October 21, 2010 - The Austin, TX-based The Black Angels will embark on a six-week co-headlining tour of North America with Canadian outfit Black Mountain.
September 13, 2010 - Sept. 14 is Super Tuesday for the music industry, the day prior to the fourth quarter that overflows with high-profile releases. So many, in fact, it's possible next week's Nielsen Soundscan Top 10 will have six or seven rookie titles.
August 22, 2008 - The outdoor festival returned to its roots Friday night (8/22), with San Francisco's Outside Lands Fest bringing rock music back to Golden Gate Park after more than 40 years of absence.
March 9, 2008 - The members of Vancouver's Black Mountain are graduate students at the School of Classic Rock. The band's self-titled 2005 debut displays an easy-to-spot palette of influences, ranging from Black Sabbath to Blue Cheer, but what makes frontman Stephen McBean and company special is the way the band--replete with howling, distantly spooky vocals and a thick, rather gnomish sense of mournful darkness--creates something wholly new and unexpected out of what is essentially a thoroughly played out genre. The group recently dropped its follow-up full-length, "In the Future."
August 11, 2005 - Black Mountain seems out of place with everything else going on in 2005. The band's excellent, self-titled debut sounds nothing like such new wave New Wavers as Franz Ferdinand, Hot Hot Heat, The Bravery or, really, just about any other new act these days.
The Austin, TX-based The Black Angels will embark on a six-week co-headlining tour of North America with Canadian outfit Black Mountain.
Sept. 14 is Super Tuesday for the music industry, the day prior to the fourth quarter that overflows with high-profile releases. So many, in fact, it's possible next week's Nielsen Soundscan Top 10 will have six or seven rookie titles. 
Black Mountain seems out of place with everything else going on in 2005. The band's excellent, self-titled debut sounds nothing like such new wave New Wavers as Franz Ferdinand, Hot Hot Heat, The Bravery or, really, just about any other new act these days.
