Red Fang David Sullivan El Club, Detroit, MI – December 9th, 2016 Interview by Mike Bax http://www.redfang.net twitter.com/RedFang http://www.facebook.com/redfangband
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Red Fang – El Club, Detroit – December 9th, 2016
Review and photos by Mike Bax Red Fang with support from Torche and Whores. A cool club that holds just under 300 patrons. A relatively easy drive. Sign me up. Red Fang, along with Torche and Whores are currently entering their last week of U.S. tour dates together – ending on December 17th with a hometown…
Carcass w Deafheaven & Inter Arma – Dallas Night Club, Kitchener November 24th, 2016
Review and photos by Mike Bax Praise the music gods for routing this tour through Kitchener! I was thinking exactly this thought as I watched two security guards prop themselves against the edge of the Dallas Night Club stage in a reverse push-up position, their legs butted up against the support rails of the security…
Nothing w Wrong – Lee’s Palace, Toronto – June 7th, 2016
Review and Photos by Mike Bax Bring the noise! Last night, twenty bucks got you four bands bringing an assortment of musical stylings and decibel levels spanning four hours of music at Lee’s Palace in Toronto. Relapse Records label mates (and road mates, this being their second run of dates together) Nothing and Wrong are…
Top Ten Albums of 2015 According to Photojournalist Mike Bax
Top Ten Albums of 2015 By Mike Bax Year by year, I take in a lot of music that spans multiple genres. I tend to be unaffected by hype, despite being bombarded by emails from publicists hyping music. I rely more on the input of my friends, my personal tastes in music, crowd-funding and an…
Windhand – Studio at Waiting Room, Buffalo, NY – October 22nd, 2015
Review and Photos by Mike Bax With one of the best releases of 2015 (Grief’s Infernal Flower, Relapse Records), Windhand set out on the road last week to support the album, taking Danava and Monolord along for the ride as their support. This evening’s show at the very intimate setting of the upper studio at…
Torche w Nothing & Wrong – Lee’s Palace, Toronto – March 21st, 2015
Review and Photos by Mike Bax An evening where wrong was so right, nothing was really something, and Torche blew the roof of the venue. For only twenty bucks. Saturday night was already promising to be something special with Relapse Records’ bands Torche and Nothing performing together. Even with their own signature sounds, there can…
Royal Thunder – Crooked Doors album review
Relapse Records (Release: 7 April 2015) Review by Mike Bax Lately, I’ve been thinking a fair bit about what defines a classic album. With the re-issues of the Zeppelin catalog currently upon us, Physical Graffiti being the most recent release, I’m replaying these albums and wondering what it must have been like to be taking…
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