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Autolux – Pussy’s Dead (2016)
Legend has it that once every six years, on the night of a blood-red full moon, Greg Edwards and Carla Azar descend into the heart of a moss-encrusted crypt in the heart of Los Angeles and whisper the...
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Chelsea Wolfe – Abyss [Deluxe Edition] (2016)
On Abyss, Chelsea Wolfe brings the heaviness in her music to the fore in a way that’s more natural, and more compelling, than merely “going metal.” Given the darkness and drama present even on her...
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Filter – Crazy Eyes (2016)
Two decades after Short Bus and Richard Patrick is nostalgic. On Crazy Eyes, Patrick reintroduces the ominous energy from the early industrial-leaning releases and sprinkles in references to former...
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VA – Doused in Mud, Soaked in Bleach (2016)
Robotic Empire returns with their third Nirvana tribute, “Doused In Mud, Soaked In Bleach”, completing a trifecta of homages to the legendary band’s studio albums. The Hall of Famer’s debut LP...
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The Flaming Lips – Lightning Strikes the Postman (RSD 2016)
This Record Store Day release is an alternate mix of the Clouds Taste Metallic album featuring ex-Flaming Lips guitarist, Ronald Jones. The same extraordinary madness that infected the best work of...
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Wire – Nocturnal Koreans (2016)
Now that their founding members are well into their 60s, you might expect a band to slow down, celebrate their heavily rested laurels, or maybe even try to recreate the highs from their nearly 40-year...
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Guided By Voices – Please Be Honest (2016)
Please Be Honest is, in all honesty, a Robert Pollard solo album. After reforming Guided by Voices‘ “classic line-up,” which lasted between 2012 and 2014 (a period in which they released a staggering...
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Skating Polly – The Big Fit (2016)
…Very rarely does a band come around that not only sounds like their heroes, but feels like them, releasing an album that could seemlessly be placed on the same shelf in a record collection featuring...
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The Scientists – Blood Red River EP (1983, Reissue 2015)
The “Seattle Sound” of the ’90s may have brought grunge to the masses, but there are those who believe it first came to fruition in Sydney in the ’80s. After trekking east from the suburbs of Perth to...
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Sealings – I’m a Bastard (2015)
Moody, minimalist, mal-illuminated… well yes, we may have been travelled this way before. Yet however derivative such disenfranchised narratives can appear, there’s something about this Brighton trio’s...
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Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool (2016)
After the mysterious leaflets, complete digital disappearing act, stop-motion video, and Paul Thomas Anderson collaboration, Radiohead have released their new album A Moon Shaped Pool. The band’s...
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Destruction Unit – Live in San Francisco (2015)
Whoever told you psychedelic music was supposed to be peaceful and contemplative clearly has never heard of Destruction Unit; powerfully lysergic and as gentle as a wrecking ball, Ryan Rousseau’s...
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Head Wound City – A New Wave of Violence (2016)
Honestly, it’s surprising that the Head Wound City reunion happened at all. Back in the mid ’00s, the band were but a blip in the careers of its members, who, after spending a week writing and...
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Sonic Youth – Bad Moon Rising (1985, Reissue 2015)
On their first LP Confusion Is Sex, Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore, and Lee Ranaldo established their reputation — noise-obsessed, acerbic, in thrall to subversion and half in love with nihilism. So it...
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Pinkwash – Collective Sigh (2016)
Comprised of longtime buds Joey Doubek and Ashley Arnwine, who collaborated previously in DC’s Mass Movement of the Moth and punk duo Ingrid, Pinkwash is the sound of two musicians lashing out with...
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The Scientists – A Place Called Bad (2016)
4CD, 80-track box set including the band’s complete studio output, live recordings (including a new-to-CD live set from 1983). Punk rock’s coming up from down under on the newest box set from The...
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Melvins – Basses Loaded (2016)
Now in their 29th year as a band, Melvins has released their new album Basses Loaded, and they still sound as vigorous and full of fresh material as they did as when they sprung out of the cold corner...
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Spray Paint – Punters On a Barge (2015)
There were two kids at high school back in the mid-‘80s who carried cans of spray paint like undercover cops brandished police ID, defacing everything from the doors of the school train to the desks in...
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The Unspeakable Practices – The Unspeakable Practices (2015)
The Unspeakable Practices is a new project spear- headed by Kid Millions (Oneida, People of the North, Soldiers of Fortune, ex-Spiritualized) and celebrated writer Rick Moody, a founding member of The...
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Swans – The Glowing Man (2016)
Following the unprecedented critical and commercial success of Swans‘ double-album masterworks The Seer and To Be Kind — the latter of which reached the Top 40 of both the U.S. and U.K. album charts —...
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