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Pixies – Come On Pilgrim… It’s Surfer Rosa (2018)
To commemorate the 30th anniversary of Surfer Rosa‘s 1988 release, 4AD collected the album and its predecessor, the mini-album Come on Pilgrim, as Come on Pilgrim… It’s Surfer Rosa. Both works still...
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Lee Ranaldo – Electric Trim Live at Rough Trade East (2018)
A solo acoustic live album from a former member of Sonic Youth sounds either like a practical joke or a wildly non-essential release, at least on paper. But Lee Ranaldo was always a wild-card talent in...
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Sonic Youth – Williamsburg Waterfront, Brooklyn, NY [August 12, 2011] (2018)
They were one of the world’s most impressive live groups, and now Sonic Youth have begun releasing recordings of old shows at part of an ongoing live archival program. Last month marked the 30th...
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DMBQ – Keeenly (2018)
Throughout a very productive stretch in the ’90s and early 2000s, Japanese psych-rock outfit DMBQ churned out volumes of wild-eyed heavy music adjacent to the overblown tones of their friends in the...
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Sonic Youth – Daydream Nation: ABC1, Glasgow, GB [August 22, 2007] (2018)
They were one of the world’s most impressive live groups, and now Sonic Youth have begun releasing recordings of old shows at part of an ongoing live archival program. Last month marked the 30th...
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Obnox – Bang Messiah (2018)
“You don’t like me? I don’t give a fuck” is how Lamont “Bim” Thomas opens Bang Messiah, in the brief, inflamed “Steve Albini Thinks We Suck” (Albini produced the album and likely thinks no such thing)....
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Obnox – Templo del Sonido (2018)
The line between free jazz and psychedelic rock has always been a permeable one, with incursions coming from both sides, whether in Archie Shepp’s funk-jazz-rock landmark “Attica Blues” or Jimi...
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Sonic Youth – Cabaret Metro, Chicago, IL [November 11, 1988 / August 17,...
They were one of the world’s most impressive live groups, and now Sonic Youth have begun releasing recordings of old shows at part of an ongoing live archival program. Last month marked the 30th...
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The Dead C – Rare Ravers (2019)
New Zealand noise rock innovators the Dead C spent decades honing a rich emotional language cloaked in feedback and brittle production values. The trio’s history of bending drums and guitars into...
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Green River – Dry as a Bone + Rehab Doll [Deluxe Editions] (2019)
Formed in 1984 and defunct by 1987, Seattle’s Green River didn’t enjoy an auspicious career. They released two EPs of sludgy punk-metal during their time together, both of which were delayed by their...
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Sonic Youth – Veterans Wadsworth Theater, Los Angeles [May 28, 1998] (2019)
They were one of the world’s most impressive live groups, and now Sonic Youth have begun releasing recordings of old shows at part of an ongoing live archival program. Last year marked the 30th...
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Guided By Voices – Zeppelin Over China (2019)
Guided By Voices return with another feather in their massive cap with Zeppelin Over China, the 26th album released from Robert Pollard and his ever-changing line-up. Often portrayed as underground...
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Skinny Girl Diet – Ideal Woman (2018)
Following a series of increasingly visible self-released EPs, feminist punk combo Skinny Girl Diet made their long-awaited debut with 2016’s appealingly cathartic Heavy Flow. At the time, the...
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Half Japanese – Invincible (2019)
Puppet people, vampires and the walking dead frequent the world of Jad Fair’s songwriting – outside of those interruptions he’s besotted. Maybe even in love. He feels invincible and as the closing...
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The Mekons – Deserted (2019)
“There’s never been a band quite like the Mekons. Unmarred by breakups or breakouts, undefined by genre, geography, or ego-trips…no rock outfit’s ever been this committed to behaving like a true band,...
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Oozing Wound – High Anxiety (2019)
Oozing Wound have been at it for six years, and on their brand-new fourth full-length, High Anxiety, they’ve finally reached peak ooze. Formed by three Chicago noise rockers with a taste for heavy...
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Tropical Fuck Storm – A Laughing Death in Meatspace (2018)
You could call Tropical Fuck Storm an Australian indie supergroup – and many in the Australian music press have. Singer and songwriter Gareth Liddiard and bassist Fiona Kitschin are key members of the...
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Sandra Bell – Net (1995, Remastered 2018)
Think of Sandra Bell as New Zealand’s Patti Smith, chanting abstract poetry over firestorms of guitar noise, collaborating with the avant garde and turning up the noise and distortion in a way that few...
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Swans – What Is This? (2019)
As has been the case for the past four decades, Michael Gira is doing something unconventional. Following up their trilogy of punishing (two hours long, each of ’em), entrancing, and very weird records...
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The Dead C – Rare Ravers (2019)
New Zealand noise rock innovators the Dead C spent decades honing a rich emotional language cloaked in feedback and brittle production values. The trio’s history of bending drums and guitars into...
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