System of a Down drummer John Dolmayan is on his soapbox again, airing his right wing political views on social media as he so often has before. Spurring his ire this time is a tragic story out of Atlanta, where… Read More
Sohrab Habibion has been a staple of post-hardcore, punk, and indie rock for over 30 years, having fronted the classic '80s/'90s band Edsel before joining Drive Like Jehu/Hot Snakes' Rick Froberg in Obits and then forming his current band SAVAK,… Read More
Congratulations on making it another week through 2020. As you may know, Notable Releases is about this week's new albums, but before I get to that, here's some stuff we ran on BV this week about older music to occupy… Read More
“My brother and I, we went from posing in front of our bedroom mirror with hairbrushes and broomsticks to begging our parents for actual guitars to writing songs that would eventually end up on our first record to playing shows… Read More
Specializing in the kind of thrillers that explore the interstitial spaces that are moral dilemmas, Hugh Fleetwood has made a career out of consigning characters to a world of habitual anxiety. His work was brought to wide attention with The… Read More
Purling Hiss frontman Mike Polizze will release his debut solo album, Long Lost Solace Find, on July 31 via Paradise of Bachelors. Purling Hiss are known for being very loud, but this shows his softer side. "This record is largely… Read More
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Late soul legend Bobby Womack's 1984 song "American Dream," which uses part of Martin Luther King Jr's 1961 speech of the same name, feels as relevant now as it did 36 years ago. As this year's Fourth of July comes during… Read More
20. 7 Seconds – “Fuck Your Amerika” 7 Seconds were a band of posicore crewsters that cruised back and forth across America in a beat-up van offering their drug free version of streamlined hardcore, but by the late 1980s they… Read More
David Gilmour's wife, Polly Samson, recently released her new novel A Theatre for Dreamers, which is set in 1960 on the Greek island of Hydra, "where a circle of poets, painters and musicians live tangled lives, ruled by the writers… Read More