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Omar Rodríguez-López – Infinity Drips (2016)
Infinity Drips is the thirty-fourth studio album by Omar Rodríguez-López as a solo artist, and his eighth release in the 12 album series initiated by Ipecac Recordings. Infinity Drips shares its name...
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Omar Rodríguez-López – El Bien y mal Nos Une (2016)
El Bien y Mal Nos Une is the thirty-second studio album by Omar Rodríguez-López as a solo artist, and his sixth release in the 12 album series initiated by Ipecac Recordings. The album features several...
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Omar Rodríguez-López – Arañas en La Sombra (2016)
Arañas en La Sombra is the thirtieth studio album by Omar Rodríguez-López as a solo artist, and his fourth release in the 12 album series initiated by Ipecac Recordings. The record features tracks that...
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Omar Rodriguez-Lopez – Some Need It Lonely (2016)
Some Need It Lonely is the 38th studio album by Omar Rodríguez-López and his twelfth and last release in the 12 album series initiated by Ipecac Recordings, although before its release the label...
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Howe Gelb –‘Sno Angel Like You + Sno Angel Winging It’ (2016)
One of the first things that strikes you about Howe Gelb‘s ‘Sno Angel Like You is that Gelb recorded this set with a gospel choir from Canada called Voices of Praise; he called the project “Sno Angel”...
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Uniform – Ghosthouse EP (2016)
Michael Berdan has a brawler’s voice, spittle-flecked and dissolute. Those nagging vocals seized center stage on Perfect World, the blistering 2015 debut LP from Uniform, Berdan’s duo with...
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Public Image Ltd. – Album [Super Deluxe Edition] (2016)
Super deluxe edition includes complete disc of unreleased demos, an unreleased Live at Brixton Academy disc and various mixes and outtakes on another CD (including three versions of ‘Rise’). With its...
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Gone Is Gone – Echolocation (2017)
The word “supergroup” gets thrown around in most of the coverage of Gone Is Gone. Composed of Troy Sanders (Mastodon), Tony Hajjar (At the Drive-In), Troy Van Leeuwen (Queens of the Stone Age), and...
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Doomsday Student – A Self-Help Tragedy (2016)
Doomsday Student is Eric Paul, Stephen Mattos, Craig Kureck, and Paul Vieira. Made up of members from bands such as Arab on Radar, The Chinese Stars, Athletic Automaton and Chrome Jackson, we should...
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Rage Against the Machine – Evil Empire (1996, Audio Fidelity 2016)
Rage Against the Machine spent four years making their second album, Evil Empire. As the title suggests, their rage and contempt for the “fascist” capitalist system in America hadn’t declined in the...
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Half Japanese – Hear the Lions Roar (2017)
Half Japanese began in the late ’70s as a band of primitive outsiders, breaking musical rules that founding brothers Jad and David Fair never even learned. But it didn’t take them long to become...
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Hey Colossus – Dedicated to Uri Klangers (2003-2013) (2016)
When Hey Colossus produced a cassette of tunes selected haphazardly from their chaotic first decade, they didn’t think much of it. They sold those 50 tapes at their 10th anniversary gig at the Sebright...
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Uniform – Wake in Fright (2017)
Following their 2015 debut full-length, Perfect World, New York-based industrial/noise rock duo Uniform signed to Sacred Bones for the release of 2016’s Ghosthouse EP, which set the stage for their...
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Avec le soleil sortant de sa bouche – Pas pire pop, I Love You So Much (2017)
In a press kit, Avec le soleil sortant de sa bouche are defined as a Krautrock ensemble. The appellation might feel like an understatement at first, but the more their new album Pas pire pop, I Love...
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Creative Adult – Fear of Life (2016)
With each album, Creative Adult move further away from their post-hardcore roots — the band includes former members of Life Long Tragedy and All Teeth — and further into a more unusual niche. As on...
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Mirrors for Psychic Warfare – Mirrors for Psychic Warfare (2016)
…The excellently-named Mirrors for Psychic Warfare is yet another constellation in the galaxy of Neurosis side-projects, and though they couldn’t be called experimental music in the idiomatic sense,...
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TAD – God’s Balls [Deluxe Edition] (2016)
When the grunge scene was incubating in the Pacific Northwest during the ’80s, it often seemed like an outsized response to the increasing polish of alternative rock and the rarely acknowledged...
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E – E (2016)
The Boston-based trio known as E consists of guitarist Thalia Zedek (Come, Uzi, Live Skull), guitarist Jason Sidney Sanford (Neptune), and drummer Gavin McCarthy (Karate), all veterans of various...
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Meat Wave – The Incessant (2017)
Intense Chicago post-punks Meat Wave make a desperate racket on The Incessant, their third LP and second release for Side One Dummy. A deeply cathartic set written in the wake of frontman Chris...
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Pissed Jeans – Why Love Now (2017)
The world of Philadelphia’s premiere shit-stirrers Pissed Jeans is one of delirious sludge and wild- eyed drudge. They stand out from the rest of the pack for their incisive, insidious digs at male...
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