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Incoming! 23 for ’23: The Rock And Roll Fables Guide To The Greatest The Next Year Has To Offer… As Of Right Now

27 January 2023 By jesse Leave a Comment

Here we go again! Part wishful thinking, part playing detective while piecing together social media updates, and part actual facts! We could only be talking about our latest crystal ball viewing as we look to the year 2023 and hope for the best that those “confirmed” releases actually come out and that maybe our thoughts and prayers are answered when it comes to those with less concrete plans as of this posting. Join us, won’t you?

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Filed Under: Music, New Releases, Rock And Roll Fables Tagged With: 16Volt, 2023 music, 72 Seasons, A Cause In Distress, Andy LaPlegua, Anthrax, Blackened, Cattle Decapitation, Century Media, Combichrist, Cool Thing Records, Corrosion Of Conformity, Drab Majesty, Eldridge Rodriguez, Electric Sun, Every Time I Die, Filter, Garrett Vernon, Golden Robot Records, Grave Pleasures, Hinayana, In Flames, Jason Bieler, Jason Bieler And The Baron Von Bielski Orchestra, Josh Homme, Matador, Metal Blade Records, Metallica, Metropolis Records, Midriff Records, Narrow Head, Nuclear Blast Records, Peter Gabriel, Project 86, Prong, QOTSA, Queens Of The Stone Age, Replicant, Richard Patrick, Rock And Roll Fables, Run For Cover Records, Silent Civilian, Stanton Moore, Steve Albini, Sunshine Riot, Terrasite, Texas Hippie Coalition, The Cure, The Faint, VNV Nation, VOWWS, Will Haven

Ritual Howls Hit The Road With The Faint In Support Of Rendered Armor Which We Finally Reviewed

31 July 2019 By jesse Leave a Comment

Spotify is a godsend, okay? Say what you will about the streaming platform but without them and their daily mixes I would’ve never stumbled across artists like Soviet Soviet, She Past Away, or Ritual Howls who just hit Boston as direct support for The Faint while supporting their latest, Rendered Armor which was released in March.

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Filed Under: Album Reviews, Music, New Releases, Rock And Roll Fables Tagged With: Ben Saginaw, Christopher Samuels, Felte Records, Paul Bancell, Rendered Armor, Ritual Howls, Rock And Roll Fables, The Faint

19 for ’19: An Even More Exhaustive Look/Speculation On What Will Float Yer Collective Boats In The Coming Year

26 December 2018 By jesse 1 Comment

Holy hell do we have to nip this thing in the bud before we even start! The idea was to have 19 solid releases that are in various states of development to fill out our list of most anticipated for 2019 (Get it? 19 in ’19) but then we kept thinking about ALL THE REST that are due (supposedly) so we had to add a precursor to said list which, well, got kind of insane. So for your reading pleasure is this stream of consciousness thing we concocted before the actual list which follows directly after. We even put artists in bold so you can skip around the wordsplosion that’s about to happen. Thanks in advance for reading! [Read more…]

Filed Under: Music, New Releases, Rock And Roll Fables Tagged With: Devin Townsend, Drab Majesty, Egowerk, Eldridge Rodriguez, Filter, Front Line Assembly, Ghastly Sound, Harborlights, harborlights band, He Is Legend, Johnny Kelly, Mr. Kitty, Pelican, Rammstein, Richard Patrick, Rock And Roll Fables, Rotting Christ, Sacred Reich, Silvertomb, Slipknot, The Faint, Torche, tr/st, White Bat, White Lies

Rock And Roll Fables Presents: 18 for ’18 AKA What We Think You Should Be Spending Your $$$ On In The New Year

3 January 2018 By jesse 1 Comment

In a year that is about to hit us with new and highly anticipated offerings from Arctic Monkeys, Interpol, Guster, Monster Magnet, Butthole Surfers, and…ahem…The Offering (Get it? Because I said “new offerings” then added that The Offering has a new album coming…), we present to you a list of even more albums that we think will be pleasing to the earholes. Won’t you please join us?

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Filed Under: Music, New Releases, Rock And Roll Fables Tagged With: "Ghost", 2018 in music, A Pale Horse Named Death, A Perfect Circle, Alice In Chains, Amerikkkant, Clutch, Devin Townsend Project, Eldridge Rodriguez, Grady Avenell, Lizzard, Middle Class Rut, Ministry, Misery Loves Co., Nachtmystium, Robert Alfons, Rock And Roll Fables, Silvertomb, The Clay People, The Faint, The Soft Moon, tr/st, White Noise Owl, Will Haven

CLOSENESS Brings Love And Warmth To The Synthetic Sounds Of Personality Therapy

24 January 2017 By jesse Leave a Comment

Who doesn’t love love?

CLOSENESS is the pairing of husband and wife indie darlings Todd and Orenda Fink better known from their day jobs fronting The Faint and Azure Ray respectively. On their debut EP they do not disappoint, meshing their separate styles seamlessly to birth a totally unique album that will satiate all the Fink fans. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Album Reviews, Music, New Releases, Rock And Roll Fables Tagged With: Azure Ray, CLOSENESS, Graveface Records, Orenda Fink, Personality Therapy, Rock And Roll Fables, The Faint, Todd Fink

The Faint Take A Trip Down Memory Lane With A Detour Into The Future On CAPSULE:1999-2016

13 September 2016 By jesse Leave a Comment

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Only The Faint could compel a review of a ‘best of’ compilation out of us. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Album Reviews, Music, New Releases, Rock And Roll Fables Tagged With: CAPSULE:1999-2016, Clark Baechle, Dapose, Jacob Thiele, Michael Dappen, Rock And Roll Fables, Saddle Creek, Saddle Creek Records, The Faint, Todd Fink

Rock And Roll Fables Best/Worst Of 2014: Editor’s Picks

27 December 2014 By jesse 2 Comments

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Ah, fuck it! I was all poised to do another “Top 14 of 14” music list and then Bostonregina inspired me yet again to do a post like hers from last year (And hopefully this year, bb????) Anywho, without further adieu, here’s the RNRF Editor’s pick for 2014:

Best Album: The Faint-Doom Abuse

2014 was the year that electronics totally owned me or I totally gave myself up to electronic music. I’m still not sure yet. Either way, whether it was new discoveries like Mr. Kitty or Trust or Skinny Puppy ruling the live scene, electronic music simply owned my life this year. One of my favorite electronic bands also happened to drop a bombshell of an album this year seemingly out of nowhere. The Faint quietly reconvened in 2012 for the Danse Macabre tour and an EP of all new music and then…nothing. That nothing turned out to be this year’s Doom Abuse which was released in April. Taking the best parts of all of their previous albums and infusing their sound with an urgency not heard in some time, The Faint is more alive now then ever before. For our review, head on over here. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Movies, Music, New Releases, Rock And Roll Fables, Television Tagged With: Arrow CW, Cassidy Freeman, Doom Abuse, Forever CBS, Grant Gustin, Interstellar movie, John Wesley Shipp, John Wick, Katee Sackhoff, Keanu Reeves, Longmire, Lou Diamond Phillips, Mr. Kitty, Netflix, Nivek Ogre, Rhys Fulber, Robert Taylor, Rock And Roll Fables, Skinny Puppy, The Faint, The Flash CW, True Detective, Young Guns

Doom Abuse: The ultimate The Faint record?

28 March 2014 By jesse 1 Comment

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Doom Abuse, The Faint’s sixth album, took way too long to come out. Considering that The Faint ceased to be somewhere in the six years since their last album (2008’s Fasciination) was released it’s a miracle that fans are even holding a copy of Doom Abuse in their hands. But speaking of the album you should almost be holding in your hands by now (Vinyl copies are out now, available on CD and digitally April 8th), it is by and large well worth the wait. The sound of a band reinvigorated  and taking stock of what made them great in the first place but branching out into unknown territory at the same time, Doom Abuse grabs hold of everything that made The Faint unique in the past and fuses it with something even more futuristic and awesome. Worth the wait? Eff yes!

Mildly teased at the end of 2012 with the 10th anniversary Danse Macabre tour that heralded the “Evil Voices” 12″ (The sinister “Unseen Hand” has been slightly retooled to fit in here while “Evil Voices” remains mostly intact), Doom Abuse is finally here and it is easily the best, most fun, and most cohesive album The Faint has concocted thus far.

This is an album that was made to be danced to from the opening dischordant squeal of “Help In The Head” through to the synth fade out on “Damage Control”. The Faint live is this infectious moving beast that compels the audience to follow suit and dance like maniacs. Doom Abuse is a great soundtrack to that through and through. There’s the punk rock rabble rousings from Fasciination (“Salt My Doom”, “Scapegoat”), Danse Macabre throwbacks (“Lessons From The Darkness”) and some things that are completely new (“Mental Radio” is a Gary Numan meets The Cure amalgamation while “Dress Code” goes for Freedom Of Choice-era Devo).

In other words, Doom Abuse has *ahem* something for everybody.

At the end of the day, this was the album The Faint needed to make after their hiatus. Todd Fink is at the top of his game on every track (Especially on the quintessential “Loss Of Head”), Dapose is a sonic maelstrom throughout as well while Jacob Thiele creates these epic synthetic soundscapes (“Animal Needs”) and Clark Baechle just keeps the beat alive incessantly.

Doom Abuse is out now as a Deluxe Double Vinyl Edition and out on April 8th in CD and digital formats.

 

 

Filed Under: Album Reviews, Music Tagged With: Clark Baechle, Dapose, Doom Abuse, doom abuse album review, Jacob Thiele, Rock And Roll Fables, The Faint, the faint new album 2014, Todd Fink

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