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Akron/Family
... now roaming all over a wide, open space where antique folk balladry, primal drone and explosive improvisation meet and melt in a woodland psychedelia that answers an...
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Alexander Tucker
Alexander Tucker began as the vocalist in post-rock hardcore 5-piece Unhome who released one album A Short History of Houses (Unlabel) and a split...
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Angels Of Light
"Michael Gira is one of maybe ten people in the whole world who inspired me to pick up a guitar and try to write songs in the first...
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Apache
Signed by Birdman before even hearing one note and amidst broken limbs, Apache bring forth their first diamond – Boomtown Gems. Featuring...
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Bad Religion
New Maps of Hell, is Bad Religion’s new album marking the band and label's 25th anniversary. Having released new track ‘Honest Goodbye’ earlier...
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Bardo Pond
Philadelphia’s Bardo Pond return in June 2006 with Ticket Crystals – their sixth studio album and second for ATP Recordings. Completing a trilogy of work – first...
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Bilge Pump
Bilge Pump have a disturbing ability to be better than any band they play with. Imagine a boiling-over bastard concoction of all the...
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Birds of Avalon
“Led by a pair of guitarists who seem, by sheer force, to be powering their amplifiers rather than the other way around, Birds of Avalon make thunderous, precise rock...
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Clockcleaner
Loud and ugly brawl rock hailing from the City of Brotherly Love. Clockcleaner is a three piece mixing a hateful stew of wiry hard rock suitable for...
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Comets On Fire
After 2004's critically acclaimed Blue Cathedral, one might have expected Comets on Fire to blast off into the cosmos in an infinite flurry of lysergic spasmodicism. Surprising,...
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Crystal Antlers
“This is Crystal Antlers, and they sound to these ears like bratty young brothers of Comets On Fire – ie totally hotwired and fried psychedelic punks – only with...
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Dead Child
Upon first glance at its gruesome exterior, Dead Child appears to be a new creation. However, its jagged roots extend deep into the past, with a history...
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Desalvo
HAILING FROM the darkest enclave in Glasgow, DESALVO deal in the kind of feral punk rock that takes no prisoners and blows away...
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Do the Pop!
2002's acclaimed collection 'Do The Pop! The Australian Garage Rock Sound 1976-87' returns in February 2008 on Savage Beat! Records though Shock/ Forte...
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envy
“Impressive in a way more cerebral post-rock has long ceased to be” Uncut
“Outstanding” Kerrang
Since 1992,
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Fuck Buttons
Fuck Buttons came to life in Bristol by Andrew Hung & Benjamin John Power in the winter of 2004. Initially the group was born as an outlet for...
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Fucking Champs
It is oft opined that to the victor go the spoils; truly then, the world belongs to the Champs. The Fucking Champs, that is. In the four years since the release of V, they have...
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Fursaxa
This is the fifth full-length release from West Philly-based solo artist Tara Burke aka Fursaxa who boasts a fan base with the likes of Bardo Pond, Acid Mothers Temple and...
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Ghost
IN STORMY NIGHTS is Ghost’s ninth full length release for Drag City and contains over an hour’s-worth of music and sound in which the band apply their trademark...
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GOD
“GOD'S Rock 'n' Roll is the screeching of the dragon, the rumbling of the volcano, the insane chatter of machinery. Sean, Joel, Tim and Matthew. Four guys united by the...
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Harmful
The seventh album. 2007. A clear statement, no more or less than necessary. HARMFUL (Aren Amirze: guitar, vox, Nico Heimann: drums, Chris Aidonopoulos: bass, Billy Gould: guitar)...
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Heads
Bristol psychedelic noise purveyors, Kraut rock obscurist obsessives and Stoogian riff worshippers The Heads kick-start a whole slew of deluxe
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Health
“Just imagine the world reaching the end of its tri-millennial life-cycle and imploding again. Dark? Now just imagine rhythm. Primal, learning, glittering...
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Hermano
“When Hermano say rock music, they mean rock music “ Kerrang Following the release of last year’s ‘Live at W2’ album. Hermano return...
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High On Fire
'Imagine a dream combination of Motorhead, Venom and Celtic Frost laying waste to all-comers… this is just what the devil ordered.' Mojo 'The...
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Howlin Rain
After 2006, it was uncertain if there would be another Howlin Rain record. Well, at least in the mind of the musical world at large.
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Hunches
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Jack Rose
“inspired” Mojo
“one of this century’s finest guitar players” The Wire
“engrossing” Uncut
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James Orr Complex
Scotland via Sao Paulo isn’t a route most artists take, but the James Orr Complex are something rather different. The brainchild of Christopher Mack, frontman of eclectic...
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Jay Reatard
By now, Jay Reatard should be known to most everyone paying any attention to this whole indie/punk/pop/garage/ shitgaze/blahblahblah....
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Jesu
J.K. Broadrick triumphantly returns with his second, and quite appropriately titled,
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Jubilee
Jubilee is a new rock n’ roll band from Los Angeles, California, featuring the collective talents of Aaron North (Nine Inch Nails, The Icarus Line)...
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Kelley Stoltz
Circular Sounds is the fourth LP from San Francisco’s home recording auteur Kelley Stoltz. Its 13 songs are a stereophonic advance...
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King Khan
A Note from JARED SWILLEY of THE BLACK LIPS The first time I crossed paths with King Khan and the Shrines was on a cold foggy day in London. The gloomy weather was fitting as...
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Kinski
“like Sabbath in a washing machine during a power surge” NME
“this controlled bedlam is just the thing for fans of the similarly explosive,...
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Kites
Kites is a one-man organic sturm and scowl with this fourth record for LOAD. Following 2006’s Peace Trials esblend of campfire informed Wilheim...
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Kling Klang
Rock Action Records are pleased to announce that after 3 long years Kling Klang’s ‘The Esthetik Of Destruction’ album is set for release on November 13th 2006....
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Kultur Shock
Kultur Shock’s members hail from Bosnia, Bulgaria, Japan, and the United States, but the complexity only begins there. Their hometown of Seattle seems to be one of the only...
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Ladyfinger (ne)
Ladyfinger (NE) are pounding, squealing, rabid, feral. A man with a classic rock voice that melts the cockles like butter on a biscuit. Heavy Hands. But because this...
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Larkin Grimm
“Grimm sounds at various times wild-eyed and placid, witchy and innocent.... She is best when she submits to her many eccentricities, manifested through bodily fixated...
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Lightning Bolt
Year 1995. Initially it was a drums, bass and effected vocals
lineup (Brian Gibson - bass, Brian Chippendale - drums, Hisham
Bharoocha - vocals). . Sounding kinda like a...
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Loop
“In the second half of the 1980’s Loop were one of a trio of English groups who used a blueprint of ‘69 influenced pyschedelia to create something...
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Lords
“Sabbath-goes-Beefheart through a prog-rock mincer… wickedly enjoyable” Drowned in Sound
Following a slew of EPs and...
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Love As Laughter
Sam Jayne is a specific breed of classic songwriter: strong-willed,
surefooted and unstoppable, particularly when he has the sovereignty to
work within his own creative space....
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Mi and L'Au
We have recently finished recording an album by Mi and L'au here in
Brooklyn. I, Michael Gira co-produced it with them. It turned out very
lovely indeed. It was a privilege to...
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Michael Yonkers with the Blind Shake
Farm Girl Records are very proud to present Carbohydrates Hydrocarbons from Michael Yonkers and the Blind Shake. Yonkers, who has been...
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Mike Bones
“Mikey Bones delivers on the promise of a Jerz dude channeling pure insight.” – Matt Sweeney
“Mike Bones is the rare instrumentalist who...
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Monotonix
Monotonix are a punk trio from Tel Aviv, featuring guitar (Yonatan), drums (Ran) and vocals (Ami). They formed in November 2005, set up...
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Mouthus
Brooklyn-based duo, Mouthus - Brian Sullivan and Nate Nelson - have crafted a considerable body of work since forming in 2002. With a multitude of...
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Mudhoney
It took a wall socket for Mudhoney to happen. They came from the old, weird Seattle looking damp and strange; beer-swilling jackals...
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My Morning Jacket
Formed in 1998 in Louisville Kentucky and named after a coat lead singer Jim James found in the ashes of his favourite bar after it burned down, My...
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No Age
No Age: the name alone suggests multiple meanings and possible interpretations — timeless, ageless, anonymous, free from...
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O'death
New York quintet (Greg Jamie - vocals/guitars; Gabe Darling - vocals/multi-instrumentalist, Bob Pycior - fiddle, Newman - bass and David Rogers-Berr - drums) O’Death’s...
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Omar Rodriguez Lopez
Omar Rodriguez Lopez's Old Money is the first album that The Mars Volta guitarist/producer/writer/arranger will release with Stones Throw Records. The addictive melodies and...
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PG Six
Pat Gubler first appeared on the New York music scene in 1994, as a member of Memphis Luxure, a noise-rock band from Port Chester that...
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Pissed Jeans
The Straight World is a shallow, boring, soul-sucking vortex. This is where most folks spend their quiet, desperate lives. Working to consume, consuming to achieve status....
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Ponytail
We first witnessed PONYTAIL live, it was impossible to restrain ourselves. Their music was total spastic bliss. A complete sugar high...
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Remember Remember
Based in Glasgow, Scotland Remember Remember (AKA has been playing elaborately staged shows in and around the city for the past few years, originally the solo project of Graeme...
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Rio En Medio
Rio En Medio’s debut album, The Bride of Dynamite is an intricate collage of layered vocals, delicately...
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Scientists
You could put on a Scientists record from this period and not know it was 23 years old! The Scientists might’ve been overlooked...
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Sightings
Bass, drum and guitars meshed together with a synthetic twine envisioned in future think tanks. Literally the sound of human progress darkened with a profound fidelity so loud the...
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Silver Jews
A new Silver Jews record so soon! What have we done in life to earn it? Just living is enough. Here’s your guided tour to the...
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Singer
Singer is the rock band peopled by Robert A. A. Lowe, Todd Rittmann, Adam Vida and Ben Vida. Their music has two guitars, bass and some drums, plus...
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Sir Richard Bishop
Is Sir Richard Bishop just another virtuoso or something more powerful, like a magus or sorcerer? It’s hard to tell through the mystic fields that...
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Six Organs of Admittance
It’s been an exhilarating year of life for Ben Chasny, the heraldic presence behind Six Organs of Admittance, alternately thrilling and trying as...
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Soeza
7 Obstacles is the third album from Soeza - Chris Cole (drums/cello/ percussion), Dan Cornfield (french horn/percussion), Ben Owen...
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Sontaran Experiment
“There’s no-one left but us”
There’s more to music than just a quick fix, instant gratification and credibility measured in friend...
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Souvaris
“[Souvaris are] a lovely breath of fresh air for a genre that often feels exceedingly stagnant […] it takes time to unravel the arrangements that Souvarisa have...
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Steve Turner
Mudhoney guitar slinger Steve Turner is back with a new record, “New Wave Punk Asshole”, with his gang - Steve Turner...
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TAKE A WORM FOR A WALK WEEK
Take a Worm for Walk Week (Joe Quimby – vocals; Johnathan Docherty – guitars; Johnathan Scott – drums and Iain Quimby – bass) are set to release their...
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The Dillinger Escape Plan
A long time ago, someone said, “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.” Chances are that dude is dead (actually, it was Nietzche and he’s been dead for...
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The Dirtbombs
We Have You Surrounded is an album broadly focused on the theme of urban paranoia. Whether it's via the straight-forward grime rock of "I Hear the...
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The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Formed in 1991 after the demise of Jon Spencer’s seminal hatefuck band Pussy Galore, the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion has always included drummer...
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The Locust
Welcome to the beginning of the end. Here's your soundtrack….
Aided by Alex Newport's clean, confident production,...
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The PoPo
The PoPo have already been credited with inventing the “post-hip hop” genre, and are indeed the style’s premier band. That’s quite a feat considering...
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USSA
U.S.S.A, helmed by two of hard rock/industrial music’s most influential players, Jesus Lizard guitarist Duane Denison and Ministry bass player Paul...
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Vivian Girls
“The Vivian Girls drop sweet girl-group melodies into proto-shoegaze squalls the way the Jesus & Mary Chain used to and the way groups like the Aislers Set, C86s-ers the...
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Ween
The first full length Ween album in four years, La Cucaracha contains 13 brand new tracks – even ‘Friends’...
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White Magic
The NEW release from WHITE MAGIC is the “DARK STARS” EP, out on Drag City. In our galaxy, small regions of space...
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Wires On Fire
Wires On Fire (Evan Weiss – vocals/ guitar, Michael Shuman: Bass and Vocals. Jeff Lynn: Guitar, Darren Weiss: Drums and...
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Wolf Eyes
When we last checked in with Wolf Eyes two years ago, the band had just released their Sub Pop debut Burned Mind to a stunned world. Burned Mind, preceded by the vicious single...
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Wooden Shjips
Wooden Shjips drums (Omar Ahsanuddin), bass (Dusty Jermier), organ (Nash Whalen), guitar (Erik "Ripley" Johnson) are a vital...
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Woven Hand
In the words of Robert Browning, Wovenhand heralds "another greater, wilder country" on TEN STONES, the new album by musician David Eugene Edwards (also frontman of...
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Yeasayer
Yeasayer will release a brand new version of ‘Wait For the Summer' b/w a previously unreleased live favourite...
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Yellow Swans
At All Ends is the third record in the Yellow Swans vast body of work. This record is an assured record of chiming drone and heady...
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