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Stereogum — Band To Watch IAN SWEET’s masterful debut album Shapeshifter comes out today, and to mark the occasion the band has shared a new video for “All Skaters Go To Heaven.” It was directed by Andrew Gibson, and starts with the band playing against an... more info

Stereogum — One of the best moments in music this year comes at the end of “Cactus Couch,” the centerpiece of Band To Watch IAN SWEET’s debut album, Shapeshifter. The song crawls to a syrupy slow after four minutes of clamoring. One of the band members goo... more info

Stereogum — “You don’t let someone you love feel afraid,” Jilian Medford sings on the opening track of IAN SWEET’s debut full-length, Shapeshifter. Falling in love is terrifying in and of itself; realizing you’ve lost too much of your individuality in ... more info

Roadrunner - Blabbermouth — "Bottom of a Bottle" became a major party hit in 2003 just as nu-metal was phasing out. SMILE EMPTY SOUL's ballsy "do it for the drugs" mantra threw enough shock factor into a song that would've otherwise rang as a blatant LINKIN PARK knockoff to pro... more info

Nialler9 — Body & Soul are putting on The Shapeshifter’s Ball, a special “evening of Immortal Proportions, Dark Veils & Twisted Tales in association with the Bram Stoker Festival” in IMMA on Saturday October 25th. The “intimate, slightly twisted, Gothi... more info

Gorilla vs. Bear — Shapeshifter Lee Bannon drops the visuals for new track “Value 10“, taken from the prolific... Read more » more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Located in the always-growing Gowanus/Park Slope area, about a .4 mile walk from Union Hall, Shapeshifter Lab (18 Whitwell Place) is a new 4200 square foot performance space...."this newly renovated performance space hosts the world's most innovative... more info

Here Comes The Flood — photo: Leila Batmanghelidj Post-rock never made into the mainstream, but it had a huge influence on alternative music in the earlu nineties. Washington DC band Last Tide keep the wall-to-wall music alive on their EP The Broken Places. In the five tr... more info

Chorus.fm — Our friends in *Shining Through (http://www.absolutepunk.net/shiningthrough)* have posted their new EP, Shapeshifter, for free download on their AP.net Profile (http://www.absolutepunk.net/shiningthrough). Fans of *_Weatherbox_*, *_Criteria_*, and *... more info