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Wasted Shirt – Fungus II (2020)
Psych-rock king Ty Segall and Lightning Bolt’s Brian Chippendale join forces — or rather, explosively collide — as Wasted Shirt, a long-awaited collaboration that has left fans expecting the...
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The Garden – Kiss My Super Bowl Ring (2020)
Some might roll with the descriptor “art punks” when referring to Wyatt and Fletcher Shears, the unpredictable duo behind The Garden, but they often do so many things at once that fitting them into...
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Human Impact – Human Impact (2020)
Imagine an orgy scored by rusty industrial equipment blasting New York City noise-rock, something like Unsane, Cop Shoot Cop, or Swans in their wicked primes. It would be a gritty, menacing spectacle —...
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King Dude – Full Virgo Moon (2020)
Full Virgo Moon, or rather, the full moon in Virgo, refers to the moon in September that is often depicted as the Goddess of the Harvest or the Earth Mother. This use of astrological, pre-Christian...
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Killing Joke – The Unperverted Pantomime (2020)
A timely re-mastered re-release for this rare collection of live recordings and radio sessions that finds the classic Killing Joke line up of Jaz Coleman (vocals, keyboards), Geordie Walker (guitar);...
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Therapy? – Greatest Hits: The Abbey Road Session (2020)
To celebrate thirty years of creating consummate noise rock bangers, Northern Ireland’s Therapy? have decided to approach reminding us of their twelve most successful Top 40 UK singles by re-recording...
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Nine Inch Nails – Ghosts V: Together / Ghosts VI: Locusts (2020)
Friends- Weird times indeed… As the news seems to turn ever more grim by the hour, we’ve found ourselves vacillating wildly between feeling like there may be hope at times to utter despair – often...
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VA – Mojo Presents: This Is a Call! 15 Brainmelting Dispatches from the...
1. Sugar – Gift 2. Superchunk – The First Part 3. Sebadoh – Beauty of the Ride 4. Shudder to Think – X-French Tee Shirt 5. Lotion – She Is Weird City 6. Girls Against Boys – (I) Don’t Got a Place 7....
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Melkbelly – PITH (2020)
Melkbelly‘s debut album, Nothing Valley, gave notice that the Chicago foursome had an encyclopedic knowledge of noisy, heavy indie rock both past and present, while also impressing with the ability to...
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Afuma – Songs from the Shore (2019)
On Songs from the Shore, Afuma — the duo of guitarists Taketo Shimada and Stefan Tcherepnin — explore both death and the afterlife. That weighty subject matter is echoed by the sound of musicians’ lap...
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Stefan Christensen – The Upcoming Flame (2019)
Thirty years back, the sounds emanating from Xpressway records seemed like they were coming from someplace very, very far away. Sure, the Dead C, Gate, and Alastair Galbraith (amongst others) did their...
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Gaytheist – How Long Have I Been On Fire (2020)
Depending on your tolerance for puns, Gaytheist may have one of the best names in contemporary heavy rock, or one of the most annoying. Many of their song titles walk a similar line between what’s...
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RODAN – the Hat Factory 93 (2019)
In the ‘90s, indie rock was a different beast, an ecosystem clearly derived from and still closely connected to punk. Only alt-weeklies and zines covered its artists, and discovery meant scouring liner...
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Jim Shepard – Heavy Action (2019)
Jim Shepard was a lo-fi renaissance man — poet, musician, early home-taper, sound collagist — who inhabited the fringes of a Columbus, Ohio art rock scene, fronting bands including Vertical Slit,...
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VA – Dreams to Fill the Vacuum: The Sound of Sheffield 1977-1988 (2019)
By the late 1970s Sheffield was on the edge. The erstwhile industrial powerhouse was crumbling under the weight of recession, the decline of manufacturing, rising unemployment and the degradations of...
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Officer! – Yes Yes No No Yes No Yes (1988, Reissue 2020)
Officer! was founded by Londoner Mick Hobbs, whose roots were in the Rock In Opposition scene of the late ’70s and early ’80s. Initially he worked as guitarist in The Work, subsequently he became...
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Sex Swing – Type II (2020)
Featuring members of Mugstar, Bonnacons of Doom, Dethscalator, Earth, and who knows how many other projects from the UK underground and beyond, Sex Swing’s second LP Type II sees the ragtag supergroup...
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Bill Nace – Both (2020)
Guitarist Bill Nace has spent the past 15 years navigating the intersection of rock music, free improvisation, and pure noise. He has a proclivity for unresolved tension; he pushes his collaborators to...
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Sonic Youth – All Tomorrow’s Parties 2000 (2020)
Sonic Youth’s first live performance in 2000 and their last as a quartet for some time was a predominately instrumental set at the very first All Tomorrows Parties Festival. Curated by Mogwai, the...
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Mrs. Piss – Self-Surgery EP (2020)
Chelsea Wolfe has never been afraid of incorporating a broad range of genres in her music (including goth, industrial, and electronic), but the eloquent gloom and corrosive textures of metal have been...
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