Recent Articles

post thumbnail

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club at Webster Hall, 04.09.10

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club wrapped up its sold-out, two-night stand at New York’s venerable Webster Hall last night with guns blazing and new drummer Leah Shapiro in tow. Hey hey, my my.

10 Apr 2010 | 1 comment | More
post thumbnail

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: Better the Devil You Know

On the day in late winter that I catch up with Robert Levon Been of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club there are connection problems. He’s in a place, likely somewhere in California near the band’s home base, with bad reception. Somehow this seems like the perfect backdrop…

17 Mar 2010 | 2 comments | More
post thumbnail

‘BRMC: Live’ DVD Review

In April 2002 I journeyed from Tallahassee, Florida to see a Spiritualized concert in Atlanta. A little-known, but fast-rising group that had garnered quick comparisons to the Jesus and Mary Chain were opening. I left that night raving about Black Rebel Motorcycle Club versus J. Spaceman…

8 Dec 2009 | More
post thumbnail

BRMC to ‘Beat the Devil’s Tattoo’ in March 2010; Tour Announced

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club have just confirmed release dates and tour information for their upcoming fifth studio album, Beat the Devil’s Tattoo. Due out March 9th in the United States and Canada (March 8 UK/Europe/Japan/Australia et al; March 16 in Germany) Beat the Devil’s Tattoo was recorded in Philadelphia and Los Angeles…

30 Nov 2009 | 1 comment | More
post thumbnail

BRMC Confirm Tracklisting for Live DVD

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club has just confirmed the tracklisting and cover for their Live DVD, due out November 10 on Abstract Dragon/Vagrant. As reported last week, Live will consist of a two-hour concert DVD with cuts from the Los Angeles band’s albums…

14 Sep 2009 | More
post thumbnail

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club : Sentimentalist Magazine Interview

Here’s an excerpt from the BRMC feature that appears in Sentimentalist Magazine issue 25. For the full text, check out the back issue. Enjoy! Peter Hayes needs you to know something right now. He is not a grumpy man, and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club is not a grumpy band. It was never supposed to be [...]

15 Jun 2007 | More
post thumbnail

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Webster Hall, NYC 5.31.07 : Sentimentalist Magazine Review

  The true, exemplary “moment” of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club’s big, beautiful and bombastic return to New York came at the end of the show, just moments before the house lights rose, revealing the myriad but exquisite ways in which we all perspire and wither in extreme heat. Robert Levon Been had just given his [...]

31 May 2007 | 1 comment | More