Category: Alternative/Rock/Metal

Peter Murphy @ Irving Plaza

It’s hard for me to describe with words my astonishment to see Peter Murphy perform live in NYC, combined with the thrill of the unknown. It was my very first time, even though I’ve been a Bauhaus fan since I…

Plastic Yellow Band

South Carolina’s “new classic rock” group Plastic Yellow Band is modeled after John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s Plastic Ono Band – it’s composed of a songwriter/musician Gerry Jennings and various musicians who join him to produce his original music. Plastic…

Video interview with Danish Band Förtress for Flowers In A Gun!

Seriously, this interview with Danish metalheads Förtress came out great! May be you’ve heard of the band from Vice’s Noisey, who also featured them, but we find about this kickass band through the page of snowboarder Halldór Helgason. Förtress’ music…

Urban Grey New Album Teaser

One of the best, by my humble opinion, Bulgarian metal bands Urban Grey just released a teaser to their long-expected new album “Age of Awareness”. See and hear it here: \m/

The Insurance Salesmen

Since, “Death, Taxes, and Other Favorites” Cleveland’s, The Insurance Salesmen have been lobbying for their fair share of exposure in the city, gracing bills with A-List bands and plying their wares. The Insurance Salesmen are refreshingly genuine, shocking meek, and…

Michael Cullen – Love Transmitter

For the fans of Nick Cave and Leonard Cohen I recommend to check Australian singer/songwriter Michael Cullen, who just re-issued and re-mastered his classic record “Love Transmitter”. The album was released for the first time in 2002 and produced by…

The Library Is On Fire’s new song leaked!

The brand new song of Brooklyn-based indie rockers The Library Is On Fire just leaked through Flowers In A Gun! “Labyrinths of February” is a standout track from The Library is On Fire’s new album “Halcyon & Surrounding Areas”, which…

Kid Tested @ Fort Useless

It was really great to go and see Kid Tested – the alternative rock band fronted by Flowers In A Gun’s contributor Shawn Mishak – play at Fort Useless. I’ve never heard or been at this venue before and I…

The Clover Club

The Band Of The Week contest continues it’s journey around the world and this weeks stops down South, right in the heart of Tennessee – Nashville. The Clover Club are a pretty newly formed rock & roll band with blues…