New on my radar: Tombs
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Looking through some upcoming shows I found a band named Tombs who have a pretty decent thing going on right now, beings as they are touring around with the likes of Pelican and Wolves in the Throne Room.
I imagine Wolves In The Throne Room is alot better live than on record and the same goes for Pelican to a lesser extent. Something about
Schedule here:
February 20 Wilkes-Barre, PA Café Metropolis
February 21 New York, NY ABC No Rio (matinee show w/ BLACK ANVIL, WOE)
February 21 Brooklyn, NY Death By Audio (record release show w/ DEFEATIST, ENGINEER)
***All dates from March 15 thru 18 w/ PELICAN, DREDG***
March 15 Iowa City, IA Picador
March 16 Kansas City, MO Riot Room
March 17 Tulsa, OK The Marquee
March 18 San Antonio, TX Scout Bar (w/ TRICKY)
***All dates from March 19 thru April 5 w/ PELICAN, WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM***
March 19 Little Rock, AR Vino’s
March 22 Austin, TX Red 7
March 25 Tempe, AZ The Sets
March 26 San Diego, CA The Casbah
March 27 Los Angeles, CA Troubador
March 28 San Francisco, CA Slim’s
March 29 Portland, OR Hawthorne Theatre
March 30 Bellingham, WA Nightlight Lounge
March 31 Seattle, WA Neumo’s
April 2 Salt Lake City, UT Club Vegas
April 3 Denver, CO Marquis Theatre
April 5 Chicago, IL Empty Bottle
April 17 Brooklyn, NY Alligator Greenpoint (free show w/ BLACK ANVIL, DEFEATIST)
These guys have a recent video to drum up some support for a release this tuesday.
This song really reminds me of Killing Joke mixed with Neurosis/Isis. It’s actually really hard to pin these guys down. The video is pretty standard performance material with pretty much zero concept.
Tombs’ will also be performing live on WFMU 91.1 on Thursday, February 12th as part of “Diane’s Kamikaze Fun Machine” show. This show airs every Thursday from 3:00 to 5:00 pm EST. Tombs’ set can be streamed live at WFMU.org.
Wolves in the Throne Room – Queen of the Borrowed Light
February 19th, 2009 at 10:42 am
Hiya! I’m going through your blog, catching up… so excuse the late comments :)… I love this Pelican track, thanks! Ok, so here’s my problem… help me out… the tunes are great on a lot of what you got up here, but once I get to the vocals I hate it. That happens to me in hardcore/grindcore/metal music. I think that’s why I trend towards experimental/electro/noise. I just hate that growl, if you’re gonna sing then sing and if you’re gonna make some noisy vocalizations then do that but don’t make it singing. Am I crazy? Maybe I’m just an old skool punk girl who can’t be cured. And point me to some new music, please! xoxoxo
February 19th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
That Pelican track is so good, I never want it to end. I used to play similar music with friends just jammin.
As far as the vocal thing is concerned, I hope I don’t sound all sexist, but, it’s really a female thing I think. I think it’s sooooo cute when my girlfriend says to me in a very concerned voice, “listen, I don’t know if you can tell, but that’s not music that you are listening to, they aren’t even singing”.
Another factor is that oftentimes, the guitars are dropped, the tones are dissonant and it’s hard to sing and sound tough. Tough used to be a word I used to describe bands all the time. “Have you heard the new Terror album? It’s fuckin tough”. A really common
Actually, I think I need a blog post to really explain the appeal of possible permanent vocal chord damage. I’ve been thinking about it for awhile.
February 19th, 2009 at 7:36 pm
Uh no. There’s plenty of punk music with loads of testosterone and actual singing in it, and not just pop/punk either. The Dead Kennedys, the Buzzcocks, Sham69, Bum Kon, and perhaps the best of old skool punk, the Misfits are fine examples of singing and even some shouting which I find acceptable (!) but not that horrible noise that has surfaced post Metallica in American music.
That’s my argument and I’m sticking to it :-p
As for what’s “music” well, I’ll not go as far as your gf, given my love for Rolo Tomassi! (which has a fair amount of screaming but not in the growly way, maybe there has to be more interesting music going on to justify it?)
xoxo,
Tart