thursday

When Touche Amore played Santos Party House in New York City on May 6, they couldn't stop talking about how much they appreciated that Converge took them out on the road. "The guy in the Sepultura shirt said I'm awesome! That rules!" frontman Jeremy Bolm exclaimed while grabbing and shaking the guy in the Sepultura T-shirt...

Alesana -- 'The Emptiness' (Fearless): Androgynous, concept-driven metalcore that's ripe for every single date of Warped Tour. That's 'The Emptiness' in a nutshell. High-pitched, sometimes femme vocals live alongside some guttural growls, layered harmonies and metal riffage...

The Deftones are holding benefit shows at the Avalon in Los Angeles to help raise money for the rising medical costs for bassist Chi Cheng, who remains languishing in a coma after a car accident last year. Dillinger Escape Plan vocalist Greg Puciato stepped on stage with the 'Tones at last night's show to perform 'Passenger,' a brooding tune from 2000's epic 'The White Pony...

March 23 is going to be an awesome day. That's the day the Dillinger Escape Plan will release their fourth album, 'Option Paralysis.' The disc will be issued through the band's new Season of Mist imprint, Party Smasher Inc. The album was recorded in California with producer Steve Evetts (Every Time I Die, Glassjaw), and will be, perhaps, one of the most talked about releases of 2010...

According to a variety of news sources -- reports Noisecreep was able to independently verify through a number of sources -- seminal Washington, D.C. post-hardcore outfit Jawbox are reuniting, just in time for the Nov. 23 reissue of the band's 1994 major label debut 'For Your Own Special Sweetheart...

Politically-charged melodic hardcore band Rise Against, originally scheduled to headline the Buzz Bake Sale this December, have pulled out of the show due to disagreement with their stage sponsors: the U.S. Army Recruiting Department. The annual concert put on by West Palm Beach, Fla...

In what Alternative Press has dubbed "the best Festivus present anyone could receive," New Jersey grind heroes Dillinger Escape Plan will be hitting the road for two weeks in December with fellow Jerseyans Thursday. Supporting the quick stint are Florida indie rockers Fake Problems...

At Bowery Ballroom Sunday night, Thursday frontman Geoff Rickly admitted to the crowd that "the last tour we did was not as much fun as this one." Perhaps that was because the Taste of Chaos tour consisted of mostly 'tough guy' type of metal bands...

The Fall of Troy boys are nostalgic old souls. When Noisecreep asked drummer Andrew Forsman who are his favorite three-piece bands, Forsman replied with Nirvana and Jimi Hendrix with Mitch Mitchell and Noel Redding. "I listen to what I listened to in high school," Forsman said...

Leave it to Thursday to veer from the norm and the expected. For the re-release of this year's 'Common Existence,' the band chose to do a digital-only deluxe edition instead of the standard, ho-hum, yawn-inducing re-issue with extra tracks and artwork -- something that's essentially an expanded edition that forces the fan to purchase the same album twice...