Massachusetts metallers Revocation have confirmed that they will be taking part in this year&aposs; Scion Rock Fest on June 2nd taking place in Tampa, Florida. The event kicks off at 4 PM and will be held at four venues in the area including: The Ritz Ybor, Crowbar, The Orpheum and Czar Bar. Revocation front man Dave Davidson spoke about playing this... Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com

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My friends and I had the best day yesterday at Fenway Park. It was filled with people wandering all over taking pictures, touching revered parts of the park and watching current Sox on the field and in the bull pen. All of us patiently waited in lines to see parts of Fenway usually off-limits, and [...]

Turn that frown upside down — Vince will be back on Monday! ‘Til then, here’s a list of all the fun things we did this week: We debuted the new Czar video. We spoke to Kelly Shaefer from Atheist and Jenks Miller from Horseback. Also, Steve Rennie and Ben Davis from Today I Caught the Plague [...]

Turn that frown upside down — Vince will be back on Monday! ‘Til then, here’s a list of all the fun things we did this week: We debuted the new Czar video. We spoke to Kelly Shaefer from Atheist and Jenks Miller from Horseback. Also, Steve Rennie and Ben Davis from Today I Caught the Plague [...]

With Czar&aposs; U.S. tour kicking off next week, MetalSucks presents the exclusive premiere of the video for "Family Crest," the first track off the Chicago band&aposs; latest album, "Vertical Mass Grave." Watch "Family Crest" at this location. MetalSucks describes Czar as "one of the best new bands in quite some time... They make challenging yet palatab... Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com

Hopefully Chicago trio Czar has been on your radar for some time now, but if not here’s your chance to get down with one of the best new bands in quite some time. I included their excellent full-length debut Vertical Mass Grave (fabulously recorded by Matt Talbott, guitarist/vocalist of Hum) on my year-end list for [...]

photo: Shelley (Cage and Aquarium) Chicago keyboards stoner rock trio Mutts have released a free live EP . Unplugged at Rockwood Music Hall in New York was recorded on March 10 and contains one new song that will end up on their new acoustic album Object Permanence . Tracks: Trust (from Pretty Pictures EP) Handcuffs (from We Float EP) Out of Tune (from upcoming LP Object Permanence) Blind Truth (from Pray for Rain) They are also releasing a new electric album later this year: Separation Anxiety . Both albums will be available on LP, CD and digital download. Live dates: 04/12 Chicago ...

After releasing their 2009 LP Crack the Skye – a dark ethereal collection of songs drawing upon medieval themes and containing a four-part epic "The Czar" – Atlanta sludge rockers Mastodon have dialed it back opting for more direct feel-good tunes on the follow-up release The Hunter Crack the Skye...

Chicago?s Czar will be embarking on a short U.S. tour in April, kicking off April 18th in Cleveland with Crowbar and Prong. Czar?s debut full-length, "Vertical Mass Grave" (reviewed here), was released in December, 2011. Featuring members of Acumen Nation and DJ? Acucrack, stalwarts of Chicago?s industrial and electronic scenes, Czar?s sound com... Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com

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Seeing Warren Ellis play live with Nick Cave's now-defunct garage-rock monstrosity Grinderman — at one gloriously manic point, Cave would throw Ellis to the ground in a moment of pure rock fury — was to see Rasputin hurled across the stage by the Czar himself. In recent years, Cave's closest musical collaborator and a part of the man's particular empire of Bad Seeds since 1995, Ellis was the power behind the Grinderman project, the ovoid loops from his violin or electric "Mandocaster" mandolin the cornerstone upon which the group built its Church of Middle-Aged Horniness. It's tough not ...

spruce \sproos\, verb: 1. To make neat or dapper (often followed by up). 2. To make oneself spruce (usually followed by up). 1. Trim in dress or appearance; neat; smart; dapper. Spruce has an unusual history. It literally meant "from Prussia" (or Pruce). It came to be associated with the tree which was brought by Prussian merchants to England. The sense of "to make dapper" came about from a type of coat, the spruce jerkin, that was made with leather from Prussia. Moon landing A moon landing is when two people's naked butts bump as they bend over. Two ...

Neelie Kroes, The European Union's Internet czar, has added her voice to resistance of the Stop Online Piracy Act, in an unusually open comment on U.S. legislation.

LA indie rock duo The Violet Lights take their Sex & Sound EP on the road. Joel Nass (vocals, guitar) and Amber Garvey (keyboards, vocals) have a weak spot for Britpop augmented with a West Coast feel. Live dates: 01/25 Jan Lesser Known Characters Plan B Bar, Portland, OR 01/26 King Cat Theater Aamani Lounge, Seattle, WA 01/27 Red Room, Boise, ID 01/28 Red Room, Boise, ID 02/01 Moe's Original Bar-B-Que, Englewood, CO 02/02 Lucky's, Manhattan, KS 02/03 Knickerbockers Bar and Grill, Lincoln, NE 02/04 Czar Bar, Kansas City, MO 02 ...