November 5, 2024

Artist of the week: Pylon Reenactment Society

September 29, 2017 Mike D 0

Guaranteed: This is a special one and important! Pylon Reenactment Society formed from the ashes of Pylon, a band among the most influential from Athens, Georgia, where the frontrunners of the scene–The B-52’s and R.E.M.–called home. It

The Horrors – Weighed Down

September 26, 2017 Mike D 0

UK’s London based alternative modern rockers The Horrors released their new Valbum last month. It’s their sixth 10-track LP (12 in the Japanese version) in a decade where the band succeeded to rock the continents

Symbion Project — Bloodthirsty

September 25, 2017 Mike D 0

Symbion Project, the personal vehicle of the electronic composer/producer Kasson Crooker, will be releasing the Bloodthirsty single on October 20 (first appeared in the Arcadian LP). Though a strange title for an indietronic song that

PLAYLIST: PZYK Liverpool Psych Fest

September 20, 2017 Mike D 0

This coming Friday and Saturday (22-23 September), Liverpool UK is the place to vanish in psychedelia, PZYK is the festival that will destroy you. It kicks into overdrive celebrating artists operating at the cutting edge of today’s

VIDEO: ‘It’s All Noise’

September 19, 2017 Jonathan Rose 0

We’ve been playing around with layered images in After Effects, and came up with this new promo video. Featuring still images from protests we’ve been involved in and artists we write about, the production of

DF — Patience

September 19, 2017 Jonathan Rose 0

Montreal audiovisual duo DF is out with abcdf–a new EP of skewed-jazz sax sounds accompanied by avant-garde visuals, and led by the album’s second single, Patience. Patience, we’re told, is secretly inspired by an Aphex Twin track,

Trisomie 21 — Alice

September 19, 2017 Mike D 0

On September 14, brothers Philippe and Herve Lomprez–the acknowledged and most respected French (Lille) post punk act Trisomie 21–released their new single, Alice. T 21 started their course back in the early eighties and though some people

Artist of the Week: 68creep

September 13, 2017 Mike D 1

Summer ends in September?! Nope, and this Artist Of The Week is damn hot! Started a couple of years ago in New York, the band is like all these rock ‘n’ roll darlings who know

Gel-Sol — Horse Head Bookends

September 12, 2017 Jonathan Rose 0

Horse Head Bookends opens with a door opening. Footsteps echo through a room. The door shuts behind the figure we are soon to discover is a mad phonic scientist. An amp fires up and tools

PREMIERE: Courtney Farren–Nothing Like It

September 5, 2017 Mike D 0

New York singer-songwriter Courtney Farren just released the first single/video of her debut album of the same name–Nothing Like It.  This six-track LP features guitar and piano songs recorded this past spring, and officially releases 6 October. New

PREMIERE: Discolor Blind–Long Vivid Dream

September 5, 2017 Mike D 0

Discolor Blind, a new band from Montreal, relased their debut EP on September 1 via Republic of Music. Long Vivid Dream is a 5 track record of alternative music–alternative in its trip hop style, and electronic! The