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Boris – Dear [Japanese Edition] (2017)
Boris looked happy. The Japanese trio was tearing through “Just Abandoned Myself,” a two-chord stick of dynamite blown to euphoric heights at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C. They were celebrating a...
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Dasher – Sodium (2017)
Dasher‘s Kylee Kimbrough has had to fight for her music: After uprooting herself from the Atlanta scene that spawned the band, she relocated to Bloomington, Indiana to rebuild Dasher and her life — and...
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SQÜRL – EP #260 (2017)
Jim Jarmusch’s films are often about patience and deliberation, as if rushing through anything would be sinful. Think of Johnny Depp’s zombified journey in Jarmusch’s surreal Western Dead Man, Bill...
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’68 – Two Parts Viper (2017)
…The man has had one of the most illustrious careers in modern heavy music, and has blessed head-bangers far and wide with some of the gnarliest albums to have ever ripped. Whether you followed Josh...
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Violent Femmes – 2 Mics & the Truth: Unplugged & Unhinged in America (2017)
In 2016, the Violent Femmes released the album We Can Do Anything, and to promote it, like most bands, they went out on tour. In addition to playing concert venues, the Femmes appeared at a number of...
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The Fall – New Facts Emerge (2017)
…New Facts Emerge is the thirty-second Fall album and regardless of who is playing behind him, who is releasing his records and who he’s married to, frontman Mark E Smith carries that idea forward and...
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Guided by Voices – How Do You Spell Heaven (2017)
The ever increasingly-prolific Guided By Voices are back (yet again) with How Do You Spell Heaven, a release that finds Robert Pollard and Co. in predictably fine form. On the heels of an expansive...
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Los Lichis – Dog (2016)
With our crate-digger culture reaching peak levels, it’s always surprising to find an artist that has been making music for over 20 years and hasn’t already been anthologized. That’s what makes the...
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Naomi Punk – Yellow (2017)
After The Feeling introduced a wider audience to their high-concept collage punk, Naomi Punk spent their next two albums tweaking its scale: They tightened and sharpened it on Television Man,...
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Fucked Up – Year of the Snake EP (2017)
More than any other major punk band of their time, Fucked Up have no use for the accepted musical conventions of punk. It’s not that they don’t like stuff fast and loud, just that they see no need to...
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Controlled Bleeding – Carving Songs (2017)
Following 2016’s much-lauded Larva Lumps & Baby Bumps, Controlled Bleeding returns with Carving Songs, a massive remix album totalling 20 tracks, including a 21st track, TROD, a brand new...
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Controlled Bleeding – Larva Lumps and Baby Bumps (2016)
Since their 1983 debut Knees and Bones, the Long Island-based Controlled Bleeding’s 30-plus albums have spanned a dizzying array of genres including noise, industrial, no wave, prog, psych, and jazz...
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The Mekons – Existentialism (2016)
Back in 1987, the ROIR label released a tape called New York — one of many rather roughshod titles from the then-cassette-only New York outpost. The quasi-legit collection almost sounded like a...
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Liars – Theme from Crying Fountain (2017)
It’s been a long old road for Angus Andrew. His – and it is his now – band, Liars, have been making their dissonant noise for the best part of a decade-and-a-half, constantly shape shifting throughout...
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Jad and David Fair – Shake, Cackle and Squall (2016)
Through most of their career, Half Japanese were a singularly polarizing band, with Jad Fair’s stream-of-consciousness lyrics running side by side with music that was purposefully created without...
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Royal Trux – Platinum Tips + Ice Cream (2017)
Even though many of the great indie bands of the ’80s and ’90s eventually got back together in the 2000s and 2010s, a Royal Trux reunion seemed impossible — until it wasn’t. Joined by Black Bananas...
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Today Is the Day – Temple of the Morning Star [20th Anniversary Deluxe...
Back in 1997 when Today is the Day‘s Temple of the Morning Star came out, a surprising number of people thought it was their first album. Previously, the band had had a number of releases on...
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The Sisters of Mercy – Some Girls Wander By Mistake [Expanded Edition] (2017)
…includes two 12-inch singles, the first of which features the 1992 re-recorded version of “Temple of Love”, and the second features two mixes of “Under the Gun” (and an updated version of “Alice”)....
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Tera Melos – Trash Generator (2017)
The long-awaited follow-up to 2013’s X’ed Out, Trash Generator finds the Sacramento-based math rock unit turning in another singular set of knotty, hook-laden, anti-pop emissions that deliver daring...
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Alien Sex Fiend – Fiendology: A 35 Year Trip Through Fiendish History...
3 CD collection spanning the 35 year history of the seminal goth and industrial legends including five previously unreleased recordings. Subterraneanly subtitled A 35-Year Trip Through Fiendish History...
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