Gatherer: crushing post-hardcore from Bayonne

Gatherer has a sick 4-song EP out called Postcards that's reminiscent of Saetia, Touche Amore, La Dispute and Modern Life is War. It's available on 7'' through new Virginia label Glass Nail Records. You can hear the ache of frustration in the singer's voice that stretches to an intensity that emotionally compelling. This is a keeper. Keep your head up hide though your hearts in the ground. I'll give you a call the next time I'm around. - from Gatherer's song "Jones Beach"

Generic Insight Radio Fest in Brooklyn March 11 & 12 f/ Iron Chic & Grey Area

Barrie Cohn of Generic Insight Radio has done it again, folks. This March you'll get a chance to see over 30 DIY punk, hardcore, and indie bands in Brooklyn!!! Check out the line-up below. Who are you excited to see?

GENERIC INSIGHT RADIO FEST 2 PRESENTED BY:

GENERIC INSIGHT RADIO, BLACK NUMBERS, ACADEMY FIGHT SONG AND MIGHTIER THAN SWORD RECORDS
...

March 11 + 12 2011 @ Party Expo
929 Broadway
Brooklyn, NY

(bands listed as playing from headliner to first)

Friday March 11, 2011

doors @ 7:00pm

Iron Chic
Slingshot Dakota
Soul Control
Daytrader
Spanish Gamble
Mayflower
Banquets
Ghost Robot Ninja Bear
Oak and Bone
Like Wolves
Censors

Saturday March 12, 2011

doors @ 1:00pm

Grey Area
Another Breath
Snowing
Go Rydell
My Heart To Joy
Mikey Erg
The Saddest Landscape
Timeshares
Static Radio NJ
Big Eyes
The Great Explainer
We Were Skeletons
Nightmares For A Week
Caleb Lionheart
Highlites
The Holy Mess
Luther
After the Fall
Restorations
The Stereo State
Paul Blest

ADVANCE TICKETS:

Go to http://theblacknumbers.com/ to purchase!

Friday - $12
Saturday $15
or $25 for a weekend pass

Tickets will be available at the door on both days, too! 

All ages, 21+ to drink with I.D.

Poster artwork by Jason Lubrano of Iron Chic/Righteous Indignation. SCREEN-PRINTED versions of this poster are going to be done by Teddy Casper of Mayflower and sold at the show!

NJ's Tear It Up playing reunion shows in Kearny, NJ & Brooklyn, NY

New Jersey hardcore act Tear It Up will reunite this March to play two local shows. Tear is Up formed in 2000 and after three years disbanded, but they are back to play a Hardcore Gig Volume show in Brooklyn and a Killing Horse Records show in Kearny. Don't sleep on this. Tickets are going fast. 

March 25, 2011 @ Europa, Brooklyn, NY

6:30pm. $10. ALL AGES. 

TEAR IT UP - Reunion, Nothing To Nothing line up, catchy fun hardcore punk

LAST IN LINE - Hardcore Punk Western Massholes, Reunion

CELL MATES - New Hardcore band from Maryland, Members of Deep Sleep

Tickets here: http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=3406485

March 26, 2011 @ The Irish, Kearny, NJ
7pm. $10. ALL AGES.

TEAR IT UP (reunion)
FULL SPEED AHEAD (a rare appearance)
NIGHT BIRDS (NJ/Brooklyn surf punks, singles collection CD release show)
Loose Ends (NJ's newest rock 'n roll band)

Tickets here: http://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/26053/tfly

Brooklyn Punk Update

Some news for you!


Trio punk outfit Pregnant is releasing a new 12-inch in August through Burn Books. They have 3 record release shows lined up.  Aug 6th @ 538 Johnson St. Aug 7th in New Brunswick. Aug 8th in Phlilly.

Quick punksters Byrds of Paradise just released two new 7-inch records, one on Don Giovanni and one on Wild World. They have a few NYC shows coming up. July 10 at Lit Lounge with The State Department, July 26 at Knitting Factory with Mahogany and Weekends, and Aug 4 at Death by Audio with Sleepies and Whatever Brains.

Female thrashers Zombie Dogs finished recording a 12''. Details have not been released so far.

If Siren Fest's not your deal, then head over to the Boneyard, 1410 Lincoln Place, Brooklyn, to see Kicking Spit, Big Eyes, and Knifey Spooney.

Album Review: Chambers get heavy with 'Old Love'

Chambers- Old Love

Union, NJ

Self-Released 

Release Date: June 22, 2010

By Star Child

When I first saw Chambers open for Gallows in a outrageously, but to be expected, pipping hot basement in New Brunswick last July, I thought the band was pretty good for an opening act. The door guy nicely handed me a wrist band for myself and fellow friends to attend the show. I had no idea that the guy was Chamber's Dan Pelic and he lived at the house. I also  had no idea that my first time seeing them was the band's first show. I impressed. The band has been playing shows locally ever since and in less than a year's time has its first full-length out. So enough background, let's get to the review. 

Metal fans. Hardcore fans. Punk fans. Rejoice. Jersey locals Chambers delivers an album to satisfy all your tastes. On Old Love, the band maintain the heaviness of metal, the attitude of hardcore, and the edge of punk. Simply put this is a heavy album with angry undertones, driving rhythms, and chuggy riffs with an anthemic vibe. "Ripper" is a  good example of the band's fueling sound. Heavy riffs. Beasty vocals. "Old Love" squeals on. Singer Pelic screams "You're fucking dead to me." "Crap Out " is driving with some clean vocals. "The Nest" is on the heaviest and angriest songs on the albums. There's a chuggy riff midway through the song and one of the most  notable lines goes: "I lived to hurt you/And my chambers are your fucking vice." These 11 songs don't let up. These songs rip.

Old Love is available across digial retailers: I-tunes, Rhapsody, MySpace Music, Amazon, EMUSIC, LALA, IMVU, Amie St, Shockhound.com, Nokia Music Store and the Lime Wire Store.

Also, make sure to call up WSOU 89.5 FM and request "The Ripper." 973-761-9768 (WSOU) 

Death First post new songs + Tour Dates

Death First @ Death By Audio, Brooklyn. 2009

Photo by mackenzie

Brooklyn hardcore outfit Death First have posted two new songs called “Rock Camp” and “Spread Thin.” Vocalist Jessy brings a forceful, urgent sing-shout style to the band's driving sound. The 4-piece also posted tour dates for their upcoming March and April tour of the northeast. Right now the band have a few dates confirmed, including March 17 in NYC with Capsule, March 18 and 19 in Brooklyn, March 26 in New Brunswick with Zhenia Golov, and April 30 in Montclair.

Crime in Stereo Record Release Shows + New Album

Crime in Stereo is playing a record release show at NYC's Generation Records on Feb. 23 to support of their new album I Was Trying to Describe You To Someone that drops that day. The free in-store is at 7:30pm and all ages, but first-come, first serve, so arrive early. After, the band plays three record releases in PA, NYC, and MA. They return to NYC for a show at The Studio at Webster Hall with Robbers, Tiger's Jaw, and Let Me Run. Tickets are $12. On March 4 the band begins a headlining tour The Wonder Years.

Crime in Stereo Record Release Shows:

2/25 @ The Note in West Chester, PA (The Menginzers & Balance and Composure)

2/26 @ The Studio @ Webster Hall, NYC (Let Me Run, Tiger's Jaw, Robbers)

2/27 @ The Middle East in Boston, MA (Defeater, Transit, Make Do and Mend)

Punch/Death First @ Death By Audio 7-24-09

This past Friday I attended a hardcore/punk show featuring Punch, Nomos, Olde Ghost, and Death First at Death by Audio in Brooklyn. Hardcore is a genre of music that is very intense, fast, short, and honest. Last time I was at Death by Audio for a hardcore show Zombie Dogs, Deathrats, and others played but nobody moved around. It would be different this time as there was 2-stepping, jumping, and moshing present, especially for San Fransisco's female fronted 5-piece, Punch. However, my only complaint is that while these songs, as great as they are, stir up all this moving, the songs are far too short and often end quite abruptly. I want there to be practically non-stop moving and for the energy to hardly let up. But it was a good show, as short as it was.


More videos from the show can be viewed here.

Blacklisted @ Knitting Factory, NYC 6/8

Being alone at a hardcore show isn’t as bad as I thought it would be, as I came to experience tonight after seeing Blacklisted, Ceremony, Life Long Tragedy, and Sabertooth Zombie in an early night performance at Knitting Factory in NYC. It went down at the club’s 200 capacity tap bar space. The audience was ready and pumped to witness the onslaught of these bands.

I missed the first band Condominium, but caught most of Sabertooth Zombie, whose brand of hardcore, surprisingly included a real rock n’ roll vibe with punk sounds to. Next was Life Long Tragedy where kids started jumping on each other, close to the foot high stage, hanging from the ceiling, two stepping, and shaking heads. It was with LLT where I saw the crowd really come alive. Ceremony came on motivating with its fast and short songs, causing me to move around and shake a bit at points during the intro and sweet bass parts. Blacklisted closed with a short, but energetic set, playing songs exclusively off their latest release, “Heavier Than Heaven, Lonelier Than God.”

I enjoyed watching the crowd get into it, screaming lyrics, and dancing around. I just wished the band would quickly flow from song to the next. I wanted to keep moving, but felt awkward when all of a sudden the music would stop and I had to get back into it again. But, it was great to finally experience a show at the tap bar for the first time. It was such a release. I needed this show.