• New Video: MOCAtv Debuts The Art of Punk with Crass

  MOCAtv‘s The Art of Punk featuring Crass is available for streaming today! MOCAtv is the on-line extension of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and they were one of YouTube’s first and only dedicated art channels, as well as being a part of YouTube Education. The Art of Punk documentary series has been created by Bryan Ray Turcotte (Fucked [...]

  

• New Video: Fuck Buttons “The Red Wing”

  Fuck Buttons‘ third LP Soft Focus comes out July 22 on ATP Recordings. The UK duo released an edited version of the track “The Red Wing” last month via Soundcloud, and it’s already reached over 190,000 plays. Look for the full version of the track to come out as a limited edition, gold vinyl 12″ June 25th, with the B-side [...]

  

• New Video: Shabazz Palaces “An Echo from the Hosts that Profess Infinitum”

  Shabazz Palaces dip back into to 2011′s excellent LP Black Up (Sub Pop) with this menacing new video for an “An Echo from the Hosts that Profess Infinitum“, directed by Joris Grelet. Everything about this track is unsettling and Gelet’s portraits of highly stylized assassins wielding swords, daggers, and molotov cocktails is right on. Conjuring up the mystical assassin Hassan [...]

  

• Out Soon: Spectrals ‘Sob Story’ LP on Slumberland

  Spectrals‘ newest LP Sob Story comes out tomorrow on Slumberland. Yorkshire resident Louis Jones began the solo project in 2009, releasing several singles before recruiting his bother Will to play drums. The young gents would go on to sign with Slumberland/Witchita Recordings in 2011, releasing their debut LP Bad Penny that same year. For the up-coming LP Louis and Will [...]

• New Photos: Iceage @ The Earl In Atlanta

  We have new photos of Denmark’s punk-savants Iceage, from their recent tour stop at The Earl in Atlanta, Ga…The quartet is currently wrapping up a North American tour in support of their latest Matador Records release You’re Nothing. On this night, the group delivered a powerful, messy performance with vocalist Elias Bender Rønnenfelt letting loose charismatic fits of aggressive energy [...]

  

• New Track: Shigeto “Detroit Part 1″

  As Shigeto‘s new track “Detroit Part 1” would seem to reference, the electronic musician has recently moved from Brooklyn to the Motor City. This cut is the first single from his up-coming LP No Better Time Than Now, due out August 20th on Ghostly International. Using a fresh, expressive style, sick arsenal of rapier-sharp beats, and his talent for creating [...]

  

• New Video: Low “Plastic Cup”

  Low‘s probably one of the few bands that could sing a line like, “Now they make you piss into a plastic cup/give it up”, and with Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parkermake‘s lovely harmonies, have it still sound pretty. The band turned twenty years old this year, which means in human years they’re just now approaching drinking age. However, in rock-n-roll [...]

• Out Now: After Dark 2

  Don’t forget to download your copy of After Dark 2, the outstanding Italians Do It Better label compilation featuring tracks from Glass Candy, Chromatics, Mirage, Appaloosa, Farah and more! Nearly five years in the making, After Dark 2 is a sonic reminder of why IDIB is still one of the finest purveyors of lip glossed space-disco and future aged electro-funk. [...]

  

• New Track: Big Black Cloud “Cities of the Red Night”

  Need a fix of sonic trash for your ears? Well, the Portland noise-punks Big Black Cloud might be just the brand of filth you’re looking for! The band’s current line-up has been pared down to a trio with Nick Capello on guitar and vocals, Soo Koelbli on bass and vocals, and Travis Wainwright on drums. While the band currently resides [...]

  

• New Track: Soft Metals “In The Air”

  The electronic duo Soft Metals will release their new LP Lenses July 16th via Captured Tracks. Ian Hicks and Patricia Hall are originally from Portland, OR, but currently reside in Los Angeles. A quick perusal of their Facebook page shows their personal interests are in the right place…Pro One, Juno 60, Juno 106, Jupiter 4, TR-808, TR-707, Micro Moog-to list [...]

  

Other News

New Video: Pure X “Thousand Year Old Child”

Pure X has found the perfect star for their new “Thousand Year Old Child” video, directed by Malcolm Elijah! Folks, meet Bob Olson. Bob has followed an interesting “career” path, to say the least. While a still a teenager in the 60′s, Olson fell in serious love with Italian cinema, idolizing the famous actor Marcello Mastroianni. In 1969, he would [...]

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by iggypot / on June 13, 2013 at 8:37 am /

New Video: Peals “Blue Elvis”

Last month we took a look at the swirling delights of Peals‘ video for “Belle Aire“, directed by Zoe Friedman. The Baltimore duo of William Cashion (Future Islands) and Bruce Willen (Double Dagger) also released their debut LP Walking Field on Thrill Jockey this past May, and now we have their video for the track “Blue Elvis“. George Trimm directs, [...]

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by iggypot / on June 12, 2013 at 5:52 pm /

New Track: Smith Westerns “Idol”

Smith Westerns return June 25th with a new LP, Soft Will, coming out on Mom+Pop. After playing over 140 shows in support of 2011′s Dye It Blonde (Fat Possum), the Chicago trio which features brothers Cullen and Cameron Omori, as well as Max Kakacek, returned home to begin writing their follow-up LP. Soft Will was recorded in August of 2012 [...]

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by Anita Fang / on June 12, 2013 at 9:51 am /

New Video: Hebronix “Viral”

This past Spring Daniel Blumberg left Yuck to concentrate on releasing his own music, and now we know his new project Hebronix will put out the Unreal LP via ATP Recordings on July 9th. In talking with Drew Fortune of Interview Magazine, Blumberg explains that he grew tired of playing the same songs in the same way night after night, [...]

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by iggypot / on June 11, 2013 at 6:04 pm /

New Video: Washed Out “It All Feels Right”

Washed Out returns August 13th with his new LP Paracosm (Sub Pop). For the new record Ernest Greene and his wife moved from Atlanta to a house on the edge of Athens, and using the more isolated and rural environs Greene immersed himself in recording his new work. Utilizing over fifty different instruments for Paracosm, the artist was especially drawn [...]

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by iggypot / on June 11, 2013 at 9:14 am /

New Album: Dreamdecay ‘NV NV NV’

Seattle punks Dreamdecay have released their newest long-player via Iron Lung Records. On NV NV NV, the band brings the noise-rock in weird and unsettling ways, channeling such acts as Swans, Jesus Lizard or Pissed Jeans. You can listen to the reverb heavy, no-wave vibe of the track “CEILINVG FAN“, as well as other demented cuts from the album, below. [...]

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by John Gow / on June 10, 2013 at 10:15 am /

New Video: Sic Alps “Biz Bag”

New video from Sic Alps this week for “Biz Bag“, which is off the band’s current 12″ release, She’s On Top (Drag City). Looks like the Alps are working to complete a video trifecta, one for each of the tracks on the new 12″, and William Francis-Bashore Keihn returns to direct this 60′s-styled number. Keihn matches the record’s vintage feel [...]

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by iggypot / on June 9, 2013 at 9:20 am /