Detroit Free Press — Sufjan Stevens: 7 p.m. Oct. 14. Royal Oak Music Theatre, $30. Sold out. Torche: with High on Fire and Kylesa, 7 p.m. Oct. 14. Majestic Theatre, $15. Alejandro Escovedo: with the Sensitive Boys, 8 p.m. Oct. 14. The Magic Bag, $20. more info

Altsounds — All due respect to Doctor Brooks, but if *Torche* were JUST a rock band, Daddy would be at the bar right now knocking back a couple of stiff ones instead of typing up all these words you're about to ignore. The thing with *Torche* is that when y... more info

Metal Injection — Sleep, another band I thought would never tour again, have announced a slew of new dates all over the US with a healthy batch of openers. The band, which features High on Fire's Matt Pike, will be playing 11 shows total on the Marijuanaut's... more info

Metal Injection — High on Fire are fucking road warriors, I tells ya. They seem to just live on the road. The band has just announced a new headlining tour that will take them all over the country with two fine openers: Torche and Kylesa. A good friend told me that he... more info

Metalsucks — Amazon’s MP3 store — my personal online music retailer of choice* — is having an August sale in which they’re selling 1,000 albums for only $5 each. And no longer is metal getting the shit end of the stick; 100 of the 1,000 albums are metal! ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — words by Kim Kelly, photos by Markus Shaffer Kim Kelly, no longer a Philadelphian, made the jump to the concrete jungle known as NYC in between her stints on tour with Zoroaster (check out her tour diary part 1 and... more info

Altsounds — Fresh off of a massive U.S. tour with *Coheed and Cambria,* *Torche* is again touring the States! (well a portion of them at least)... Difference is, this time they are touring in pre-support of a new CD/LP *Songs for Singles,* which BTW is not a... more info

Pitchfork - Tours — 07-17 West Palm Beach, FL - Respectable Street Cafe @07-28 Nashville, TN - Exit/In $07-29 Louisville, KY - Skull Alley &$07-30 Indianapolis, IN - Vollrath Tavern $07-31 Chicago, IL - Subterranean !08-01 Chicago, IL - Wicker Park Festival08-03 St. ... more info

Pitchfork — The legendary doom metal group Sleep broke up in 1997 after releasing a couple of stone classics (uh, no pun intended). Guitarist Matt Pike went on to lead High on Fire, and the rhythm section of Al Cisneros and Chris Hakius became the slow-creepi... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by BBG High On Fire at the Mohawk during SXSW (more by Samantha Marble) It hasn't been that long since High on Fire wrecked the Gramercy Theater, but the California band must be on the hunt for its quarterly NYC... more info