If you’re in a band, and it’s not High on Fire, you might want to give it up. After taking the Metal to Europe with Pelican, High on Fire is going to come back to the States and hit the road again this winter with Archons, Intronaut and Rwake. Dates (US and European) after the jump. (more…)

So while laying in bed in a semi-delusional state on Monday morning (I was sick) something snapped me back into reality. It was an unmistakable sound: Pinback, live. But I was listening to…NPR…didn’t make any sense. Since when does NPR appeal to me and my sensibilities so much?

Then the thought hit me: fuck, I’m getting to be an old liberal. Oh holy hell….

Whatever, I guess I’m cool with it, I just need to get some gray sweatervests and a beige turtle neck and I’ll be set. At least I’ll have my fucking live Pinback.

I never played V:tM or anything, but when no one’s looking, I like listen to female-fronted Euro prog/goth metal. I’m not sure if I really like it, but I like to listen to it. Maybe it’s all the pomp and circumstance, or the beautiful women in corsets, or because when I was in high school, I used to read Tolkien and Anne Rice novels in the library instead of eating lunch in the cafeteria.

This is getting embarrassing.

Uh…yeah… After Forever are from Holland. And now they’re coming to the US and Canada for the first time. Here are the tour dates and videos, after the jump. (more…)

Bright Eyes live at the Senator Theater, Chico, CA
Monday, Sept. 24th, 2007
Photos By Melissa Welliver

Check out a full review of the show at the new and sexy Synthesis.net.

The Great Lawn, Treasure Island, CA
Saturday, Sept. 16th
Photos by Ryan Prado

Check out a full review of the show at Synthesis.net. Photos of Two Gallants, Spoon, Built to Spill and others after the jump. (more…)

The Great Lawn, Treasure Island, CA
Saturday, Sept. 16th
Photos by Ryan Prado

Read the full review at Synthesis.net. Photos of Ghostland Observatory, M.I.A. and Thievery Corporation after the jump. (more…)