TigerFlowers

If the folks at NFL Films had any guts, they'd license out a track from Tiger Flowers. The New York City noise mongers specialize in the kind of music that would fit perfectly with their slow-motion montages of violence and glory. If you dig bands like Jesus Lizard, Helmet and Botch, Tiger Flowers won't let you down...

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...

The Red Chord have been sidelined from a European tour with Rotten Sound and Aborted, due to this pain-in-the-ass volcano! But rather than complain and whine about the situation, the band booked a weekend of shows in the tour's stead. The band will play the main stage of the New England Metal and Hardcore Fest in Worcester, Mass...

The four men who make up Tiger Flowers are really busy these days. They've been tracking songs for their EP, playing a ton of shows -- like playing with Premonitions of War and the Red Chord on April 25 -- and to top it all off they have consuming day jobs...

"We live in Orlando, but the funny thing is that 60 percent of the people who move there are from here," Khann guitarist Jake Smith told the crowd at Lit Lounge. The Floridians embarked on a two week tour with New Yorkers Tiger Flowers and ended up in the Manhattan basement on April 19...

"We're on tour with the awesome Tiger Flowers. Make sure you stick around and watch them. They rip even harder than us," March of Echoes frontman Nicolai said Feb. 18 at The Charleston. Boy, he's not kidding. I've literally seen Tiger Flowers frontman Jesse Madre rip his own shirt off...

On Jan. 6 at Brooklyn, N.Y.'s Knitting Factory, the Binary Code didn't need time to set up their gear. It was already in use by the band before them, Tiger Flowers -- whose van broke down on the way to the show. Yet the Binary Code didn't give the audience a clue that they were starting their set...

On Dec. 21, while New York City's ground was still muddy with snow leftover from a weekend storm, Torchbearer, Radiation Blackbody, Rising Up Rising Down and My America played a show at Lit Lounge. "We're My America. Some of us are from Delaware...

The Atlas Moth hail from Chicago, but at this point in their budding career, they feel as at home in a van as they do on the streets of the Windy City. The psychedelic doomriders have criss-crossed the U.S. multiple times in the past few years, and this time around, they were hauling ass down those 99-odd miles of bad road alongside brothers-(and sister...

In 1926, Theodore 'Tiger' Flowers become America's first black middleweight champion. In 2010, this writer is hoping that New York's hardcore/metal scene's coolest unsigned secret band Tiger Flowers become champions of the world. Even though the band claims that the city can sometimes make that more difficult than one might think...