Following the disappearance of his teenage daughter five years ago, Rayburn Swanson (played by Danish actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) gave up hunting and started a wildlife sanctuary named after his daughter. He stuck with his drinking problem though and mostly keeps to himself.
Just when you thought this year couldn’t possibly get any worse, you find yourself watching ‘Black Christmas’.
Let’s be honest. The 1974 original already wasn’t that great to start with. The story - which revolved around a couple of sorority girls receiving threatening calls and then getting picked off one by one by a mysterious masked killer - is pretty cliché by today’s standards. Not so much back in 1974 when this was one of the first slasher movies ever. Which is kind of the main reason people still remember it. Well, that and because it inspired John Carpenter’s ‘Halloween’.
Just like everyone else, The Menzingers saw their plans for 2020 cut short. The band was on tour in Australia when the world seemed to abruptly stop due to COVID-19, forcing them to cut their tour short and make their way back to Philadelphia.
Folllowing the release of the 'Raise It High' EP and a tour with The Gaslight Anthem back in 2010, things went kinda quiet around Chamberlain. Did they call it a day? Far from it as it turns out. On November 30, these Midwest emo pioneers are will be releasing their brand new album 'Red Weather,' their first new full-length since 1998.
'Red Weather' was recorded and produced in Nashville by Carl Broemel, who plays guitar in My Morning Jacket.
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Field Day roars back with their second release of the year, Opposite Land. Doug Carrion and Peter Cortner honed the DC/LA hybrid style in Dag Nasty; now they up the octane with five loud, fast blasts of melodic punk that honor their roots while firmly establishing Field Day as its own band in the here and now.
The first time I heard Thalia Zedek was listening to Live Skull’s “Dusted” album. I loved the way her voice sat between the weaving guitar lines and thumping toms.
Kansas City emo veterans The Casket Lottery are back!
Stockholm post-punk hero's Viagra Boys have announced a new album Welfare Jazz, available January 8th via YEAR0001. The album is produced by Matt Sweeney (Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Run the Jewels), Justin and Jeremiah Raisen (Yves Tumor, Kim Gordon, Sky Ferreira) as well as past collaborators Pelle Gunnerfeldt and Daniel Fagerström (The Hives, The Knife).
Nashville punky pioneers of “rad dad rock”, Ghost Town Remedy, announced their debut full-length release, Dry Spell. The album will be out on November 20th via the band’s newly-formed Never Nude Records (pre-order).
Cloud Nothings returns to announce a new album due February 26th via Carpark Records and shares a new song and video from the forthcoming record. "Am I Something" is the first song from The Shadow I Remember, which finds the band reunited with producer Steve Albini, who helmed the production for their breakout 2012 album Attack On Memory.
