SeaOfBones

"Thank you all for sticking around to check us out," the very modest Cable bassist and vocalist Randy Larsen said to the Fontana's crowd on Dec. 3 in New York City. "Thank you for showing up," a fan fired back at the band. For an act that's broken up probably over six times, people are just happy that they still exist and make music...

The night before Thanksgiving is a terrible time to book a show -- everyone's out of town or is already parked on their sofa or in the kitchen getting ready for the next day's feast. Unfortunately, the show must always go on, and if you're a touring band with the distinct lack of fortune to land in a major city right before a national holiday, well, time to suck it up...

When Gwynbleidd played at Union Pool, they left the wintry night chill outside. There were just too many drunk and still-full-from-Thanksgiving headbangers excited to see the progressive and folky death metallers for the place to be cold. But once the intro sample trickled in the small Union Pool, the room felt more like a cabin in the middle of nowhere than a block away from the Lorimer stop on t