Within days of Alternative Press including Censored Colors on its list of 10 Essential Albums of 2008, the members of Portugal. The Man were trekking through the Boston snow to start work on their fourth release in four years, The Satanic Satanist. As John Baldwin Gourley, named the year's Best Vocalist in that same issue of AP, explains the pace at which his band has turned out any number of the decade's more inspired moments, "Honestly, I think we should be pu...

New Again - For Taking Back Sunday it's more than an album title, it's a declaration. "We kicked around a bunch of different titles, but that one always remained the top of the list, and that's because it really does feel like a new band," vocalist Adam Lazzara says. Taking Back Sunday is not turning their collective back on what is already a storied past, not when their resume boasts three gold albums, two of which hit the top five...

Award-winning, Glendale, AZ heavy music powerhouse JOB FOR A COWBOY blend stunning musicianship and cutting edge song craft to create the absolute embodiment of modern day extreme music. The band's hotly-anticipated sophomore album Ruination will see a July, 2009 worldwide release date via Metal Blade Records.In the two short years since the release of the band's full length debut Genesis, JOB FOR A COWBOY (JFAC) has progressed from "the band with the different name"...