New Releases

Sierra mixes old school Tool with COC-style swamp boogie on debut album Pslip!

The debut release from Kylesa mainman Philip Cope’s Retro Futurist label is here and it is a glorious amalgamation of everything that can go right in the world of heavy rawk. The band is Sierra, the album is Pslip, and they deliver a down home-style rock album straight from the [...]

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The Greater Wrong of the Right re-issue: How Skinny Puppy got her groove back

The Skinny Puppy renaissance of the 21st Century began in 2004 with the release of The Greater Wrong of the Right, their first new studio recording in eight years. Ten years later and the band is better than ever and even more potent releasing one of their best to date [...]

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14 for ’14: A Rock And Roll Fables guide to new music in the new year!

If I follow this thought process, 2025 is going to be a very long post. Anywho, there’s some new music coming out in 2014 that I really think you should pay attention to. Here goes nothing (No particular order, by the way): 1. He Is Legend (Untitled/TBC) What kind of [...]

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Hank & Cupcakes complete a 180 on new single “Countdown”. Sort of.

Hank & Cupcakes is poised for great things, that’s for sure. On their debut album, Naked!, this Brooklyn-based duo set the music world ablaze with an electro-pop romp that made listeners want to dance and rock their socks off at the same time. On “Countdown”, the first single from their [...]

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White Noise Owl prepare to destroy your earholes in 2014!

Amidst the nu-metal craze of the mid-’90’s, some actual great musicians and some actual great bands got lumped in and swallowed up. Luckily for music fans, some of those musicians have persevered over the years and a group of said talented individuals have formed White Noise Owl whose debut EP [...]

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Second Grave release Antithesis, prepare to destroy Cambridge on Saturday then the World!

  It’s not often that heavy metal has the perfect combination of ear-crunching music and pristine vocals. I was pleasantly surprised when I saw Second Grave play to a sparse crowd at Ralph’s earlier in the year when they managed to hit that mark. Their new EP Antithesis promises not [...]

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