Here is a entry about Penance Soiree taken from Wikipedia. Penance Soiree was the second full-length album released by The Icarus Line. It was one of 2004’s most critically acclaimed releases, and it’s reputation has subsequently earned praise in various publications, including the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. Due to infighting […]

The following is an article that was printed in Kerrang June 30 2001. In it, Joe Cardamone set out the band’s manifesto, and what UK audiences could expect from The Icarus Line when the group invaded the UK a few days later.

Just one of the reasons as to why 2004 ruled… This article was printed in Kerrang January 10 2004.

Earlier last year (May 2009), Joe was kind enough to answer a few questions for the STS Forum. Here is the (cleaned up) complete interview and reprinted in full: seasoninhell: Is the album recorded? Yes. The record is tracked. All that remains is mixing and mastering which is taking place over the next couple weeks. […]

Here is info about The Icarus Line’s ‘Mono’ album taken from Wikipedia. Mono was the first album from The Icarus Line. It was originally released May 8, 2001 in the U.S. by Crank! Records on CD, and Buddyhead on LP. The album was recorded throughout two separate sessions in 2000. The first of these were […]

Drowned in Sound recently reviewed The Icarus Line’s new (forthcoming) EP and were less then impressed. Arguing that the mini-album lacked the judicious editing and urgency of its bigger brother, the reviewer stated that “keen editing is likely what kept these songs from that record in the first place, and yet that’s something unfortunately absent […]

Trebuchet Magazine recently posted an article on Giant Drag that was written by Joe Cardamone. There is also a mini interview of him. Read it here.

Another wiki reprinted here for posterity. This one is about The Icarus Line’s previous album – ‘Black Lives At The Golden Coast’. Black Lives at the Golden Coast is the third full length release from Los Angeles noise rock band The Icarus Line. “Black Lives” was also the second for major label V2 Records. Shortly […]

It’s Alvin Deguzman’s funeral today, which means that it would have been just over two weeks since he finally succumbed to the ravaging effects of his cancer battle. And truth be told, although I had known about his affliction from the disease, I had never once imagined that his condition would have devolved into becoming […]

The Icarus Line were heavily featured in Magnet Magazine recently. This may be due to the fact that the publication highly recommended All Things Under Heaven recently, and in any case, you can read Joe Cardamone’s guest editing contributions towards the publication below: FROM THE DESK OF THE ICARUS LINE: AMERICAN PRIMITIVE #1 FROM THE […]