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Kim Gordon, Bill Nace, Steve Gunn, John Truscinski – Sound for Andy Warhol’s...
In mid-May The Andy Warhol Museum celebrated its 25th anniversary as well as the opening of a new exhibit of work from artist and musician Kim Gordon, including an improvised score for Warhol’s silent...
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Nine Inch Nails – With Teeth [Definitive Edition] (2019)
This self-decribed “definitive version” of ‘White Teeth’ was prepared by Trent Reznor, his NIN collaborator Atticus Ross, and art director John Crawford. The set features a new remaster of the album,...
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Pere Ubu – The Long Goodbye (2019)
Ever since “30 Seconds Over Tokyo,” Pere Ubu have been portending the end, either with their apocalyptic sounds or the numerous times they’ve threatened to call it quits. This time, they may actually...
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The Flaming Lips – The Soft Bulletin Recorded Live at Red Rocks with the...
On 26th May 2016, The Flaming Lips performed their universally acclaimed 1999 album The Soft Bulletin in its entirety with the Colorado Symphony at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado. This...
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Live Skull – Saturday Night Massacre (2019)
The latest in Live Skull’s continuing saga of depravity and redemption: Saturday Night Massacre! Icon of 1980s New York, Live Skull has reformed and completed work on its first new album in 30 years!...
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The Young Gods – L’eau Rouge/Red Water [30th Anniversary Edition] (2019)
On the occasion of its anniversary, ‘L’eau Rouge / The Red Water’ is reissued as a remastered version, enriched with numerous bonuses – ‘L’amourir’, ‘Pas Mal’ (extracted from the 12” which preceded the...
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Filter – Short Bus [Expanded Edition] (2019)
…remastered and expanded, featuring four bonus tracks: “(Can’t You) Trip Like I Do” (originally recorded for the cult-classic soundtrack ‘Spawn The Album’), “Jurassitol” (previously released on ‘The...
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Caspar Brötzmann Massaker – The Tribe + Black Axis (1988, 1989, Remastered 2019)
The music of Caspar Brötzmann can sound terrifying — fitting, of course, for a guitarist who famously called his early and most important band Massaker. In the late 1980s, Brötzmann, long inspired by...
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USA/Mexico – Matamoros (2019)
Austin’s USA/Mexico aren’t quite sludge or doom or death metal. Instead, they lurch somewhere in between the down-tuned pummel of bands like Buzzov•en and Eyehategod and the ultraviolent spazzes of...
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Royal Trux – Quantum Entanglement (2020)
“This inquiry began with a deceptively simple question,” wrote the late American social critic Christopher Lasch in his 1991 text The True and Only Heaven: Progress and its Critics. “How does it happen...
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Cassels – The Perfect Ending (2019)
“The Perfect Ending,” the lead single from Cassels’ third record of the same name, begins with 25 seconds of birds chirping, eventually launching into a pulverizing guitar riff backed by even heavier...
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Trinary System – Lights in the Center Your Head (2019)
Roger Miller, of the much loved, double-lived post-punk outfit Mission of Burma, had been out of the frame for decades when that band reunited. The reunion shows were pure love of the game — for fans...
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Shimmer – And I Revel (2019)
Each of the four members of New York band Shimmer have spent the better part of the past decade exploring the frayed fringes of rock music. Anina Ivry-Block and Nina Ryser make chattery, absurdist...
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Xetas – The Cypher (2020)
The cut begins in a shattering drum beat, left on its own for longer than you’d think, gathering speed and tumultuousness as it goes on and met finally with a surprising sweet, blisteringly loud wall...
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SQÜRL – Some Music for Robby Müller (2020)
Known for his artistic manipulation of natural light and beautiful minimalist imagery, iconic Dutch cinematographer Robby Müller made a real impression on Jim Jarmusch. Long before Müller’s passing in...
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Sonic Youth – Live in Moscow ’89 (2019)
Recorded live at Orlyonok concert hall, Moscow, April 12-13, 1989. It’s an officially-sanctioned limited release (300 only!) of the band’s first Moscow gig, which was the third of four dates behind...
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Guided by Voices – Surrender Your Poppy Field (2020)
With over 30 albums under their belt, it can be understandably hard to get excited about a new Guided By Voices album in 2020. Led by songwriter Robert Pollard, the band have gone through endless...
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Witching Waves – Persistence (2019)
Difficult not to read a sense of tongue-in-cheek optimism in that title – years of slogging away on the UK’s DIY circuit have made Witching Waves into the band they are today, and the results are...
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Wrekmeister Harmonies – We Love to Look at the Carnage (2020)
We Love to Look at the Carnage the 5th album by Brooklyn’s Wrekmeister Harmonies, J.R. Robinson, and Esther Shaw, features frequent collaborator Thor Harris (Swans, Shearwater) percussion and Jamie...
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Pixies – Beneath the Eyrie [Deluxe Edition] (2020)
On their third post-reunion album, Pixies do what they failed to on Indie Cindy and Head Carrier: suggest a way forward for their music. Too often on those albums, it felt like the band was trying to...
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