Like so many young adults in small towns, the members of You Say Party! We Say Die! had little else to do with their time other than ride around in their bike gang and rock out in their parents basement when the weather was uncooperative. Well, thank god for rainy days because without them, the New Wave-inspired band may have never formed. YSP!WSD! is currently enjoying great success as they have ...

Whether it's in English or Chinese, rock 'n roll is rock 'n roll, and the Beijing-based quartet P.K. 14 are at the forefront of China's underground rock circuit. After an inaugural visit last fall to the Mecca of their post-punk and New-Wave muses -- New York City -- the band is at it again with their shredding guitar riffs, unmerciful bass bombardment, and discontented lyrics....

Vicmod Records – a new experimental electronic music label and digital distribution service – has released its first three albums: Richard Lainhart – The Wave Sounding Sea. An amazing early Moog recording from the seventies. First time release. Cray – Water Computing. Cray’s second computer music album. Think nanobots talking after humans have left the planet. Don Has...

Before we listen to Usher’s new single OMG let’s take a moment to recognize that nothing less than the fate of text-related singles hangs in the balance. LOL Smiley Face was a travesty, but Ludacris recently revived the genre with his superb Sexting, so the way I see it, if OMG’s a hit it’ll inspire a new wave of text-related tracks, and if it flops, that’s pretty muc...

Austin metal band Iron Age formed after the dissolution of several well-respected hardcore bands. With nods to metal gods like Corrosion of Conformity, Pantera, and Crog-Mags, the group creates a maelstrom of dark and raw thrash/metal that will make your ears bleed (in a good way). Their 2009 album 'The Sleeping Eye' cemented the band's status as one of the next wave of hardcore act...

At this year's SXSW, Spinner is proud to present four pop-up shows featuring some of today's hottest acts. The first show will feature Broken Bells, the project by DJ Danger Mouse and James Mercer of the Shins, and be held on March 17. In addition to the duo, Spinner's shows will feature Bay Area rockers Rogue Wave, British soul/pop songstress V V Brown and New York post-hardcore ou...

New Yorkers breeze into Blighty With their board well waxed and feet firmly in position, Dum Dum Girls are sitting, well, surfing pretty at the crest of the wave of hype that is lo-fi. read more

The advertising industry's latest crowdsourcing wheeze took off in Vancouver Devo – remember them? Jocko Homo. Whip It? No? Amusing US new wave outfit with plant pots on their heads talking in vaguely eugenicist terms about mankind as spud people? No? To be fair, they haven't released an album since 1990. So how did they end up opening the Winter Olympics? Crowdsourcing. This is ad...

An eight-minute video clip featuring behind-the-scenes footage from WHITECHAPEL's recent Australian tour as part of the Soundwave Festival can be viewed below.

Side-of-the-stage-view video footage of ANTHRAX performing a cover of the PUBLIC ENEMY classic "Bring The Noise" on February 20, 2010 at the Brisbane, Australia stop of the Soundwave Festival can be seen below.