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Oblivion Access Festival Announces Full 2023 Music Lineup
by Michael Major - February 28, 2023 Austin’s Oblivion Access Festival, the independent festival founded and produced by Dusty Brooks and Dorian Domi, revealed the full festival lineup featuring newly added headliners Faust, who are celebrating 50+ years as a band, Duster, who will perform for the first time ever in Texas, TR/ST, Clipp...
Street Sects Reemerge with Explosive New Single 'X Amount'
by Michael Major - September 06, 2022 The group — featuring vocalist Leo Ashline and multi-instrumentalist Shaun Ringsmuth— have unleashed a new single that will annihilate listeners’ senses. Written shortly after the band ended their year-long hiatus, “X Amount” is an attempt to translate some of the energy of Street Sects live show in...
Street Sects to Head Out on Tour
by Kaitlin Milligan - January 09, 2020 Street Sects embrace the ethos of punk and the experimental zeal of the industrial scene and craft a rawboned, bareknuckled sound anchored in deft lyrical storytelling. The band's pointed, dirge-ridden social commentary serial album 'Gentrification' is in its fourth installment; Gentrification IV: ...
Street Sects Complete GENTRIFICATION III With BOXCARS
by Tori Hartshorn - July 31, 2019 Returning to the Gentrification series that slingshot them into the industrial lexicon, Street Sects will release a new two-song EP via The Flenser on August 2. Titled Gentrification III: Death and Displacement, the couplet of tracks finds the Austin, TX, returning to the unhinged sound of their ear...
Street Sects Announces European Tour
by Kaitlin Milligan - July 24, 2019 Since the release of their sophomore LP The Kicking Mule last year, Austin, TX industrial punk duo Street Sects have stayed consistently busy; be it touring the world with Daughters, Uniform, Author & Punisher, Lingua Ignota, 3Teeth, Dälek and more, playing high profile festivals such as Roadburn (N...
Uniform and The Body Announce Collaborative LP on Sacred Bones
by Kaitlin Milligan - July 01, 2019 The monolithic collaboration between industrial-noise post-everything bands Uniformand The Body continues with a second entry, Everything That Dies Someday Comes Back. Comprised of an amalgam of abrasive influence that spans Swans-y dirge and purge, Whitehouse's clenched-jaw noise, middle-period Min...
Street Sects Announces GENTRIFICATION III: DEATH AND DISPLACEMENT
by Tori Hartshorn - June 11, 2019 As the third installment in their Gentrification series, which started in 2014, Street Sects will release a new two-song EP on August 2nd via The Flenser. Titled Gentrification III: Death and Displacement, the A-side track “Goodbye Recidivist Road” is streaming today via Revolver Magazine....
Elizabeth Colour Wheel Unveils New Album Details, Releases Single
by Tori Hartshorn - January 14, 2019 After announcing their partnership with San Francisco-based label The Flenser, genre-defying five-piece Elizabeth Colour Wheel are offering more clues to what they have in store for the world in 2019. The experimental five-piece have announced the imminent release of their first full-length, Nocebo,...
Elizabeth Colour Wheel Partners with The Flenser and Announces East Coast Tour Dates
by Kaitlin Milligan - December 28, 2018 Boston, MA five-piece Elizabeth Colour Wheel have announced a partnership with San Francisco-based label The Flenser. In Spring 2019, the band will release their debut full-length which was recorded earlier this year and was mixed/mastered by Seth Manchester at Machines With Magnets (The Body, Stre...
Street Sects Revel And Roar With New Single STILL BETWEEN LOVERS
by Tori Hartshorn - September 12, 2018 Continuing to stoke the fiery anticipation around their sophomore album, industrial duo Street Sects have unleashed a crime-and-punishment deluge “Still Between Lovers.” Driven by metallic clatter and vocalist Leo Ashline's neo-noir narrative, the track serves as the bridge between the calamity of t...
Industrial/Punk Duo Street Sects Announce New LP, Premiere Single
by Tori Hartshorn - August 20, 2018 As urgent and tense as a hunting knife pressed to your quickening jugular, post-punk duo Street Sects' forthcoming sophomore LP The Kicking Mule presents ten intimate vignettes about self-sabotage, visiting themes like battling mental illness, addiction, alienation and more. Though primarily known a...
Austin-Based Duo STREET SECTS Announce North American Tour
by Macon Prickett - February 07, 2018 The first of many exciting announcements for the Austin, Texas duo, Street Sects have revealed their plans to kick off 2018 on the road with transgressive industrial group 3TEETH and punk-hop twosome Ho99o9. The North American tour spans late March into April and marks Street Sects' first tour since...
Street Sects Premiere Maniacal 'Blacken the Other Eye' Music Video
by Caryn Robbins - November 01, 2017 Mere weeks following the release of their groundbreaking 12-inch Rat Jacket, Street Sects have released a stirring video for their track Blacken The Other Eye. Gravely and cryptic, the video was directed by Todd Pendu and reflects the hardcore industrial duo's relentlessly brackish worldview....
Street Sects' 'Rat Jacket' Now Streaming In Full
by Caryn Robbins - September 29, 2017 With the sonic whiplash of 2016's End Position still looming, noisecore duo Street Sects have returned with a new 12-inch. Rat Jacket, a 4-song 12inch, thrashes and roils through a din of brisk samples and melodic turbulence....
Street Sects Premiere Seven-Minute Standout Track 'In Prison, At Least I Had You'
by Caryn Robbins - September 05, 2017 Austin, TX duo Street Sects have returned with a forward-thinking and uncompromising 12-inch record titled Rat Jacket. The 4-song release follows 2016's critically acclaimed LP End Position, but if that album was a bullet to the head, then Rat Jacket is a knife in the back.... |