Miami band Torche have always been like heavy metal’s cotton candy, and their recent fifth album, July’s Admission (Relapse), is their most delicious yet. Since rising from the ashes of stoner-rock group Floor in 2004, Torche have specialized in what they call “thunder pop”—a hard-hitting, wall-of-sound brand of sludgy doom metal that’s topped off with […]
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The second Chicago Doomed and Stoned Festival gets lit with three heavyweight headliners
For its second year, the first with new partners Empire Productions, the two-day Chicago Doomed and Stoned Festival has scored some big names: on Friday the headliners are Florida heavy legends Torche, warming up for the July arrival of their new album, Admission; on Saturday, they’re occult-rock primogenitors Coven, who formed in Chicago in the […]
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Do-Division Street Fest: Disappears, Torche, Ariel Pink, the Gaslamp Killer, and more
This year’s Do-Division Street Fest lineup includes Disappears, Torche, Ariel Pink, Jeff the Brotherhood, and the Gaslamp Killer.
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12 O’Clock Track: Kvelertak’s thick black ‘n’ roll on “Bruane Brenn”
Today’s 12 O’Clock Track is Kvelertak’s “Bruane Brenn,” off their upcoming albume Meir
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12 O’Clock Track: Cave In, “Sing My Loves”
Cave In came back from the dead last year, and their 2011 full-length has at least one great song on it
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This week on the B Side
A middle finger to pop sexism, a blasphemous metal fest, Pitchfork rumors, and more
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Early Warnings Roundup
This week’s Early Warnings include the Cars, Curren$y, Peter Gabriel, the Green Music Fest, Jerry Lee Lewis, My Brightest Diamond, the Neon Marshmallow Festival, Rasputina, Torche, TSOL, Wavves, and Wild Flag.
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Wicker Park Fest
The stellar lineup includes Cap’n Jazz, Baroness, Torche, Mission of Burma, Plants and Animals, Fun, Local H, and the Gaslamp Killer.
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Early Warnings Roundup
This week’s Early Warnings include Boris, Cynic, DePedro, Langhorne Slim, Modern English, Nappy Roots, Rasputina, Sweet Apple, We Are Scientists, Wicker Park Fest, and more.
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This Week in the Reader’s Music Section
Barnstormers, bootleggers, what’s up with Def Leppard, and much more.
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The List: May 13-19, 2010
Critics’ Choices and other notable concerts: Gaslamp Killer, Julieta Venegas, Sonoi, Torche, Plants and Animals, Steve Dawson, Georgia Anne Muldrow, and more
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You Know What They Say About Assuming
Critic Stewart Voegtlin takes a wrongheaded swipe at Pelican in the Village Voice.