Posted by Bram Teitelman on May 13, 2013
[youtube]http://youtu.be/2UvDp1oRmjY[/youtube] It’s been exactly one month since Deftones bassist Chi Cheng passed away and about 4 1/2 years after a car accident left him in a coma. And while the band has continued forward, recruiting Quicksand’s Sergio Vega as bassist and releasing two albums, the band decided to scrap Eros, the album they’d been working on […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on August 23, 2012
The last time Quicksand performed on TV before last night was in 1995, on the Jon Stewart show, a late night show that came four years before The Daily Show. So it was pretty exciting to see the reunited post-hardcore band tear it up last night on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. The band played […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on June 11, 2012
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtQ0GTwhs5o[/youtube] Influential hardcore/post hardcore label Revelation Records celebrated their 25th Anniversary this past weekend with a four-day anniversary show at the Glass House in Pomona, CA. A special guest on the fourth day had been highly rumored to be Quicksand, a rumor that turned out to be true. The band’s first release was a four […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on April 12, 2010
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=detVOuK8v-U&feature=player_embedded#[/youtube] “Rise Up,” the new single from Cypress Hill, isn’t reinventing the wheel. In fact, it’s a straight up rap rock song. Written by Rage Against The Machine’s Tom Morello, it pretty much sounds like a lost Rage song with B. Real and Sen Dig spitting rhymes instead of Zach de la Rocha. That said, […]