noise

  • 2012

    Walk On Heads EP by Lower While music’s tendency to reuse and recontextualize elements from the past prevents any genre from truly dying, the post-punk revivalism coming out of Scandinavia in the last few years could impress even the most cynical post-punk fan. Alongside compatriots like Iceage and War,

  • 2012

    Pop. 1280 put out a new music video directed by Jacqueline Castel, and all the lyrical references come together like a disturbing and horrifying puzzle. Yes, my review of the band’s latest album, the Horror, acknowledged the music’s dark, gritty edge; however, I never would have figured that

  • On their latest album, Maryland band Dope Body blends the sounds of hardcore punk, funk, noise, hard rock, and sludge metal. Then they turn it into a party. WATCH THE REVIEW

  • 2012

    Squarepusher drops another track from his forthcoming album on Warp Records, Ufabulum. It’s set to drop next week. You can catch Tom Jenkinson going into detail about this new album, his art, and music in general in this new mini-documentary produced by the Creator’s Project.

  • aeterna

    AETERNA (2012) by Black Swan To those of you who prefer their ambient music as dark and eerie as possible, allow me to direct your attention to the experimental drone project Black Swan. I’ve heard plenty of artists toy with “dark ambient” music with underwhelming results, mostly at the

  • Some dark and noisy sounds coming off this newly released Nihiti track, “My Fantasy Has Gone Too Far.” I’m not sure what the specifics of this fantasy are, but it sounds pretty twisted from the industrial combination of bang-clang percussion unsettling synth drones. Check out the previous track to

  • White Suns approach to noise rock is more noise than rock, reminding me what exactly it is that makes the genre so unique. WATCH THE REVIEW

  • 2012

    Ursus Americanus by Author & Punisher Producer, multi-instrumentalist, and sound engineer Tristan Shone hasn’t been releasing music under his Author & Punisher monicker for very long. To my knowledge, 2010’s Drone Machines is the only full-length album to his name other than this new one which is being

  • 2012

    Black Pus, which is the side-project pseudonym for Lightning Bolt drummer Brian Chippendale, drops a new track along with a huge recpord on his current tour with Buck Gooter and Mounds. This track is hard as hell, I gotta tell ya. Not only does it go on for twelve minutes,

  • album

    Death Grips releases visuals for “I’ve Seen Footage,” which is one of the lead singles from the California-based experimental hip hop duo’s new album, the Money Store. The album is looking at an April 24th release date, but the album is currently streaming on SoundCloud and YouTube.