• alien

    A new video from Deerhoof for the track “Secret Mobilization,” which I remember reminded me of Steppenwolf a lot when I reviewed the band’s latest album, Deerhoof vs. Evil. I vividly remember Deerhoof winning that battle, too! Moral of the story: Never put an alien you think is dead

  • Shot by the good people at i-D Magazine, here’s a live session with one of the darkest singer-songwriters I’ve come across this year, Chelsea Wolfe. This video features several live incarnations of tracks from her latest album, which you can watch a review of right here. Enjoy the

  • awake

    New video from Trash Talk, featuring a song from the hardcore punk band’s forthcoming EP, Awake. It’ll be out on True Panther Sounds on October 11th. Video directed by the High 5 Collective. /via/

  • — by Black Spires Some dark, loud, and noisy rock ‘n’ roll on this new Black Spires demo set. Download it for free at Bandcamp or here. Scope the cover art below. /via/

  • ambient

    Polish musician Michal Jacaszek will be dropping a new album on Ghostly this December, and I’m really hoping this new LP–titled Glimmer–will maintain the wintery feel the track above seems to proclaim so proudly. “Dare-gale,” armed with loads of classical timbres, drones ominously in waves of sound

  • I think the first time I ever heard of post-hardcore outfit La Dispute was in a blogTV. Someone had sent me a song to be reviewed, I played it, and a majority of reactions were pretty negative. I think mine was especially bad. It had to be at least a

  • Landlocked State by Teenage Cool Kids Hailing from Denton, Texas, Teenage Cool Kids are a band that have a lot of fun things going for them: rough presentation, catchy melodies, slacker attitude, amusing lyrics. Of course, this is no surprise since one of the band’s members is Fergus &

  • 80s

    Featuring a good friend of mine, Derek Ljongquist, this review is on the sophomore Big Troubles album, Romantic Comedy. It’s out now on Slumberland Records and sounds like a well-produced and feel-good piece of throwback jangle pop. Stream or download the audio review below. What do you think of

  • “Into Oblivion” “As Dawn Breaks” Sweden’s Entrench is plays a raw, aggressive, unadulterated breed of thrash metal that was lost in translation as the genre evolved over the decades. This band’s take on thrash really is pure. They combine it with nothing at all–not even modern production

  • 333

    C3 by 3:33 From the looks of 3:33’s album artwork, you’d think this project was some sort of rising black metal band. Well, if the previous sentence didn’t already make it obvious, that’s not the case. Still, the music 3:33 creates is undeniably