Articles by Keith Carman

Von Drats

Dratsylvania

PUBLISHED Mar 24, 2010

While initial glances at Toronto, ON's Von Drats might yield expectations for yet another 'billy band full of slapping, popping and all thi...

Gangcharger

Metal Sun

PUBLISHED Mar 24, 2010

One of the first bands in the past decade to wave their Sonic Youth influences so proudly one might mistake this duo for the NYC-based art...

Propagandhi Leave Smallman Records As Label Gets Set to Fold

PUBLISHED Mar 22, 2010

Once again, Winnipeg's most notorious politically inclined punk rockers Propagandhi have lost their label. In a foreboding message posted...

Unholy Grave

Grind Killers

PUBLISHED Mar 19, 2010

One of grindcore's most prodigious, if often overlooked, bands, Japan's Unholy Grave (trivia: their name was wisely taken from Death's "Bey...

Psycho

The Grind Years

PUBLISHED Mar 19, 2010

Although The Grind Years compiles only a minute segment of work (1990 to 1994) that Boston-based gurus Psycho have been responsible for sin...

Dead Meadow

Three Kings

PUBLISHED Mar 19, 2010

The aural companion to their concert film of the same name, Three Kings finds Washington, DC psychedelic hard rockers Dead Meadow performin...

Armoured Saint

La Razza

PUBLISHED Mar 16, 2010

Their sixth studio album in almost 30 years, and first since 2000's pseudo-enjoyable Revelation, La Razza marks another return from America...

Warner and KKR Reportedly Setting Sights on EMI Takeover

PUBLISHED Mar 15, 2010

Even those struggling to avoid music news can't have missed hearing about how major label EMI has faced some serious struggles over the pas...