30.Jul.2009 From the IRCWHQ Newsedsk: News from Beaten Awake, The Suede Brothers, Video from P4K09 and More
* Kent’s Beaten Awake, now a four piece consisting of Jon Finley (vocals, guitar, keys, drums), Ryan Brannon (drums, guitar, bass, keys), Tom Raichel (bass, keys), and Gabe Schray (baritone guitar), will be releasing their second full length, Thunder$troke, October 13th on Fat Possum Records. It was recorded at Arkon’s Audio Eagle Studios with Patrick [...]
19.Jul.2009 2009 Pitchfork Music Festival Day 2: Fucked Up
When you hear Fucked Up on record, and especially, Damian Abraham’s shredded voice, you’re bound to make some assumptions about the Toronto progressive, post-hardcore band. For example, you might assume Abraham lives on a diet of smoothies– Glass, thumb tack, sandpaper, and bleach smoothies. Or, perhaps you’ve dug into the lyrics of one of their [...]
31.Mar.2009 The Rockometer Feat. Peter, Bjorn, and John, Abe Vigoda, Crystal Antlers, F*cked Up, Extra Golden, and Neko Case
Peter, Bjorn, and JohnLiving ThingAlmost Gold/Startime International Peter, Bjorn, and John, and Drum ‘n’ Bass? Peter, Bjorn, and John, and Kanye? Peter, Bjorn, John, and Spoon? Peter, Bjorn, and John and MIA? Peter, Bjorn, and John, and Paul Simon, and Peter Gabriel, too? On your first listen to Living Thing, Peter, Bjorn, and John’s follow [...]
13.Feb.2009 Five for Friday feat. Pterodactyl, F*cked Up, The Thermals, and More
Brah Records artist, Pterodactyl straddled a very thin line between nettlesome noise and noise rock on their self titled 2007 release, also known as the Blue Jay album. When they were on, their dinosaur squawk rock was a shock to the system sent straight to the spine of the soft rock indie rockers who have [...]
16.Dec.2008 I Rock Cleveland’s Year End Extravaganza Bonanza: 2008′s Top Albums
More than any other year of I Rock Cleveland’s Year End Extravaganza Bonanza, the 25 albums compiled in this list represent both the albums which I’ve personally enjoyed the most, and the albums which I hold in the highest critical regard. There are no consensus picks (Sorry, Fleet Foxes), no popular picks (Sorry, TV on [...]
24.Nov.2008 F*cked Up Do Daytrotter
Canadian hardcore/art-core/progressive core/all kinds of core you ain’t never dreamed of, band F*cked Up, recently stopped by Daytrotter to lay down an exclusive four song mix. Included in this free download, is a clean and crisp version of “Crooked Head,” now with 90% fewer guitar tracks than the original, a coutry punk/rockabily take on “Magic [...]
06.Oct.2008 The Rockometer feat. F*cked Up, TV on the Radio, Mercury Rev, and Dungen
Fucked UpThe Chemistry of Common LifeMatador Fucked Up aren’t out to save punk rock, and The Chemistry of Common Life wasn’t recorded with the explicit purpose of saving punk rock, but…Let’s say that something is wrong with punk rock today. Let’s say that it needs to be moved out of Hot Topic and the shopping [...]
10.Sep.2008 C’mon Get Heavy with F*cked Up
Over the past couple years, Fucked Up have built up a reputation as being one of the most forward thinking and most progressive, modern punk bands. First, there was the more epic than f*ck, 18+ minute “Year of the Pig,” single, released last year on What’s Your Rupture, and expanded and repackaged by Matador earlier [...]
12.Aug.2008 The Rockometer feat. Fucked Up, Oneida, Dr Dog, Sic Alps, Oxford Collapse, Julie Ocean, and David Vandervelde
Fucked UpYear of the Pig (2008 Matador EP)Matador Records Over the course of a year, Fucked Up’s more epic than epic, 18 minute, political, progressive punk statement, “Year of the Pig” has gone from a give ‘em credit for their ambition type of song to one of the essential songs of this decade, worthy of [...]
07.Jul.2008 “No Epiphany” by F*cked Up
You can file this one under beating a dead horse, as I probably say this every time a new Fucked up song is released, but here it goes anyways. Fucked Up are the most progressive, forward thinking punk rock band out there today, period. Need more proof? Matador just released, “No Epiphany” as a preview [...]
