HelmsAlee

"Can we get a volunteer to start our drum machine?" Justin Foley asked Friday night at Brooklyn, N.Y.'s Union Pool. Unlike many other humans I've come across, Foley and bassist Thad Calabrese don't have to try to hard to be funny. Since their enlistment in the Hydra Head army in 2003, they've put out some of the most unconventional press releases this writer has ever seen...

Seattle noise rockers Helms Alee -- a band of "friends that write and play music together" -- will hit the road this November with Russian Circles and Young Widows. The three-piece, which features former Harkonen and These Arms Are Snakes member Ben Verellen, will be debuting some new songs from their unfinished sophomore album on the nine-date trek...