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Album Reviews

Mat Ball: Amplified Guitar

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Post date June 30, 2022
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Mat Ball (photo credit: Stacy Lee)

Tags BIG | BRAVE, Efrim Manuel Menuck, Evil Greed, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Lingua Ignota, Mat Ball, Obscura MFG, Seth Manchester, Sunn O))), The Body, The Garrote

News

The Lord + Petra Haden announce new collaboration album

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Post date June 29, 2022
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The Lord + Petra Haden - (photo credits: Al Overdrive (The Lord) and Steven Perilloux (Petra Haden)

Tags Engine Kid, Goatsnake, Greg Anderson, Ian Astbury, Petra Haden, Southern Lord, Sunn O))), the cult, The Lord

Album Reviews

Crime of Passing: Crime of Passing

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Post date June 29, 2022
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Crime of Passing (photo credit: from the artist's Bandcamp page)

Tags Andie Luman, Brad Kennedy, Chuck Walden, Crime Of Passing, Dakota Carlyle, Dylan McCartney, Feel It Records, Future Shock Recordings, joy division, Kathleen Hanna, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Total Control

Album Reviews

Space Between Clouds: Space Between Clouds

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Post date June 28, 2022
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Space Between Clouds (photo credit: Sam Johnson)

Tags Anna von Hauswolff, Beck, Cat Power, Charlotte Gainsbourg, David Ralicke, Devendra Banhart, John Cale, Kenneth James Gibson, M83, Paul McCartney, Sons Of Kemet, Space Between Clouds, Sunn O))), The Drift

Albums Features

Label Watch: Cruel Nature Records

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Post date June 27, 2022
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Cruel Nature Records

Features Live

Escaping Reality: Primavera Sound 2022

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Post date June 24, 2022
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Primavera Sound 2022

Tags bauhaus, Beach House, Caribou, Cigarettes After Sex, Dinosaur Jr., Dua Lipa, Einstürzende Neubauten, Frank Sinatra, Gorillaz, High on Fire, IDLES, Interpol, J. Mascis, Jehnny Beth, Jenny Hval, Kim Gordon, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Konrad Sprenger, Les Savy Fav, Leyland James Kirby, Lou Barlow, Low, Matt Pike, Moin, Natalie Mering, Oren Ambarchi, Otoboke Beaver, Parquet Courts, Pavement, Phillip Sollmann, Pile, Pond, Primavera A La Ciutat, Primavera Sound, ride, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Sharon Van Etten, Shellac, slowdive, Tame Impala, The Armed, The Caretaker, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Smile, The Strokes, The Weather Station, Thom Yorke, Tim Harrington, Tropical Fuck Storm, Tyler The Creator, weyes blood, Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Album Reviews

Winged Wheel: No Island

Winged Wheel (photo credit: from the artist's Bandcamp page).

Tags 12XU, Cory Plump, Drag City, Expensive Shit, Fred Thomas, Idle Ray, Matchess, Matthew Rolin, Moin, Powers/Rolin Duo, Spray Paint, Tyvek, Whitney Johnson, Winged Wheel

Album Reviews

Water Damage: Repeater

Water Damage (photo credit: via the artist's Bandcamp page)

Tags 12XU, Divide And Dissolve, George Dishner, Greg Piwonka, Jeff Piwonka, Mike Kanin, Nate Cross, Thor Harris, Travis Austin, Water Damage

Interviews

Apollo Ghosts Interview: “Truth and honesty is everything in art”

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Post date June 20, 2022
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Apollo Ghosts (photo credit: via the artist's Facebook page)

News

Goatsnake announce reissue of debut LP

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Post date June 17, 2022
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Goatsnake (photo credit: Lisa Johnson)

Tags Goatsnake, Greg Anderson, Greg Rogers, Guy Pinhas, Man's Ruin Records, Pete Stahl, Scream, Southern Lord, Sunn O))), Wool

Album Reviews

Horsegirl: Versions of Modern Performance

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Post date June 17, 2022
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Horsegirl (photo credit: via the artist's Facebook page)

Tags Asher Case), Breeders, Duquette Johnston, FACS, Gigi Reece, Holy Sons, Horsegirl, Isaac Lowenstein, John Agnello, Lifeguard, Matador, Mission of Burma, Nora Cheng, Penelope Lowenstein, Shellac

Album Reviews

Quiet Sonia: Wild and Bitter Fruits EP

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Post date June 16, 2022
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Quiet Sonia

Tags Anders Meyer, Broken Social Scene, Forever), Frida Rolskov Pedersen, Jens Marl Christiansen, Nikolaj Bruus, Phillip Dyssegaard, Pink Cotton Candy Records, Quiet Sonia, Rasmus Jon Lundager, Rhythmic Music Conservatory of Copenhagen, Robbie Basho, Schultz, The Raveonettes Sharin Foo, Thea Thorborg Pedersen, Tim Buckley, Ydegirl

13 Questions

13 Questions with Kamikaze Nurse

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Post date June 14, 2022
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Kamikaze Nurse (photo credit: Dennis Ha)

Tags Andrew MacGregor Marshall, Breeders, Deerhoof, Ethan Reyes, Greg Saunier, John Brennan, Kamikaze Nurse, KC Wei, Liu Cixin, Mint Records, Peter Sloterdijk, Philip K. Dick, Sonic Youth, Sonya Eui

Features Interviews

Mondkopf Interview: “I would take a Robbie Basho album to a desert island”

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Post date June 2, 2022
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Mondkopf

Tags Daniel Bachman, Erik K. Skodvin, Miashma Recordings, Mondkopf, Nahal Recordings, Norman Westberg, Oiseaux-Tempête, Paul Régimbeau, Robbie Basho, Sarah Davachi, Stéphane Pigneul, Swans, The Necks, Tony Buck, Wilburn Burchette

Albums Features

Sun 13’s Albums Quarterly #6

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Post date June 1, 2022
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Photo credit: original images taken from respective artists' Bandcamp pages.

Album Reviews

R. Denham: Orphaned Machines

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Post date May 31, 2022
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R. Denham (photo credit: original image via the artist's Bandcamp page)

Tags Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Natalie Wardle, PX4M0008, R. Denham, VHS¥DEATH

Album Reviews

Haress: Ghosts

Haress (photo credit: via the artist's Bandcamp page)

Tags Chris Summerlin, dAVID hAND, David Smyth, Elizabeth Still, Grey Hairs, Haress, hey colossus, Kling Klang, Mind Mountain, Sweet Williams, Thomas House, Wrong Speed Records

Album Reviews

RLYR: RLYR

RLYR (photo credit: Michael Vallera)

Tags Bloodiest, Chord, Cleared, Colin DeKuiper, Locrian, Pelican, RLYR, Sanford Parker, Steve Hess, Trevor Shelley de Brauw

Album Reviews

Golden Apples: Golden Apples

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Post date May 26, 2022
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Golden Apples (photo credit: Emily Burtner)

Albums Features

Label Watch: Trouble In Mind Records

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Post date May 25, 2022
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Trouble In Mind