Our resident photo guru Jason Bergman has posted some pictures from the last NYC gig for Modern Life Is War. I didn’t go but I heard some mixed reviews about the show. How was it? Regardless, you can check out the action over at Jason’s flickr page.
Today seems to be a day for quitting, so we hate to bring you more news that will ruin your day. Beloved hardcore act Modern Life is War have announced that they will be calling it in after a nearly six year run. The group posted a lengthy MySpace bulletin explaining their decision, which you can check out after the jump. MLIW plan on doing a short tour, so make sure to catch it before they end up reuniting and playing huge arenas.
Modern Life Is War made a short video documenting the making of their upcoming record, Midnight In America, out August 21 on their new label Equal Vision. The video is pretty much exactly how I thought it was going to be; more shots of what they do while they are wasting time on the road and less informational scenes about what inspired their songs and recording with J. Robbins.
The new tracks that can be heard in the video hint that they’re taking the new album in a much different direction than Witness (Deathwish). The songs are much slower and even include a cover of the folk song “Stagger Lee.”
In the past two years MLIW have toured almost nonstop. The beauty of their previous releases was that the lyrics focused on the day to day life of living in a slow town in middle America. By being away from their muse I wonder where they will draw inspiration from for this new album. Speaking of touring, the band is currently on tour with He Is Legend, Maylene & The Sons of Disaster, and Paulson. Click read more for dates and the video of the making of their new CD.
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Modern Life Is War tour. They tour A-L-O-T. Tuesday marked (correct me if I’m wrong here) the fourth time in the last year the band has played in NYC. Even though they tend to stick with their standard set list, the band still inspires me to throw my shit to the side, run up front, and scream along. But on this go around, three new songs were sprinkled in.
Now for the new new songs. “Stagger Lee” gives a hardcore spin on the folk classic. “The Motorcycle Boy Reigns” is a slower song reminiscent of their song “Hair Raising Accounts of Restless Ghosts” off Witness. And lastly, “Midnight In America” is a fast pace song with rock n roll influences, similar to a Cloak/Dagger song. These songs will most likely appear on their still-untitled third full-length and Equal Vision debut, which is due on September 4th. Witness is most certainly a tough act to follow but the new tunes sounded just as crushing and uncompromising. In fact, I thought they sounded even more epic. It was an interesting little peek and it made me look forward to the new album even more.
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