USA/Mexico – Del Rio (2021)
The recorded output of USA/Mexico has documented a steady musical deceleration, from the relatively (an important adverb here) rockin’ riffs of their first LP, Laredo (2017), to the stretched-out,...
View ArticleThe Jesus and Mary Chain – Live at Barrowland (2022)
Reissue of The Jesus and Mary Chain‘s ‘Psychocandy’ live album Live At Barrowland. In November 2014 The Jesus and Mary Chain celebrated three decades of their incendiary cult-classic debut album,...
View ArticleThe Jesus and Mary Chain – Damage and Joy [Deluxe Edition] (2022)
Deluxe reissue of The Jesus and Mary Chain’s ‘Damage and Joy’ album. Originally released in 2017 on the band’s own label Artificial Plastic and now being reissued by Fuzz Club Records, Damage And Joy...
View ArticleNight Crickets – A Free Society (2022)
Debut release from David J (Bauhaus, Love And Rockets), Victor DeLorenzo (Violent Femmes) and multi-instrumentalist Darwin Meiners. Iconic and foundational bands in the history of alternative music...
View ArticleBoris – W (2022)
W was recorded as a companion to 2020’s ear-splitting No, Boris‘ most punishing album since 2011’s Heavy Rocks. The final track on No, titled “Interlude” opened the doorway for W’s quark yet deeply...
View ArticleFucked Up – David Comes to LIVE: Live at Warsaw, Brooklyn November 2011 (2022)
Pink Eye took to the [Brooklyn] stage with his child on his shoulders before ripping through the recent opus David Comes to Life in its entirety. The energy comprised by this band is nearly unmatched...
View ArticleTheatre of Hate – Omens: Studio Work 1980-2020 (2022)
Theatre of Hate burned briefly but brightly during the first couple of years of the 1980s, leaving behind the seminal ‘Westworld’ album, a handful of highly regarded Peel sessions and independent hit...
View ArticleWovenhand – Silver Sash (2022)
Silver Sash is the first sign of life by David Eugene Edwards since the critically acclaimed Star Treament in 2016. The new album is the first Wovenhand opus completely written in cooperation with...
View ArticleUrge Overkill – Oui (2022)
Oui is the new release from Nash Kato and King Roeser-their first in over a decade. It’s full of their signature mix of rock, hooks, and fancy bling, which is exactly what a post-pandemic planet has...
View ArticleTrupa Trupa – B FLAT A (2022)
A few years on from their hypnotic Of the Sun album, Polish quartet Trupa Trupa has returned with a release as eerily captivating but displaying more propulsive anger. Once more marrying post-rock,...
View ArticleSwans – Is There Really a Mind? (2022)
Swans have shared an acoustic collection of tracks titled Is There Really a Mind?, and have also launched a fundraiser for the “fully realized and well produced” version of the record planned for...
View ArticleBUÑUEL – Killers Like Us (2022)
Remember when noise rock felt like it meant you actual harm? Killers Like Us is dark and intense. Heavy as lead but quick on its feet, plunging your face into a cold world of sin and retribution. All...
View ArticleDie! Die! Die! – This Is Not an Island Anymore (2022)
Since their debut in 2005, Die! Die! Die! has blended a powerful and infectious concoction of post-punk, noise pop, shoegaze, lo-fi, and punk rock into one massive sounding whole. Fresh for a global...
View ArticleCome – Peel Sessions (2022)
For a couple years in the early 1990s, Come was the best band playing in the space at which punk, indie and rock’n’roll converged. The “rock’n’roll” was especially prevalent in the band’s singular...
View ArticleCheer-Accident – Here Comes the Sunset (2022)
On its 24th album, long-running Chicago institution Cheer-Accident, helmed by singer/drummer/trumpeter Thymme Jones, reaffirms its position as one of the world’s best prog rock bands. But for the...
View ArticleBlack Francis – 07-11 (2021)
…features 129 tracks across nine CDs including five studio albums – ‘Bluefinger’ (2007), ‘Svn Fngrs’ (2008), ‘The Golem’ (2010), ‘NonStopErotik’ (2010), and ‘Paley & Francis’ (2011). Plus,...
View ArticleNick Cave & The Bad Seeds – B-Sides & Rarities: Part I (2005, Reissue 2021)
Nick Cave finally gives the dedicated fans what they’ve desired for years (and have probably amassed in various guises in shoddy bootlegs): an official career-spanning cataloging of the various Bad...
View ArticleSonic Youth – In/Out/In (2022)
Kim Gordon’s voice cascades dreamily over the liquid guitars in “In & Out.” Steve Shelley plays a muted but active beat, clicking on the rims and rumbling on the toms, so that it sounds like a herd...
View ArticleGnod – Hexen Valley (2022)
Tumbling into any given Gnod release always requires the unravelling of one’s own psychic threads as much as trying to fathom what the band have achieved sonically. While your first reaction will...
View ArticlePsychic Graveyard / USA Nails – Split (2022)
The “in-name only” United States and Kingdom’s divisions are more raw and splintered than ever before. And it’s from this place of division that the USA’s Psychic Graveyard and Skin Graft Records have...
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