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Irk – Recipes from the Bible (2018)
Sometimes a band is greater than the sum of its parts. Leeds math-rock outfit Irk are Jack Gordon on vocals, Ed Snell on bass and Matt Deamer on drums, but the brutal and abrasive music they craft...
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Show Me the Body – Dog Whistle (2019)
With its seething frustration, paranoia and disenchantment with the status quo, the second album from this New York punk trio dovetails depressingly closely with the emotional tenor of the UK – and...
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Low Dose – Low Dose (2019)
Since forming last year, the Philadelphia-based Low Dose has been making a ton of noise in the alt-rock scene. With a lineup that brings together vocalist Itarya Rosenberg (Legendary Divorce) and the...
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Sonic Youth – Crawford Hall, Irvine, CA [November 3, 1990] (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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The Flaming Lips – King’s Mouth: Music and Songs (2019)
It says a lot about the general weirdness of the Flaming Lips that when they make a concept album featuring narration by Mick Jones of the Clash, it barely registers a blip on the “odd” scale. Surely,...
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Buck Gooter – Finer Thorns (2019)
There isn’t a musical box that would comfortably fit Buck Gooter. Even if there were, it would only take guitarist/vocalist Terry Turtle and vocalist/ synthesist Billy Brett a few minutes to...
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Guided by Voices – Warp and Woof (2019)
Following GBV’s sprawling double-album Zeppelin Over China, Robert Pollard has written and recorded another full-length in record-breaking time. It’s Warp and Woof, exuberantly barreling through 24...
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Pile – Green and Gray (2019)
Midway through Pile’s new album comes one of the best and most unusual protest songs of the Trump era. Its title, “The Soft Hands of Stephen Miller,” resembles an ironic in-joke. Except Pile’s singer...
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Terminal Cheesecake – Le Sacre Du Lièvre (2019)
Terminal Cheesecake operate at a crazed pitch not dissimilar to Butthole Surfers, albeit by varying means, in that an underlying mischievousness underscores everything they produce. And if Le Sacre Du...
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Lungbutter – Honey (2019)
…The frantic opening guitar squall of Montreal’s noise trio Lungbutter’s full-length debut, Honey, sound a siren. Guitarist Kaity Zozula has many such febrile flights of fancy over the course of the...
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Sonic Youth – Battery Park, NYC: July 4th 2008 (2019)
It’s been close to a decade since Sonic Youth played their last concert in Brazil in the fall of 2011, and the group has been slowly releasing live recordings and outtakes from their archives ever...
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Shellac – The End of Radio (2019)
There are few men in the history of rock music who have less business being called sentimental than Steve Albini. Any man who would title an album Songs About Fucking or name one of his bands Rapeman...
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The Fall – Bend Sinister / The Domesday Pay-Off Triad – Plus (2019)
Remastered, newly transferred from analogue tapes, contains 6 unreleased songs. The follow-up to the Fall’s breakout LP, This Nation’s Saving Grace, Bend Sinister proved that Mark E. Smith had...
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The Fall – Dragnet (2019)
Two albums in a busy 1979 for the Fall, but in no sense could Dragnet be considered a traditional follow up. For a start, the band’s make up had substantially changed. Martin Bramah, so crucial to...
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Black Midi – Schlagenheim (2019)
London quartet Black Midi gained maximum buzz with a minimal presence in the press or online. Shortly after graduating from the Brit School, the performing arts institute that also served as an...
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Sonic Youth – Paris, France • Olympia • June 7, 2001 (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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Melvins / Flipper – Hot Fish EP (2019)
Melvins and Flipper have teamed up for a new collaborative four-song 10″ EP out via Amphetamine Reptile. Created by core Melvins members Buzz Osborne and Dale Crover, Flipper members Steve DePace and...
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VA – Chip & Tony Kinman: Sounds Like Music (2019)
Brothers Chip and Tony Kinman had fronted some of the most influential bands of the last quarter of the 20th century. After forming the seminal punk band, The Dils (and even scoring an appearance in...
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E – Negative Work (2018)
Some bands show a noticeable evolution between their first and second album. That doesn’t seem to be the case with 2018’s Negative Work, the second full-length release from E, an experimental indie...
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Swans – Soundtracks for the Blind / Die Tür Ist Zu (Remastered 2018)
“Soundtracks for the Blind” – originally released in 1996, and the band’s last studio album prior to their 2010 reformation – reissued on CD featuring a repackage of the original digipak for the 1996...
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