It was via an email from the band that the world was alerted to the fact that its favorite (well, certainly my favorite) NYC indie post-punksters and keepers of the flame of icy cool, Interpol, would be returning to the music scene with their first album since their 2004 beloved release Antics. What? There’s an album after Antics? Right, Our […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is a very old High Voltage post that never made it onto the old website. It was part of an educational humor series we started on Facebook. While the advice expressed should be taken to heart, we still hope you find the post amusing. This is all based on true incidents. The one thing that separates High […]

Photo Credit: April Bauer “It’s about being beat down. The challenges in our society…coming back and finding the strength to fight again but without becoming a monster in order to survive in a world full of monsters.” That’s how Jimmy Gnecco describes his latest creation. In 2013 a successful Pledge Music campaign resulted in the album Ballet The Boxer, 1 […]

Hey kids, it’s time for Arts & Crafts! No, this will not involve Play Dough or macaroni and glue- not unless bring your own. Arts & Crafts is a boutique independent record label based in Toronto and 10 years ago they launched a ‘tour package’: aka a touring bill made up exclusively of Arts & Crafts bands. The bands on that initial […]

When you think of the art of bass, what probably comes to mind is it being an inherently male-dominated position in band. But there have been a good number of players of the XX chromosome variety: from Kim Deal (the Pixies) to Melissa Auf der Maur (Smashing Pumpkins), Tina Weymouth (Tom Tom Club) and Gail Ann Dorsey (David Bowie) to […]

Radio check 1, 2, 3! What we have here is a Spring of 2013 segment for your recollection. This collaboration between High Voltage and Dirty Glitter with Brody Ramone on WGBU-FM every Thursday night at 8pm PST/11pm EST has yielded some pretty sweet musical fruit not the least of which comes from the three talents in this 8th edition of Dirty Glitter 2013 In Review. Dirty […]

Oh 2013, where have you gone? But gone she almost is so here I sit thinking about all the musical goodness that has passed us by. Let’s be honest: the last thing that anyone needs is yet ANOTHER fucking Best Of/Most Awesome Albums of 2013 list. I’m not into it. But what I am into is doing due diligence in […]