Bullet For My Valentine, Converge and Korn also brave a soggy Donington Park    

Review: Converge at Download 2013

A few months ago, I wrote about the increasing influence of Mumford & Sons and how that band’s brand of bleeding-heart folk-rock represents the convergence of certain indie trends (howling Avett Brothers roots rock, bookish Decemberists folk-prog, humongous Arcade Fire stadium anthems, woodsy Fleet Foxes classic rock worship) ...

The four members of the scrape-rock supergroup Tomahawk — Mike Patton, Battles’ John Stanier, the Jesus Lizard’s Duane Denison, Melvins’ Trevor Dunn — are all virtuosic maulers of their respective instruments, and every so often, then all converge to make an unholy din. Oddfellows, their new albu...

Mighty Ohio blackened thrashers Skeletonwitch have announced that they're heading to Kurt Ballou's Godcity Studios in Massachusetts this April to record a new album!