Bold, Brutal, and Biting

INTERVIEW WITH FIGHT BITEHaving just tried out Fight Bite’s excellent debut LP Emerald Eyes, we here at Cannibal Cheerleader wondered what the duo of Jeff and Leanne, the wunderkinds behind the band, thought of their creation. So we recently conducted an interview with the group, part of which is printed below:

CC: What is Fight Bite [...]

Feeding the Fire

NEW CRUISERWEIGHT VIDEO

To celebrate the release of Cruiserweight’s newest release Cruiserweight Rocks the Moon (available now on iTunes) here’s a live video of their single “Balboa” from the EP. Check it out below people, shot and edited by yours truly, and be sure and purchase this Cruiserweight EP (only 2.99? you know I got mine!).

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Halfway There

Hey Cannibal Cheerleader faithful, we’re halfway through the year so I figured it was about time to announce the albums, acts, songs, and shows that I feel are the best of the year SO FAR. Below are some tentative lists with the entries in no particular order and I’m not going to comment on these [...]

Stormfront Coming In

LADYTRON @ STUBB’SOur favorite electro-rockers Ladytron spun some tunes at Stubb’s this past Friday and our lovely correspondent Kat L. took some sweet photos. Word on the street is the show (predictably) ruled so here’s Ladytron’s new single to celebrate!Ladytron – “Ghosts”********************************************************************NEW BAND CHEER – THE GASLIGHT ANTHEMHeir to the throne of working-class punk rock [...]

To The Moon

NEW MY MORNING JACKET VIDEOSHey all, sorry about the late update (computer troubles again!) but today will knock your socks off. We not only have the new official music video for My Morning Jacket’s first single off of Evil Urges “I’m Amazed”, but we have the premiere of the Evil Urges EPK video on which [...]

Blonde on Blonde

CRYSTAL CASTLES UPDATEOh Crystal Castles, it’s been too long! How are you? How’s the new record? Why, you say you’ve got a new single?Why, it’s album-standout and one of my favorite tracks of the year “Courtship Dating”! Awesome! And you’ve just released your self-titled debut in the UK? Rad! And you have a new video?
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Blogging Today From Under the Covers

AN APOLOGY FROM CHAN OF CAT POWERIt’s true, today I am blogging to you faithful Cheerleader followers from under my covers. I’m feeling a little down in the dumps as well as under the weather (heck throw in ‘feelin low’ while you’re at it) so I figured I’d do a little update on my favorite [...]

Thrash TNT!

DYNAMITE BOY/CRUISERWEIGHT ROCKED THE HOUSEThe phrase ‘this band could be your life’ is weighty to say the least. To have a band you could so devote yourself to as to become a permanent fan of all their work is almost impossible in this modern age, with consumers so inundated with a million bands, each sounding [...]

The Cowboy, Scarlett, and Me

WEEZER REVEAL ALBUM COVER/TRACKLISTAccording to this Pitchfork article, that picture up there featuring a mustaschioed Rivers Cuomo might just be the official cover of Weezer’s Red Album. Seeing as all the press photos we’ve been seeing of our favorite antithetical rock frontman lately have had him sporting a strange hairdo (see this soccer photo), it’s [...]

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