Thrice - Anthology

     Your Throwback Thursday song this week is, in a sense, more about throwing back (and a little forward...all will be clear in a second) to a band rather than to a song. You see, while the album Major/Minor from which your song today hails is only about four years old now, the band that wrote the song and album has doesn't much since, besides a few festivals and other isolated shows.

     But with the recent news that Thrice will indeed be releasing new material sometime next year, there's no better time than now to throw it back the measly couple of years to 2011's Major/Minor for the rocking late-album track "Anthology". This particular cut definitely does sound more at home among Thrice's more recent stuff than its older stuff (like classic The Artist in the Ambulance, for example) but if you're a Thrice fan, you've been following the band's evolution all along and are probably already on board with this one. I for one can't wait to hear what they put together next.
(Bonus, Jonas: the video linked above is a swell live performance from a Red Bull Studio Session the guys did back in 2011 -- enjoy!)

Thrice - Stare at the Sun

     Happy Friday the 13th everybody. I've got yet another cool acoustic version of an already cool song to chase away your superstitious blues, so throw that salt over your left shoulder and watch out for that black cat walking under that ladder made of broken mirrors.

     I've been a fan of Thrice for more than ten years, following their musical journey as its taken them from punk-metal to post-hardcore to something that now draws from a number of genres and influences all at once. I'm certainly not one of those who dislikes the directions taken by the band's newer material, but at the same time I definitely have a soft spot for the old stuff.

     So when I decided that I was going to do a week of acoustic-themed posts, Thrice's acoustic rendition of "Stare at the Sun", originally from their 2003 classic The Artist in The Ambulance but heard here on their 2005 mini-retrospective If We Could Only See Us Now, was basically a no-brainer inclusion. Take a song that's always resonated with me and pretty it up a bunch? Yes please.

Sunday: Thrice - The Artist in The Ambulance

     While we're on the subject of band's I'd wish would get back together who apparently are, Thrice's Dustin Kensrue has recently revealed in an online Q&A (I believe it was an AMA over on Reddit) that the band may be back touring or working on new material  sooner rather than later.

     It's not concrete news of a new album by any stretch, but I'll take what I can get. The prospect of new Thrice, or a chance to see Thrice on tour again, would be most welcome propositions even if they're not imminently on the horizon. For the time being, however, we'll just have to jam something classic and say a prayer to the music gods that things move forward post haste.

     Crank the title track from 2003's The Artist in The Ambulance to get yourself in the mood for the possible return of Thrice.

Thrice - Cold Cash and Colder Hearts

     Winter's icy onslaught continued today, so tonight you're getting another appropriately themed (or titled, at least) song for the weather.

     Your song this evening is Thrice's "Cold Cash and Colder Hearts" from 2003's The Artist in The Ambulance. I know, I know, it's a socio-political song that doesn't actually have anything to do with ice or snow, but it's a great song from Thrice's heavier heyday, and it's got a vaguely wintry-sounding title. What more do you want?

Song of the (Yester)Day: Thrice - Under a Killing Moon

     I know it's technically late, but it's also really early in the morning and therefore not quite Saturday yet, so conceptually I'm going to imagine I finished this last night like I intended to and go from there...

Song of the Day: Thrice - Deadbolt

     Just like yesterday, today's band isn't new at all, and unlike yesterday, I would say Thrice are actually pretty big in the world of heavier music, with eight solid albums and a live double CD and DVD (with another live double album forthcoming this fall) under their belts. However, if you've only heard their more recent stuff, you could be forgiven for not knowing that Thrice can be pretty fucking heavy. They started off during the days of emo as a punky, hardcore-type band with strong sense of melody that was tempered by a bit of metal.