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SUB POP USA: Bruce Pavitt Looks to Upend the Music Business Again With 8Stem

Bruce Pavitt with Experiencing Nirvana: Grunge in Europe, 1989

Bazillion Points author and Sub Pop Records co-founder Bruce Pavitt has been a constant presence in tech news lately, thanks to his audience-empowering remix app 8Stem. The free iOS and upcoming Android apps enable allows users to break down licensed music to core elements (the eight “stems”); rework those basic components; and then share the new versions online. Song creators get a piece of the action via royalty payments.

The fi...

Bloody Roots of the Misfits Legacy on SiriusXM

BLOODY ROOTS OF THE MISFITS
Week of January 28, 2017

Sat 1/28, 6PM ET
Sun 1/29, 1PM ET
Mon 1/30, 9AM ET
Tues 1/31, 4PM ET
Thurs 2/2, 9PM ET

This week, Bloody Roots plunges both hands deep into the gory vaults of this legendary New Jersey horror hardcore gang. Prepare for a ghoul’s night out with hits from hell by the Misfits, plus subsequent bands Samhain and Danzig. Crushing Misfits covers by Marduk, Hatebreed, Tribulation, Prong, Enforcer, and Metallica bear the stamp of the Misfits’s influ...

Bloody Roots of Boston Hardcore on SiriusXM

BLOODY ROOTS OF BOSTON HARDCORE
Week of January 21, 2017

Sat 1/21, 6PM ET
Sun 1/22, 1PM ET
Mon 1/23, 9AM ET
Tues 1/24, 4PM ET
Thurs 1/26, 9PM ET

Slap in your mouthpieces and strap on the brass knuckles, because this week we hitch a ride to Boston for a full-on historical beatdown courtesy of old-school hardcore killers DYS, SS Decontrol, Gang Green, Last Rights, Snapshot, Siege, plus more recent entries from one of the USA’s hardest and tightest music scenes including Converge, Blood for Bloo...

Bloody Roots of Syrian Metal on SiriusXM

BLOODY ROOTS OF SYRIAN METAL
Week of January 14, 2017

Sat 1/14, 6PM ET
Sun 1/15, 1PM ET
Mon 1/16, 9AM ET
Tues 1/17, 4PM ET
Thurs 1/19, 9PM ET

This week’s metal history lesson celebrates the passionate, dedicated, and massively brave metal bands of Syria. Blackspell, Laxsid, Netherion, Haunted Cellar, Anarchadia, Abidetherin, Theoria, and others present the viewpoints of metalheads raging against total adversity in an active war zone. We salute our brothers in metal halfway across the world an...

Bloody Roots Selects Standout 2016 Metal Debuts on SiriusXM

Bloody Roots SelectsStandout2016 Metal Debuts on SiriusXM
Week of January 7, 2017

Sat 1/7, 6PM ET
Sun 1/8, 1PM ET
Mon 1/9, 9AM ET
Tues 1/10, 4PM ET
Thurs 1/12, 9PM ET

This week’s very recent metal history lesson brings the new year an hour of some of the strongest, most original debut metal albums of 2016. Prepare for a stunning display oftechnical wizardry, bleak darkness, and operatic drama—sometimes all at once—with freshly minted metal by Shed the Skin, Altarage, Chthe’list, Sumerlands, K...

Sat. 1/7, L.A.: Mike Watt Closing Party for WE GOT POWER! Photo Show

This Saturday, January 7, at 5 p.m., esteemed Los Angeles vinyl-only music outlet Pop Obscure Records winds up its extended photo exhibit featuring scores of images from We Got Power!: Hardcore Punk Scenes from 1980s Southern California by David Markey and Jordan Schwartz.

The event offers a free performance by leading San Pedro punk luminary (and We Got Power! cohort) Mike Watt of the Minutemen/Firehose/Stooges, backed by his current outfit the Secondmen.Also on the bill is Big Pig, a vibran...

Happy New Year! Bloody Roots of Metal Drinking Songs on SiriusXM

BLOODY ROOTS OF METAL DRINKING SONGS
Week of Dec. 31, 2016

Sat 12/31, 6PM ET
Sun 1/1, 1PM ET
Mon 1/2, 9AM ET
Tues 1/3, 4PM ET
Thurs 1/5, 9PM ET

Each week we look at another country, a new theme, crucial key moments… and tonight we crack open a fresh case of metal drinking songs. Salute the season with glasses high, toasting and singing along with off-balance anthems by Wehrmacht, Motorhead, Bulldozer, Tom Angelripper, Tankard, Gehennah, Municipal Waste, Darkthrone, Murphy’s Law, Final Conflic...

Tonight & New Year’s Eve OFF!/Melvins/Redd Kross Gigs Boast Steven McDonald Triple Threat

Sugar-rush punk-whelped power popsters Redd Kross,sludge gods the Melvins, and the murderers’ row hardcore collective Off! already sharedmuch in common.Each has West Coastroots, each takes uniquely skewed approaches to bigrock traditions, and, of course, they all kick up utterly monstrous punk-metal freak stormsthat can only be their own. Collectively, the bands have released hundreds of records, and played thousands of shows. This week, they’re doing it together—and with the same bass playe...

Bloody Roots of 2016 Metal Instrumentals on SiriusXM

BLOODY ROOTS OF 2016 METAL INSTRUMENTALS
Week of Dec. 24, 2016

Sat 12/24, 6PM ET
Sun 12/25, 1PM ET
Mon 12/26, 9AM ET
Tues 12/27, 4PM ET
Thurs 12/29, 9PM ET

Host Ian Christe (“Sound of the Beast”) sews tight another calendar year of metal history lessons with a not-so-silent night of bombastic and impressive metal instrumentals produced during 2016. Set aside the screams, the lyrical abominations, and the shoutalongs toinstead savor an hour of instrumental mastery and musical revelations from...

The Swedish Death Metal Band of the Week is SPORTLOV

This week, from among the hundreds of bands cataloged in the band appendix of Daniel Ekeroth’s SWEDISH DEATH METAL, one tightly packed assault sails from the crowd into our faces like a nuclear snowball: SPORTLOV. This valient Uppsala-born death/crust supergroup dominates all things grim and frostbitten—their name means “winter holidays”—and their weapons are skis, skates, and brutalsnobullaras seen above.

Inspired in 2000 to send up self-seriousness and “cold, Nordic”clichés in black metal,...