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Maneka – Is You Is (2017)
Best known for shredding guitars in Speedy Ortiz, Devin McKnight struck out alone earlier this year, focusing his attentions on solo occupation Maneka. Maneka‘s debut album, Is You Is, is McKnight‘s...
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Foo Fighters – Concrete and Gold (2017)
You know, it’s not that Dave Grohl doesn’t care about music. That idea would seem preposterous to his zillions of fans. But he wins so often these days that it’s easy to forget what he’s lost: The...
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Lee Ranaldo – Electric Trim (2017)
Regardless of how you define Sonic Youth’s current status – hiatus, endless vacation, break up, whatever – what is unavoidable is that the band stopped working together at the point that they reached a...
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METZ – Strange Peace (2017)
Strange Peace is the third album from the Toronto noise-rock outfit METZ, and it’s anything but peaceful. Starting with their self-titled debut for Sub Pop records, the trio of singer-guitarist Alex...
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Chelsea Wolfe – Hiss Spun (2017)
In the press release for Chelsea Wolfe’s new album, Hiss Spun, there is the following quote from the American writer, Henry Miller: “What I want is to open up. I want to know what’s inside me. I want...
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The Residents – Dot.Com (2017)
“Between June 1999 and May 2000 Ralph America posted several Residents MP3s on their website. Shortly afterwards, these exclusive pieces were collected on a limited edition CD entitled Dot.Com....
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Oxbow – Thin Black Duke (2017)
It’s been 10 years since the last Oxbow album, but it’s not as if the band has been doing nothing in that time. The ideas for this album have been kicking around for a while now. Niko Wenner’s precise...
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Primus – The Desaturating Seven (2017)
Never ones to shy away from a quirky concept, prog-funk trio Primus found inspiration in Italian author Ul de Rico’s children’s book The Rainbow Goblins, and twisted it into something only Primus could...
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Kristeen Young – Live at the Witch’s Tit (2017)
Kristeen Young’s steely, indefatigable identity is as resistant to categorization as her music, which has been described as “eclectic,” “operatic-punk,” and “intergalactic” without ever quite capturing...
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Pere Ubu – Drive, He Said 1994-2002 (2017)
For the last few years, Fire Records have taken on the task of revisiting Pere Ubu’s impressive back catalogue in a way that avoids simply presenting handfuls of career highlights, outside of their...
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Marilyn Manson – Heaven Upside Down (2017)
After a late-career rejuvenation with 2015’s The Pale Emperor, Marilyn Manson extended his creative hot streak with musical partner Tyler Bates on the band’s tenth offering, Heaven Upside Down....
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The Replacements – For Sale: Live at Maxwell’s 1986 (2017)
Over 30 years after the Replacements performed a February 1986 gig at Hoboken, New Jersey’s Maxwell’s, a live album of that concert will finally be released after sitting in the Warner Music vaults for...
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Mark Kozelek, Ben Boye, Jim White – Mark Kozelek with Ben Boye and Jim White...
Mark Kozelek’s fifth release in 2017 was created with keyboardist Ben Boye (who appeared on both of the year’s Sun Kil Moon albums in addition to numerous recordings by Bonnie “Prince” Billy and Ryley...
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Bully – Losing (2017)
While Bully’s 2015 debut Feels Like tumbled headlong into the precarious nature of Alicia Bognanno’s young adult life, its follow-up Losing is their first for Sub Pop (which in many ways feels like...
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The Church – Man Woman Life Death Infinity (2017)
After the release of 2014’s Further/Deeper, Australia’s the Church spent much of the next three years touring, splitting their live set between new songs and revisiting tracks off their 1982 sophomore...
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The Residents – 80 Aching Orphans: 45 Years of the Residents Hardback Book...
Extended, 4CD anthology set chronicling the career of the legendary San Francisco experimentalistsand curated with the band themselves, from the debut 1972 single to the band’s most recent album, The...
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Unsane – Sterilize (2017)
Twenty-six years on from their debut album, you might imagine that Unsane have calmed down a bit, that as more mature artists their approach would become less violent and more nuanced. You would be...
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Hüsker Dü – Savage Young Dü (2017)
It’s tough to think of a rock band as storied and ferocious as Hüsker Dü that has been as poorly served by its recording history. The majority of the ’80s punk-noise-hardcore trio’s work — featuring...
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Melkbelly – Nothing Valley (2017)
Melkbelly may be saddled with the kind of name that makes one wonder what names they decided not to pick, but their debut album shows that you can’t judge a band by name alone. The Chicago quartet kick...
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Ministry – Live Necronomicon (2017)
Cleopatra Records has absconded with the key to Al Jourgensen’s vault of lost recordings. In 2015, they released the Trax! Box box set of his recordings with Wax! Trax Records. It included recordings...
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