Boris

For the second year in a row, Boris are giving us a massive Fall “classic album” tour!!  Last year we saw the Japanese experimental metal legends doing Heavy Rocks (2002), alongside Melvins, who were doing 1991’s Bullhead, featuring Boris’ namesake.  And this year the Tokyo band are taking it...

“I came from the late ‘90s hardcore scene, and the uncool-est thing you could do is release an album of songs under your own name.  Being a singer/songwriter was extremely uncool before the indie thing,” Dan Boeckner (Wolf Parade, Handsome Furs, Divine Fits, Operators) tells me during a recent...

This Friday, August 18th, Japanese experimental legends Boris will celebrate Heavy Rocks turning legal drinking age with a reissue of the 2002 album courtesy of Third Man Records.  Heavy Rocks (2002) , never-before-released on...

Legendary Japanese experimental rockers Boris are currently celebrating their 30th anniversary, and today they released their third Heavy Rocks LP and second full-length of the year, Heavy Rocks (2022).  Last week the band dropped their third single and video from the album (“My name is blank”) and later this...

Last year British-born, Berlin-based post-punk-leaning, avant-garde singer/songwriter Anika (real name Annika Henderson) released Change, her second solo album and first since 2010, on Sacred Bones.  In September we chatted about the album (which was inspired in equal parts by ‘90s alternative music, the current state of politics, the pandemic,...