Review & Photos: Title Fight’s cult comes to Slim’s
Title Fight (Photo Credit: Nikolas Soelter) Touring in support of their new LP, Hyperview, Pennsylvania's Title Fight brought their unique brand of culty alt rock to San Francisco on Friday night. By 9:30, the venue was filled out and Texas thrash-metal band Power Trip were halfway through their set. For me, it took seeing this band live to truly appreciate them. Ex-Trash Talk drummer Sam Bosson was filling in on drum duty, and his wild drumming fit in perfectly with the primal howls echoing over the metallic guitars. I've seen a lot of bands playing aggressive music urge the audience to get [...]
Title Fight playing Slim’s next month in support of third LP, Hyperview
On the heels of their third LP, Hyperview, Title Fight announced a national tour that brings them to San Francisco on March 13. Hyperview is another chapter in Title Fights evolving sound, which has seen the band move from pop-punk to ’90s alt rock, and now to shimmering shoegaze and post-punk. The move feels totally natural though, as every album gave dark hints at their genre expanding intentions. The new album sees them shedding most of the gravelly vocals that gave their records such emotional ferocity and instead showcasing beautifully sung melodies over chorused out riffs and pop songs. "Rose of [...]
Review & Photos: Iceage, Merchandise @ Rickshaw Stop, 3/25/13
Photos by Nicole L. Browner The Danish post-punk group Iceage pounded their way through an intense set on Monday night at the Rickshaw Stop. Draped in a blue darkness occasionally blasted with white light from a photographer's camera flash, the teenage foursome played with a counterintuitively sloppy focus — like a band nuked on caffeine and alcohol — as they stumbled and swayed along with the grimy, tangled low-end that defines their 2013 LP You're Nothing. If you didn't already know the songs, you weren't going to learn them here: Iceage outright avoided playing the album's catchiest song, "Wounded Hearts," [...]
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