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Check This Band Out: Whale Fall
It’s been a while since I’ve brought a band for everyone to check out and I’m very sorry about that. But I think I’ve got an incredibly interesting group here that will challenge a fair bit of you. Allow me to introduce you to Whale Fall, a five piece instrumental post rock group based out of Los Angeles.
The band has released their sophomore full length album The Madrean late last year and it’s a rather stunning piece of music, one of those albums that takes you journey full of peaks and valleys. The album takes influences from artists such as Ennio Morricone, Mono, Explosions In The Sky, and similar. The group’s past projects have seen their music land on numerous soundtracks, including The X-Files, Kiss Of Death, Up In The Air, and more.
The best way I can describe them is if Russian Circles is too heavy for you and you find Death Cab For Cutie‘s vocals incessantly annoying, Whale Fall‘s The Madrean might very well be the perfect balance that you’ve been searching for.
Head below to stream the entirety of The Madrean, which you can purchase digitally via Bandcamp. That link also has the option to pre-order a deluxe double-gatefold vinyl, which will begin shipping towards the end of April/beginning of May.
Whale Fall online:
Official Website
Bandcamp
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Soundcloud
AMC has announced that The Vampire Lestat: One Night Only LIVE, the standing-room-only performance celebrating AMC’s premiere of its newly-released The Vampire Lestat at New York City’s iconic Beacon Theatre last month, will debut on streaming.
The Vampire Lestat: One Night Only LIVE begins streaming on AMC+ on August 23.
Ahead of its streaming premiere, fans can preview the concert event, featuring original songs from series composer Daniel Hart and performed by Sam Reid, in Hall H at Comic Con International on July 24.
Our own Daniel Kurland attended the special event, highlighting how electric the Immortal Vampire is on stage: “It’s clear in this season of television that Reid was born to be a rock star, but it’s surreal to see him effortlessly command the stage — and the audience — at every step of the concert. He recites Shakespeare monologues and bitches out Armand between songs, all while the audience screams in support. For the duration of this concert, Reid is Lestat, and he’s given thousands of fans a memory that’s as immortal as any vampire.”
Based on Anne Rice‘s The Vampire Chronicles book series, The Vampire Lestat is the rock and roll-centric third season of AMC’s “Interview with the Vampire” created by showrunner Rolin Jones.
The Vampire Lestat goes on an electric multi-city tour while being haunted by “muses” from his wild and rebellious past. As his band’s popularity and star power rises, so does Lestat’s influence over vampires and humans alike, leaving others to contend with Lestat’s power in the face of the Great Conversion, an unnatural surge in the vampire population.
Jacob Anderson, Assad Zaman, Eric Bogosian, Delainey Hayles and Jennifer Ehle star with Reid. Executive producers include Jones, Mark Johnson, Hannah Moscovitch, the late Anne Rice, and her son Christopher Rice.
The series finale airs this Sunday, July 19, on AMC and AMC+.