noticed that there’s a pre-sale going on for 1 show in Atlanta for a Sunny Day Real Estate show. Although there hasn’t been any major press release (or at least that I’m familiar with) from the band’s label or PR, I’m assuming this [...]
I’ve been wondering what’s been up with Rage Against the Machine’s ultra awesome guitarist Tom Morello recently. It turn out he’s, yet again, out forming super groups, this time with Boots Riley from the hip-hop group The Coup. To save you the TL;DR content found in the press release, the two are going to be [...]
