Lollipop Magazine

Swans Announce 2024 US Tour Dates – News

December 20, 2023

Swans have today announced a United States tour for 2024. The band SOLD OUT all but two dates of their 2023 North American tour.

Swans announce The Beggar, and summer tour dates – News

April 12, 2023

Swans announce details of their 16th studio album, The Beggar, to be released June 23. In addition, they announce dates for a fall North American tour.

Human Impact (Unsane, Cop Shoot Cop, Swans) Release Debut Album – News

February 28, 2020

Human Impact – the NYC Outfit featuring members of Unsane, Cop Shoot Cop, and Swans – release their self-titled debut album on March 13 via Ipecac Recordings.

Swans North American tour dates – News

January 15, 2020

Having released their 15th studio album, Leaving Meaning, to considerable media acclaim, Swans announce North American tour dates for Spring 2020.

Neurosis & Jarboe – Review

March 1, 2004

Jarboe sings atop and within the continual whir and throb with a clean and pure (although varying) tone of death and redemption.

The Angels of Light – Everything is Good Here/Please Come Home – Review

July 23, 2003

In abandoning the Swans moniker, Gira approaches his style in a fresh way, repetition not morphing into tedium, his attitude brighter (Well, not as depressed.)

Swans – Public Castration is a Good Idea – Review

January 1, 2000

A collection of recordings from a European tour in ’86, when the music was still more brutal than beautiful.

Swans – Soundtracks For the Blind – Interview

May 1, 1997

An interview with Gira

Swans – with Low at the Somerville Theatre – Review

April 1, 1997

Swans music descends like a black cloud and comes down in torrents. This isn’t music you listen to, you surrender to it.

Low – with Swans at the Somerville Theatre – Review

April 1, 1997

The Roman Empire could rise and fall between notes, and the songs are couched in a placid, glacial atmosphere. If sleep produced an actual sound, it’d be this.