Articles by Jason Schreurs

Crowbar's Kirk Windstein Talks New Beginnings and 'Symmetry in Black'

PUBLISHED May 13, 2014

With the upcoming release of their 10th album, 25 years into their career, legendary New Orleans sludge metal band Crowbar took the same ap...

Young Widows

Easy Pain

PUBLISHED May 13, 2014

After the depressive, relatively minimalist sounds on their previous album, 2011's In and Out of Youth and Lightness, Louisville dark-rock...

Young Widows Explain the Destructive Nature of 'Easy Pain'

PUBLISHED May 8, 2014

Easy Pain, the fourth album by Louisville, KY heavy atmospheric rockers Young Widows might give a jolt to those expecting something a littl...

Floor

Unleashing the Bomb String Again

PUBLISHED Apr 29, 2014

The story of Floor is legendary. Band get together in Miami, FL in the early '90s, release one actual full-length in 2002, break up in 2003...

The Menzingers

Riffs, Rough and Raw

PUBLISHED Apr 25, 2014

One listen to the Menzingers's new album, Rented World, and it's very clear that this is a band whose members were raised in the '90s. The...

Cult Leader

Forging Ahead

PUBLISHED Apr 22, 2014

As Cult Leader, the new band made up of three-quarters of Salt Lake City bleak-grinders Gaza, ready the release of their debut EP, Nothing...

Floor Talk Their Return to the Fray with 'Oblation'

PUBLISHED Apr 21, 2014

Sometimes all it takes is, well, the release of an extensive, career-spanning box set to reignite a band. Miami emo-doomsters Floor —...

The Menzingers

Rented World

PUBLISHED Apr 18, 2014

Every band has that album where they switch it up, try a few new things, add some more production values, and maybe bust out some big, dumb...