Crooked Fingers have mellowed considerably with age, as Eric Bachmann has cooled down from his Archers of Loaf days. The ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/media/crooked-fingers/our-new-favorite-video/61695/

With all the accolades and critical acclaim that came with the release of his 2010 record Harlem River Blues , such as taking home the Americana Music Award for Song Of The Year for the album’s title track, Justin Townes Earle  continued to battle the personal demons that come along with his substance abuse issues. Townes Earle’s issues led to a rather unfortunate and ugly incident after a gig and he postponed tour dates to re-enter rehab. Now that the singer-songwriter  is hopefully putting his struggles behind him, JTE will release his latest studio album -  Nothing’s Gonna Change ...

It’s an open secret in the world of indie rock that legendary North Carolina outfit Archers of Loaf are members of The Order of the Ancient Pumping Fist, a shadowy religion centered around the titular fist. All hail the fist! Pumping the fist is good! Crossing your arms is bad! Last year, the high priest of the fist told Archers of Loaf that the fist demanded a reunion tour. Fist, thy will be done! The tour happened and the fist was sated. But truly, the fist was sated only briefly. It needed more energy. So, Archers of Loaf are ...

Archers of Loaf @ Sasquatch 2011 (more by Josh Darr) After a staggered string of shows was revealed in California and New York, as well as a spot in Spain's Primavera Sound Festival, Archers of Loaf have officially announced a...

Indie rock innovators Archers of Loaf have been pretty busy since ending their decade-plus hiatus last year. They've just announced a brief tour of major U.S. cities, including multiple nights in NYC, Boston and their homestate of North Carolina. http://www.hitfix.com

Archers of Loaf are getting ready to reissue remastered versions of three of their albums -- Vee Vee  on Feb. 1 ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/news/archers-of-loaf-reveal-us-tour/61281/

The reunited band tours this spring.

Musicians may just want to skip this anecdote and go straight the download. In 2007, four dudes out of O.C./Long Beach calling themselves CoCo B’s unleashed an album of brash, hooky guitar-bass-drums indie-rock that earned deserving comparisons to the Replacements, Guided by Voices and Archers of Loaf. I was, and remain, crazy for “I Live [...]

Archers of Loaf at Webster Hall (more by Chris Gersbeck) Archers of Loaf, still reunited, have a handful of dates scheduled in 2012 so far. The seminal 90s band has a pair of West Coast dates: LA and San Francisco...

Consequence of Sound has the full deets… Today, the festival revealed the rest of its 2012 bill and new highlights include Refused, Rufus Wainwright, Beirut, Chavez, The Pop Group, Atlas Sound, Laura Marling, Sharon Van Etten, The Rapture, Wavves, Danny Brown, Black Lips, Lee Ranaldo, Hype Williams, Kings of Convenience, Archers of Loaf, Dirty Three, The Wedding Present (performing Seamonsters) Girls, Real Estate, The War on Drugs, Saint Etienne, Richard Hawley, Iceage, Japandroids, Thee Oh Sees, Death Grips, Trash Talk, Bleached, Friends, Dirty Beaches, Lower Dens, The Field, Field Music, and Obits. Visit our Festival Outlook to see the complete ...

Just about every comment I've read on the passing of 2011 boiled down to "good riddance". Not too shocking, since the internet was built for complaining after all (also - more than a few friends really were struggling), but I'm both surprised and very grateful to state that mine wasn't all that bad. I'd hazard to say it was actually pretty good, all things considered. After the personal hell that was my own 2010, things really had nowhere to go but up, and so up they went. Way up, at times. Mostly having to do with music ...

Smoke or Fire 's Joe McMahon has teamed up with Vancouver's Billy the Kid for a new project in which they cover 31 songs in 31 days. So far the duo have covered Bruce Springsteen , The Descendents , Billy Bragg , Dan Bern, Archers of Loaf , Neil Young , Jackson Browne, The Jam , The Replacements , and Maps. All of the covers can be found here .

Handshake Inc/Grindcore Karaoke 2011 Consider yourself fortunate if your into the sort of alternative/post-rock/garage rock of bands like Archers of Loaf and Drive Like Jehu. This EP is filled with that same sort of indie rock with a devil may care attitude. Post-hardcore, punk and garage rock are played with a serious sense of urgency making this 5-track affair both noisy and poetic. Music like this found a home on college radio stations back in the day when guitars could be loud and messy and the message was just as important as the fuzzed out wails coming ...

In retrospect it was a mistake to ask Eric Bachmann his favourite colour. He and his band have been stuck on the M5 all afternoon, and from the moment we meet, it’s clear that incremental boredom is yet to disperse. He fixes me with a steely, disdainful glare and leaves my ill-judged enquiry to prop up the tension. Ice ages pass. “Black,” he eventually replies, with as much disdain as can feasibly be fit into one syllable. Suddenly, the ice cracks and he breaks my gaze, grinning to himself. Eric Bachmann doesn’t like to give much away. * * * Archers ...

**NOTE** The items within the following lists are not ranked in order of importance or artistic value.  Instead, they are listed randomly, or in some cases, as recalled by memory.  While the difference between good art and mediocre drivel is easily discernible, it is the author's opinion that ranking actual art is a random, arbitrary, and highly unscientific process, therefore inappropriate for these purposes. Hopefully, the absence of numbered lists will not frighten or cause excessive discomfort so as to keep the reader from enjoying this post to the fullest.   Additionally, the reader is encouraged to post any omissions ...