By Brock Fetch When a band releases its first album after something big and terrible has happened, like the death of a band member, it’s inevitable and natural, if a little morbid, to want to comb through that album listening for clues to how that event informed the music. But the Death Set, whose...
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Dog Leather First up, the first new song in years from erstwhile Baltimore spazz-punk band the Death Set. And it’s probably the heaviest, most breaking-things track the band’s ever done—Johnny Siera stops shrieking just long enough for a weird mechanical sampled chorus to cut in, backed by a guitar that seems almost metal. Punishing...
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Sleigh Bells It’s pretty impressive, and FreeFest free tickets have been gone for a long time. We got late notice about this show so it’s not in today’s print edition, but Sleigh Bells performs Sunday, Sept. 26, at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. The show starts at 8 p.m. and tickets are $12....
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Brooklyn Vegan reports that Beau Velasco, one of the founding members of the Death Set, has passed away. No other details are available at this time, but the band’s MySpace page has this posted: “R.I.P. Our Dear Brother, We love you.”
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| Image by joshsisk.com In principle, the South by Southwest festival is as much a trade show as New York’s massive CMJ Music Marathon, which sort of made us throw up in our mouths a little last fall. The difference is that SXSW is cloaked in the best/biggest party any lover of music, Tex-Mex...
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