Blood Bath Recap Pt. 5

PREY FOR SLEEP – BLOOD BATH

Pounding out the riffs with a stampede of fury, Austin’s own Prey For Sleep definitely woke up fans midway through the Cannibal Cheerleader Blood Bath SXSW day party last week. Featuring songs from their debut LP as well as their extremely limited Forever Dies Today EP, PFS shook the walls [...]

The Beast Approaches

CANNIBAL CHEERLEADER BLOOD BATH SET TIMESThat’s right folks, the Cannibal Cheerleader Blood Bath, SXSW Day Party is approaching quickly and if you’re not going to be at the Peacock, 515 Pedernales in Austin, Texas this Wednesday March 18th, 12-6pm, you can rest assured you will be torn apart mercilessly. Above you’ll see our sign for [...]

Blood Bath

CANNIBAL CHEERLEADER BLOOD BATH – SXSW PARTY

That’s right Cannibal Cheerleader faithful, this year we’ll be having our first ever South By Southwest 2009 Blood Bath/Day Party! Featuring some of our favorite bands from around the world including Rolo Tomassi, the Action Design, Prey for Sleep, Treasure Mammal, Agent Ribbons, and Vermillion Lies! 

The party takes place [...]

Friction and Forever

EXCLUSIVE NEW PREY FOR SLEEP TRACK

Oh Prey For Sleep, where have you been? Busy it would seem as the winter months have brought lineup changes to the Austin metal group but no less intensity as evidenced in this new track “Forever Dies Today”, an ultra-exclusive new track from a lost EP. Featuring an increase in [...]

Spin Me/Best Of Pt. 1

SPINNERETTE DEBUT NEW VIDEO, RELEASE EP

It’s finally here Cannibal Cheerleaders, the new Spinnerette  Ghetto Love EP has arrived and none too soon for our ears. It seems that ex-Distiller Brody Dalle has been reincarnated as a nightmarish punk burlesque dancer, wrapped in layers of electronic decadence while still maintaining the poignant and fierce lyricism on [...]

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 [...]

Moving Along

THAO NGUYEN GETS DOWN IN AUSTIN
Swinging in for a free in-store performance at End of an Ear Records a little over an hour later than expected, Thao Nguyen and her backing backing band the Get Down Stay Down nonetheless managed to tear through a set of bluesy indie rock that kept the audience rapt with [...]

Oh What Lovely Heat

WHIRLWIND HEAT DEBUT NEW ALBUM

If you’ve never heard of these Beck-referencing, groove-tastic, spazalicious, leave-it-all-on-the-dancefloor rockers, you owe it to yourself to check out Whirlwind Heat. The first time I saw these guys was summer of 2006 on their tour with another Cannibal Cheerleader favorite Be Your Own Pet. Clearly these two acts had developed a [...]

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 [...]

The Best Things In Life

TRYOUTS – NAS & DJ LANTERN’S THE NIGGER TAPE

Ladies and gentlemen: The Nigger Tape. Just when it seemed like Nas was going to be backing down from the title of his forthcoming now self-titled album (which was at one point infamously going to be called Nigger), the rapper releases a mixtape with DJ Green [...]

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