North Carolina indie rock veterans Archers of Loaf shared a mysterious new teaser that could hint at their first new music in 22 years.
On YouTube, the band posted a 40-second clip that features footage of Archers of Loaf performing on stage mixed with audio of simmering guitars that build in a way that suggest they might be part of the intro to a new song. Just before the clip ends, a light cymbal tap adds to the building tension right before the audio comes to a halt with a kick of feedback.
On YouTube, the band posted a 40-second clip that features footage of Archers of Loaf performing on stage mixed with audio of simmering guitars that build in a way that suggest they might be part of the intro to a new song. Just before the clip ends, a light cymbal tap adds to the building tension right before the audio comes to a halt with a kick of feedback.
- 11/25/2019
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Indie rock innovators Archers of Loaf have been pretty busy since ending their decade-plus hiatus last year. The Chapel Hill-based quartet will soon be dropping their first studio album in 12 years, and they've just announced a brief tour of major U.S. cities, including multiple nights in NYC, Boston and their homestate of North Carolina. Archers of Loaf will also be playing the Noise Pop Festival in Sf at the end of the month, and at the expansive Primavera Sound Festival in Barcelona this summer. That amazing lineup also includes Bjork, Wilco, The Cure, Death Cab For Cutie, A$AP Rocky, Beach House, Melvins,...
- 2/2/2012
- by Dave Lewis
- Hitfix
The Afghan Whigs will play their first show in 13 years when the Greg Dulli-led band reunites for All Tomorrow’s Parties “I’ll Be Your Mirror” festival at London’s Alexandra Palace on May 27. The revered Cincinnati band are taking the slot that had been held by Guided By Voices, who cancelled because they broke up and have cancelled all 2012 (and we presume beyond that) bookings. Other performers during the May 25-27 festival, curated by Mogwai and Atp, include Slayer, Sleep, Mudhoney, Yuck, the Melvins, and a reunited Codeine. Newly added are The Archers of Loaf and Chavez, who reformed last...
- 12/7/2011
- Hitfix
In 1993, San Francisco music obsessive Kevin Arnold scheduled a concert at the now defunct Kennel Club on Divisadero Street. The show, which he dubbed "Noise Pop," featured four bands and was headlined by a group called Bitchcraft.
While Bitchcraft is (probably) no more, that unassuming little concert has since blossomed into a massive, multi-venue sonic celebration that completely takes over the San Francisco music scene for one glorious week every spring.
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This year, the festival is celebrating its 20th anniversary and, in a nod to its history, is offering an impressive lineup packed with old-school indie rock royalty. The biggest names playing this year's festival are three bands ready to rock you like its 1998--don't worry, that's meant in the best way possible--Built to Spill, Archers of Loaf and Imperial Teen.
Archers of Loaf and Imperial Teen have both played the festival before, in 1997 and 1999 respectively.
While Bitchcraft is (probably) no more, that unassuming little concert has since blossomed into a massive, multi-venue sonic celebration that completely takes over the San Francisco music scene for one glorious week every spring.
(Scroll Down For Photos)
This year, the festival is celebrating its 20th anniversary and, in a nod to its history, is offering an impressive lineup packed with old-school indie rock royalty. The biggest names playing this year's festival are three bands ready to rock you like its 1998--don't worry, that's meant in the best way possible--Built to Spill, Archers of Loaf and Imperial Teen.
Archers of Loaf and Imperial Teen have both played the festival before, in 1997 and 1999 respectively.
- 12/7/2011
- by Aaron Sankin
- Huffington Post
With all the (justified) excitement over the Archers Of Loaf reunion tour, it’d be a shame to forget that Archers frontman Eric Bachmann has been making outstanding music since that band broke up, primarily with his makeshift outfit Crooked Fingers. Breaks In The Armor, Crooked Fingers’ sixth LP, even contains a song that sounds a little Archers-y: “Bad Blood” kicks off with a discordant guitar run that could easily be a leftover from Vee Vee before settling into what’s been Bachmann’s preferred musical mode for the past decade, mixing gruff, saloon-ready rock with a few dollops of ...
- 10/11/2011
- avclub.com
“There’s a chance it might get weird, yeah it’s a possibility.” That’s Eric Bachmann singing on the first song on the first side of Archers of Loaf’s first album, Icky Mettle. Nearly two decades after they were committed to tape, those lines have proved supremely prescient, neatly summing up the North Carolina indie band’s career—or lack thereof. With only a few singles under their collective belt, the quartet signed with Alias Records in 1994, then spent the ensuing five years working, writing and touring as hard as any of their peers. When they broke up in 1999, however, they had...
- 8/3/2011
- Pastemagazine.com
Archers Of Loaf followed the blueprint of a lot of early-’90s indie-rock bands: They were an eclectic group of music geeks, inspired equally by punk and art, releasing catchy, jagged singles and compilation tracks while gigging around the local circuit and trying to scrape together the money and material to record an album. But that first album—1993’s Icky Mettle—was unusually confident and tuneful. The opening song, “Web In Front,” fused Pavement’s literate, lo-fi stream-of-consciousness bent with Superchunk’s scruffy forcefulness, tossing out witty lines like “You’re not the one who let me down / but ...
- 8/2/2011
- avclub.com
There's been a quite a bit of 1990s relapse going on lately, whether it's been the threat of new albums from Blink-182 or Bush, or that Soundgarden reunion, or the fact that Primus and Stephen Malkmus have a fresh ones on the way and early Elliott Smith and Modest Mouse have been recently unearthed. And if you were an Archers of Loaf fan, then you must know already, but the band is back at it for the first time since 1998. They're on tour on and off through September -- mostly shows in the South where they're from, the East Coast...
- 7/13/2011
- Hitfix
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Aside from a convenient excuse for firing grills, filling pools in backyards and flinging crushed beer cans into the backyard, Memorial Day is a holiday meant for reflecting on heritage, or in considering that the present is often won through a sometimes very difficult past. Or at least that's the best explanation I've got for why Sirius Xmu--the satellite radio indie rock syndicate--is blasting only blocks of atavistic indie rock this weekend. "Old School," they call it. Instead of Yuck, you'll get Archers of Loaf and The Clean; instead of The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, maybe you'll get The Jesus and Mary Chain and My Bloody Valentine.
But if have neither satellite radio nor the need to hear bands you already love,...
Aside from a convenient excuse for firing grills, filling pools in backyards and flinging crushed beer cans into the backyard, Memorial Day is a holiday meant for reflecting on heritage, or in considering that the present is often won through a sometimes very difficult past. Or at least that's the best explanation I've got for why Sirius Xmu--the satellite radio indie rock syndicate--is blasting only blocks of atavistic indie rock this weekend. "Old School," they call it. Instead of Yuck, you'll get Archers of Loaf and The Clean; instead of The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, maybe you'll get The Jesus and Mary Chain and My Bloody Valentine.
But if have neither satellite radio nor the need to hear bands you already love,...
- 5/27/2011
- by Grayson Currin
- ifc.com
Archers of Loaf appear to be back in action after playing this past Saturday night—their first show in 13 years. The Chapel Hill rockers reunited to play an unannounced hometown show at the Cat’s Cradle in support of The Love Language. While no future plans have been made official just yet, rumors have it that the band may possibly be planning some more shows this summer. Check out last night’s setlist, along with footage from the reunion show below....
- 1/17/2011
- Pastemagazine.com
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