There are tonnes of excellent gigs for your ears this Halloween. Check the gig guide below for some suggestions, or just follow the cool kids and head down to The Reverence Hotel for a double banger of The Peep Tempel in one room and a legit Mariachi band playing in the other room. Plus Mexican foods all night! You can’t lose really!
San Francisco’s Dead To Me announced via Twitter they’re getting back together with original member Jack Dalrymple and the band will now be a give-piece. They’re going into the studio early next year to record the follow up to 2011’s Moscow Penny Ante.
Sleep have announced supports for their upcoming Australian tour. The sold-out Corner Hotel show will feature Horsehunter and Bonnie Mercer, while the newly on sale show will host Mammoth Mammoth and Hotel Wrecking City Traders.
Angels and Airwaves are going about the release of their new album a little differently. The Dream Walker will cop an international release on Tuesday December 9 and be primarily available online as well as a host of other multimedia offerings including comic books, animations and even a feature film.
Rancid dropped their new album Honor Is All We Know last week. They didn’t make the album available to any media prior to its release. Wonder if they managed to avoid a leak?
Bring Me The Horizon have also dropped a new song and it’s kinda’ breaking hearts. Their new track Drown got immediate rotation on triple j and upset a bunch of fans when they heard frontman Olli Sykes has truly abandoned his deathcore growl in preference for some melodic sing songs.
If you get your hands on just one album this month, track down the new one from Restorations. Due for release this week via Side One Dummy/Shock Records, LP3 is a stunning realisation of the shape of punk to come (okay, that’s a bit far, but it’s very, very good).
UK’s post-rock princes 65daysofstatic will return to Australia next year to play two shows at Northcote Social Club. It’ll be in support of their most recent release Wild Light. They’ll bring Tangled Thoughts Of Leaving with them when they hit NOCOSOCO on Sunday March 8 and Monday 9. Tickets are available now.
Sleater-Kinney have reunited and announced a new album. The much-adored, three-piece will rip out a new album and a big ol’ tour next year. It’ll be the band’s first release since The Woods in 2005. Sick.
Tyson Stevens, vocalist for the disbanded but once very popular hardcore band Scary Kids Scaring Kids has passed away at the brutal age of 29 years old. No official word yet on the cause of death but some rather salacious gossip sites are pointing the blame squarely at drugs. Toxicology reports are due in a couple of weeks. Devastating news nonetheless.
