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The Von Bondies‘ Jason Stollsteimer is no stranger to MCR, having recently talked to us about his last record, Love, Hate, and Then There’s You. In anticipation of his band’s show at Detroit’s Magic Stick this Friday, Jason took some time to talk about the past 10 years of The Von Bondies as that band winds down for the time being and he focuses on a new project, The Hounds Below.
Why the Magic Stick? When was the last time you played there?
It’s our 10 year anniversary. It’s been awhile… but old friends own it… and i started playing there back in 2000, in The Baby Killers. And the Stick lets me do what I want.
So The Baby Killers were formed 10 years ago?
Yup. First show was 10 years ago… 10 years with Don Blum.
That’s so long. Did you and Don hit it off as bandmates right away?
Ha, sure. Ups and downs like any real friendship.
He’s the only original Von Bondie left in the band after 10 years.
Yup. I started in the band as the bass player, before Don joined we had a different singer, very riot grrrl-style singing… It drove us all crazy, haha. I didn’t start singing for a year or two after we started.
So did the original singer quit or did you just swap positions?
We all kicked her out.
Is that when you became The Von Bondies or did you still play as The Baby Killers after that?
Still The Baby Killers. We turned into The Von Bondies around the time Don joined.
Don came from Mazinga, right? Was he in other bands too?
He was in tons of bands when I met him. I liked Mazinga a lot… they were the best party/house show band in Ypsi. But, funny enough I was not a big fan of Don’s drumming in Mazinga. I just loved his energy, untapped raw talent.
I think that energy really carries through in his contributions to The Von Bondies.
Yup, especially live. My favorite description of the original touring line up was from The LA WEEKLY. It said, “The Von Bondies’ live show is two ice queens bookending the orgasmic explosion that is Jason Stollsteimer and Don Blum”. We might not have been the best musicians but we had a good time.
That’s rock n’ roll. You do get that sense of juxtaposition in the band though.
I would have to agree.
Was that a conscious effort on your part, or did it just kind of work out that way with everyone’s personalities?
Well Don and I were the pistons in constant motion. I always wanted to have The Von Bondies be one big constant explosion… we never had that in the early years, but we do now.
So let’s talk about the present Von Bondies.
The best touring lineup ever.
It’s been a good tour, this past year?
Yes. We have never done this well in Canada. We had an idea of what the UK/US would be like. Also France was amazing, better than anytime before.
Any particularly memorable shows?
A show we did in the middle of France at a festival… it was in an area we had never been to and there was constant stage diving, crowd surfing and moshing. It reminded me of the 90′s when people would let loose and try to have as much fun as possible. Also the crowd sang along to everything, even the new songs.
Instead of just like, the typical hipster head-nodding.
Haha. Yeah. I don’t get it. If you’re young and you’re paying to see a band… and the band is even halfway decent… why not have a good time? It’s your money. I used to love crowd surfing. I’ve done it in Australia while on tour.. and in the UK back in the day. I just worried about my one guitar getting broke.
Haha. Rock n’ roll is better as a participatory thing. I’m sure it’s better for both sides if everyone is putting energy into it and having a good time. You literally have one guitar?
Back in 2003/04 I did. I couldn’t afford to bring an extra one overseas. Now I have two for touring. I have a bunch of weird, crazy guitars.
You have a brother who sells them, right? Does he have the hook-up?
He works at Hollywood vintage in LA. He’s the best, no matter how much I practice I will never be as good as he is on guitar. Thats’ why I concentrate on singing. No hook-up really. He keeps his eyes out for what I want. So far I have everything I want.
Haha. Do you use them for The Von Bondies? What’s your favorite?
My favorite for The Von Bondies is my Mosrite Celebrity one. It’s my first hollow body. But for my other band I play something different.
Are you referring to The Hounds Below?
Yes.
So what is the Hounds Below? You’ve played in that group previously, correct?
Roy Orbison meets… BRMC, I guess. It’s 6 people. I just sing mainly. We have a Facebook page if you need info.
I plan on releasing a 7″ sometime in October. We are playing with The Raveonettes and The Black Angels. Also on September 10th with the Black Hollies at the Majestic Cafe.
Cool. So many players, it can’t all be guitars. Is there piano as well?
There’s organ/piano. Do you know some of the members?
I do… Sean Lynch from 800beloved, Ben Collins from Lightning Love, Molly-Jean from The Decks, and Jeremy Freer from Freer.
Jeremy’s from The Juliets.
Oh, right. I think I can almost get a sense of what such a group might sound like… but we’ll see, I guess!
Everyone in the band has been a front person, either presently or in the past.
That’s interesting. Who were in the previous live version of The Hounds Below?
Drew Bardo, Leann Banks, Jef Fourner and the same drummer, Brandon. I like to keep the same drummer.
Yeah. So from forming a supergroup of sorts, as well as inviting newer bands like Lightning Love and Millions of Brazilians to open your shows, you’ve been very chummy with local bands lately.
Yup. There is always talent pouring out of the cracks of the state of Michigan.
“Scene” has been such a dirty word in recent years, though.
Yup.
So this last year has been a bit of an experiment for the promotional cycle for Love, Hate, and Then There’s You.
Haha.
It’s the first time you’re off of a major label.
Yes, but for the last week or so, I’ve been trying to decide what to do next. We have a few labels sniffing around asking about the next record, and some pretty cool managers also.
Are you leery? How’d the experiment go?
It was so so. I did better when I put out the live record myself. But I’m good at running a tight ship, label or band.
Do you know who Spinnerette/ The Distillers are?
Yeah I know [frontwoman] Brody well. Nice lady. I love her drummer from The Distillers… he’s a class guy. We both got signed to Sire at the same time.
Yeah, and you both jumped ship from Sire at the same time too.
Yup. It was a joint decision. When a ship is being run ashore. just jump off and walk away.
From interviews it sounds like it was the same story… of being stifled by the label. So do you think that age of big ships might be ending? No more $1,000,000 contracts? Or do you think bands need that support to be able to tour and get their records distributed? Having experienced both the major and the indie, what’s your take?
Well we had a great record deal. Yes, the $1,000,000 deals are not needed for rock bands. But tour support definitely is, if they want you to build a following as a new band around the world. We didn’t have any tour support for the first 4/5 years. Just for about 6 months. My song writing licensing paid for mostly everything.
Were you able to make it overseas without a major?
We went overseas two times before we were on a major. The first time we all payed for it. The second I covered the costs… don’t think the band back then ever knew that. We’ve been to Euro/UK 5 times and Australia 2 times, and the US 12 times and Canada 6.
Wow. So do you think it is possible for bands these days to get out there without the majors?
Yes, but not to sustain unless they start to catch fire. Some bands just find their fan base overnight. Some have to build it. It’s not about who you know… well, it’s about playing everywhere you can for about a year of touring at the start then deciding if it makes sense to go again. I mean it’s common sense if it’s worth it to tour. Give yourself at least a year, then decide whether to move on.
So is this really The Von Bondies’ last show?
We have more shows outside of Michigan. Like on Sunday we play with NIN, Cold War Kids, Mew and Pet Shop Boys in Toronto at The Virgin Festival. We are doing the main stage. We’re very excited. Then on the 3rd we play with Weezer in Kansas.
Will there be another Von Bondies record?
Well, if it makes sense. I have half of one written. But I’m doing The Hounds Below. I have a whole record ready for them.
The Hounds Below is the focus for the immediate future?
Yes.
Will that be self-released?
The 7″, the first one will be. After that I have a few labels interested, indie. I’m in no hurry. Molly-Jean helps me a lot in The Hounds Below with organizing. I’ve never had that in The Von Bondies. The band just like not having the pressure on them, and just have a good time. They are great musicians but when they sing it’s hard to do everything you can do on your instrument. But in The Hounds they just have to play and have fun.
Sounds cool… well I look forward to seeing The Von Bondies on Friday and The Hounds Below a bit later.
Thanks man.
The Von Bondies play at The Magic Stick in Detroit this Friday the 28th with 800beloved and The Juliets.
Jason Stollsteimer and his Von Bondies return to Detroit to play St. Andrew’s Hall with Millions of Brazilians on Saturday, March 28th in support of Love, Hate, and Then There’s You. Here is the second half of MCR’s interview with Jason, conducted just before the band headed out on tour (check out the first part of MCR’s interview here).
What about recording another album? It’s not going to be five years for the next album, is it?
Before we went to Canada, we were practicing playing the songs and I started playing this riff that’s really anthemic, really ballsy. Don just started playing along, and we looked at each other and said we’re going to have to wait a year for this to be heard by anyone, so let’s just remember it and not play it right now. Later that week we were at MTV Canada doing a sound check and I started playing that song, and everyone asked, “Are you doing that song tonight?” We said, no, no, no, it’s not even a song yet. So we made a demo and sent it to our new label and said, “This is the single on our next record.” Now I realize whatever songs I write, I have to hang on to them forever. When we did this record, I wrote probably eighty songs, and kept ten. Don wrote eight songs and we kept two.
So your new guitar player, Christy, is from Minneapolis? Is she living here in Detroit now? Is she liking it?
She’s at my apartment right now. The weather there is even worse… but they did have The Replacements, which she talks about all the time, she’s a huge Replacements fan. She’s great, Marty from SSM recommended her, because they knew her when they toured out there. Leann [the new bass player] was from Ghost City and The Sirens, Jim Diamond recommended her, but we didn’t know if she could sing. So she came and tried out— she sang in high school! She has a really strong voice.
Hopefully, now the backing vocals are the best they’ve ever sounded. On the record, they doubled my high falsetto going “c’mon, c’mon”- that’s me singing “C’mon, C’mon”, as women! I’m always there, at least doubled, and then the girls back that on them. Except for “Not That Social”, every song that you think is all girls is me doubled, with two girls. I don’t mind singing like a female— it gets the job done!
Could you see writing songs with these new people, like a foursome-type collaboration?
No… when I start writing songs, I’m not a good person. I do it by myself. It’s like you turn on switch, like on game day when a football player turns into a freak, when off the field he’s like a nice teddy bear.
What about a solo career in the future?
It’d be silly. I did this band called Jason and The Hounds Below a while ago. It was Roy Orbison type stuff. That’s my normal singing voice, but I can’t do that with loud guitars. If I was going to do something solo, it’d be something like that. I’d have to go backwards.
Brian Vander Ark [from The Verve Pipe] has been solo for a long time. The Verve Pipe are kind of similar to you guys in that Brian and the drummer Donny Brown have always been the heart of the band even though the lineup changes.
Well, we have another funny connection with The Verve Pipe. Jerry Harrison [from Talking Heads] produced Pawn Shoppe Heart but not really “C’mon, C’mon”, and also The Verve Pipe’s Villains but not their hit “The Freshmen”. The Verve Pipe wrote “The Freshmen” before they got signed. As I was told, the version you hear on the single is the original demo, not from the record. We finished the record with him and then I wrote “C’mon, C’mon”. It’s funny.
When I listen to the last record, Pawn Shoppe Heart, and I listen to The Verve Pipe’s Villains, there is something in the fabric of the sound that is similar.
I love Jerry Harrison. He’s great, but this new record didn’t make sense for it. I didn’t have any money, either. People are saying this record sounds way bigger than the last record. It’s like 1/20th of the price.
To the average ear, you can’t even tell that it was recorded at that price, or that it was recorded four years after Pawn Shoppe Heart.
There’s two songs that sound different, “Chancer” and “She’s Dead To Me”. Those were recorded at The Tempermill. The first session was in Connecticut, we walked away with “21st Birthday” and “Modern Saints”. That was in like 2006. Then we went to L.A. and did three songs. Then we went to Chicago and did “Only To Haunt You” and “I Don’t Wanna”, and then we did back to L.A. and did three songs, and in Detroit we did two. We did more songs, but those are the ones that made the record. We mixed it at The Tempermill with Paul Kolderie, who helped produce Radiohead’s The Bends and a bunch of other Radiohead stuff.
So the future of The Von Bondies – is it a little bit of a question?
Only if you buy this one. Seriously, it’s not about making money– enough people have to hear this for me to go through all this again. I’ll write the songs again, but I might just put out a 45 instead of a whole album.
My goal is for this record to sell x-amount. My goal six years ago was to headline a place like The Magic Stick, and it happened in a year. I wanted to go to Europe. We’ve done Big Day Out in Australia, we’ve done Japan. I need goals to keep my ADD in control.
Every record should be your last. You shouldn’t be writing your next record while you are still writing your current one. You should be using that– because anything could happen. And the best record should be the record you just did.
Sorry, We Already Have Our Winners
We have two pairs of tickets to the Von Bondies, Nico Vega, Lightning Love show at the Blind Pig in Ann Arbor this coming Satruday night (February 21st). Be the 8th and 9th person to email us using the MCR contact form and your name will be on the guest list.
There’s a lot of Von Bondies going around these days since they’ve hit pretty much every blog or publication you can name (which is most impressive since they are doing the same amount of press this time around without the backing of a major record label.) Most of the press says pretty much the same stuff, but I found this recent live, acoustic performance by the Von Bondies at Rolling Stone Magazine’s studios to be among the best.
Several years ago, when The Von Bondies scored a major label deal, it seemed like an auspicious kick-start to one of the city’s most talented bands. However, signing to a major in the midst of the sea change of the record industry caused the band to get bogged in A&R hell, and it was years before we heard from them again.
VB frontman Jason Stollsteimer recently talked with MCR about their happy new independent label home as well as their upcoming tour in support of Love, Hate, and Then There’s You, which kicks off Saturday, February 21st at Ann Arbor’s Blind Pig (check out MCR’s review of the new album Von Bondies Detroit Rock” href=”http://www.motorcityrocks.com/2009/02/album-review-love-hate-von-bondies.htm”>here.)
When you look at Lack Of Communication from the earlier days, there’s definitely a rawer sound than your newer material. When I first heard you, I thought it was very dangerous-sounding.
We didn’t know how to play! It was Jim Diamond– he produced that, and we just recorded it live. We had three days of studio time. Like the song “Nite Train”, nobody really notices, but the bass goes deeper and deeper out of tune.
At that time, I didn’t own a Stooges record. I wasn’t really a rock fan at all. I grew up listening to Pavement, Archers of Loaf, The Make-Up. I like music that’s not guitar-based, which is messed up because we’re a guitar based-band. I grew up listening to D.C. stuff, stuff that’s not about the energy. When you don’t know how to play your instrument at first– like The Stooges– it’s about pure energy.
If you can’t come up with good harmony you have to be able to play hard and fast– get your two minute song done, don’t make anyone bored. There’s no reason to play more than half an hour in your first four years. I was recently at a house party and this great new Detroit band Lightning Love played for 15 minutes and everybody booed because they didn’t play longer. That’s a good sign.
So you wound up opening for The Stooges for their reunion show–
For me it was different because I still didn’t have any of the records. I knew who Iggy Pop is, I knew the Asheton brothers. It was weird. When they started playing, security came out and you couldn’t move around backstage. So on the right hand side was all of the Von Bondies. On the left hand side was Iggy’s girlfriend, who is this bodybuilder woman who was holding her dog, and then me. I got stuck, and I couldn’t get back to my friends. So I’m sitting there with this woman I don’t know who could beat me up, and she had to go to the bathroom, so she hands me this tiny little Tinkerbell dog, and right at that moment they played “I Wanna Be Your Dog”!
How’d you get hooked up with that gig?
We were requested. It was good, but when people go to see something like a reunion, they don’t care about the opening band. If right now, Coldplay asked us to open for them, I’d do one show. I’m not going to tour with them because that’d be depressing. To do a tour with a big band is expensive; the big bands fly from show to show and you have to do 20-hour drives a day. We never tried to break into the mainstream audience. We were trying to get to the 1,200-seater level and stay there. And then we did, and then we took a break because we got stuck in a record label that we couldn’t get out of.
What happened with that?
We didn’t get dropped: we walked away. One guy at Sire– who no longer works there– would not release our record. It took us two and a half years to get him to say, “it’s not emo enough, and that’s why”. We gave them “Pale Bride” and all the singles exactly the way they are, and he said “I don’t hear any singles.” The reason I’m at a typewriter [on the cover] is because they forced me to work with two songwriters and I freaked out and didn’t write anything for a year.
Seymour Stein [who signed the band] didn’t know we were being held back. The other guy, he had no intention of releasing us because he knew that if we got signed with another label and did well, he’d get fired. They asked us to be with them again, but I said no. I want to be on a label where I can be on a record cover with a gun to the back of my head and not have to put a sticker over the gun.
You guys kind of formed on the edge of the record label era. Now bands have a lot more creative control, granted they don’t drive around in Ferraris. I think in the long run this will be better for musicians.
We had the last deal over like, a hundred grand at Warner Bros. The way it was in the late Nineties, there’s no chance for a band to develop. Nowadays there’s chance for the band to develop. But, it’s up to us to find a practice space. We just went to New York for three days to do a press run and I paid for it. We went to Toronto to play MTV Canada and I had to pay to get there. The record label just picks the singles.
The music video for new single “Pale Bride” is pretty cool. Where was that shot?
The live shots are in my friend’s welding shop. You know how it’s kind of dusty-looking? While we were shooting the video one of the guys who was working the camera went behind us and would sweep up metal shavings. So, we were breathing metal the whole time. I was coughing for a week! When I go through a metal detector, it’s going to go off. It was shot by Anthony Garth, who also did our video for “It Came From Japan”. It was a budget of two grand for that video, and it’s already on MTV2 and Fuse. Nowadays you can’t spend too much money on it because MTV just has reality television.
Videos on YouTube are big, though. Look at what the Electric Six did for the last couple albums, they were just making videos in their backyard.
It’s a funny example. Electric Six has so many people at their shows. We sold 200,000 records, but I don’t think 200,000 people saw us on tour. With Electric Six, their last record sold like a few thousand, but they get like a thousand people a show. It’s the opposite!
There were certain bands that you could tell could relate to the next level; that you could take this and make a product that you could sell. You guys were definitely one of them.
It may be because we were listening to more mainstream music when we were kids. I like Radiohead. I have no problem admitting that. I think the guy in Coldplay can sing like hell. I think Kelly Clarkston’s “Since U Been Gone” is a catchy song. I don’t think some bands can admit that. That can affect your ability to relate to the masses.
Butch Walker, who you worked with during the recording process for the new record, is a good example of a catchy songwriter.
I lived with him in Malibu right before his house burned down. He was leasing a house from Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. We recorded “Pale Bride” in the basement there. Right after I left it burned down in those dry fires they get out there. We were the last record recorded there, I guess.
I went to Butch with one song done and two songs that I had verses and choruses, but I was in a slump from the label. He said these two songs were done, we don’t even have to think about the verses and choruses, they just needed a bridge. I would start playing the main riff from a song and he’d come up with a keyboard part. He didn’t write anything.
Some people were saying that there was a lot of “ghostwriting” going on.
Don is the only “ghostwriter”, he wrote two songs. When I went in with one of the two songwriters [that Sire assigned], his studio was one acoustic guitar, a keyboard, a ProTools rig, and a microphone. No electric guitars, no amps, no drum set. I have nothing against him, but it just didn’t make any sense to me. I played him this ballad I had in parts, and he said, “Come back tomorrow and I’ll have it done.” I came back the next day and it was like, an amazing Sheryl Crow song. No one will ever hear that song. That would have been ghostwriting, but it will never see the light of day. It was almost ghostwriting, and it was against my will.
On the new record, I think you could almost have a radio hit with “Earthquake” if you didn’t swear on it!
That was Don. The only line he wrote was a swearing line, and I was like, “Don, I’ve never swore in a song!” Don swears. He swears like a filthy pirate. That song is going to be hard to fit with the rest of the set because it’s so poppy. I said to Don, if we’re going to do this poppy song, the lyrics have to be really fucked up, they have to be mean, they have to be angry.
What do you guys have planned for the future as far as the tour?
February through March is the US tour. We’re going to Europe in April. We’re doing SXSW again. We’re touring with Nico Vega, they’re kind of like a mix between Yeah Yeah Yeahs and this band called The Peels. A girl lead singer with a guitar player and a drummer. She wears like, a leotard on stage. They’re a really good band and she has a beautiful voice.
* Artwork By Leyland DeVito
After four long years, the Von Bondies are back with a crop of twelve new songs that manage to give a big middle finger to all of the band’s harsh critics, fair-weather friends, tone-deaf record executives and former lovers, while at the same time showing you exactly why they’re still one of best bands ever to come out of Detroit.
Now, I know what you’re going to say, “you’re just playing fodder to a bunch of hometown locals,” and though this maybe not be entirely false, I pose this simple question to you: have Jason Stollsteimer and his trusty drummer, Donny Blum, ever released a song that was less than stellar, and the answer is easily “no.”
Staying true to their 2003 release, , starts things off with the explosive Butch Walker-produced “This Is Our Perfect Crime” (which could have easily been the album’s first single), and then puts all the naysayers in their place with “Shut Your Mouth.” Marrying a gritty driving guitar under the choir, chanting chorus “can you say a good thing about us?/ Can you say a good thing, good thing,” the song has the intense angst that would drive a 90 lbs. weakling into bodybuilder only to kick the living shit out the guy who stole his milk money several years prior.
The album’s first single, “Pale Bride,” (which can be heard all over satellite radio these days) is nothing less then outstanding. Catchy riffs and hooks mix in the best from their ’05 hit single “C’Mon C’Mon” with a layer of complexity that leaves you chanting and marching to the song’s dark lyrical undertones.
The album takes a change of pace with the creepy blues of “Only To Hunt You,” lollipop coated “21st Birthday” and “She’s Dead To Me” which may be the album’s best addition to the Von Bondies‘ hallowed trademark: girl/boy back ‘n’ forth vocals. The song, “Chancer,” brings an element of surf rock to the band’s repertoire, while the happiness of “Accidents Will Happen” makes you wonder if the band recently time-traveled to the 1950′s when girls were known as “dames” or “broads.”
Clearly calling out one of the band’s real-life adversaries, “Earthquake” is drummer Don Blum’s first foray into song writing and the reason for Stollsteimer’s uncharacteristic foul language. But it’s the album’s final track, “Modern Saints,” that really pushes the band’s studio presence to it’s more epic potential.
Though it’s been a long time coming, fans of the band will surely be happy with , while newcomers will be kicking themselves in the head for not discovering the Von Bondies earlier (but then they wouldn’t be reading MCR anyways).
Featured Track:
“Pale Bride”
UPDATE: Due to the flood of emails we got today, MCR headquarters just received three more Von Bondie’s album/7 inch combos to giveaway!
Be the first, second and third reader to email MotorCityRocks.com with their full name and address using our contact form and win a copy of the Von Bondies latest album Love Hate And Then There Is You (which hits stores and the internet tomorrow – February 3, 2009). We’ll also throw in a limited edition 7inch Pale Bride single which includes the non-album B-side “Falling In Love.” (continental U.S. residents only)
With just 25 days left (February 3rd) until the release of their new album Love Hate And Then There’s You, Spin.com has posted an exclusive stream of the new “kick-ass” Von Bondies tune “This Is Our Perfect Crime.”
The Von Bondies upcoming album Love Hate And then There’s You is already up for pre-ordering on Amazon (too bad they can’t get the title right.).
Here’s the album cover artwork for the album Love Hate And The There’s You, which is set to hit the world on February 3, 2009 (Don’s got a big gun.)
Here’s the scoop on the forthcoming new Von Bondies album Love, Hate and Then There’s You, complete with tracklistings.
Is it just me our are Leann Banks and Christy Hunt looking outstandingly hot in their new band photo?
I’d post some photos from The Von Bondies‘ record-breaking Halloween show, but I left my camera in my car, and anyway the gal at The Mudlot has a better camera than me. If you didn’t go, you missed out on a new “Pale Bride” single on pretty translucent yellow vinyl, a song just as hit-worthy as “C’mon C’mon”. At the end of their set the band bemoaned their suffering at the hands of their previous label for not being “emo enough”. Let’s hope Majordomo handles them better, because from the sound of Friday’s show the new Von Bondies are ready to pick up where they left off.
The Von Bondies find a home for their album Love, Hate, and Then There’s You. Look for it at a music service/store near you on February 3, 2009
The Go will perform at this year’s first annual Traverse City Film Festival in support of the music they provided for the new documentary The Youngest Candidate. This festival is the brain child of Flint native Micheal Moore and will be attended by Madonna.
Jack White and Alicia keys have teamed up for the new James Bond Theme song “Another Way To Die.” Jack White, wrote, produced and plays drums on the track which will be released sometime in October 28th before the November 7th release of Quantum of Solace.
Finally, Lost Boys: The Tribe is head straight for DVD so the chance of hearing that new Von Bondies song on the big screen is zero. Guess the studio did not have much faith in this flick or Haim’s big comeback.
Kid Rock goes number 1 in UK for the first time; but NME is reporting that Kid Rock has been ordered to take anger management classes after an early morning brawl in a Georgia Waffle House.
This weekend there are count em, 4 CD release parties in the Metro Area. Deep Cutz looks at one of them, The Displays.
Metromix has a Q&A this week with Walls of Jericho.
Detour reviews Nomo’s Ghost Rock and even offers up a free listen – I’m telling you folks best album of the year.
The Von Bondies new track “Only To Haunt You” is on the The Lost Boys: The Tribe soundtrack. The Von Bondies share the album with modern rock heavyweights; The Hold Steady, Blind Melon, Eagles of Death Metal and Airbourne. AOL is currently stream the complete soundtrack for free.
