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Sonic Guide to…UK / US / Canada – Heavy Winged

Posted on April 7, 2010 by admin

MySpace Page Brooklyn/Portland unit Heavy Winged music brought them comparisons with anyone from Lightning Bolt to Bardo Pond. Dense, heavy and often ethereal, their music may not be exactly suited as a backdrop for a candlelight dinner with a loved one, but its quiet impressive nonetheless. Since their inception in 2004 the band produced numerous [...]

Stuff You Might’ve Missed – Xiu Xiu

Posted on February 20, 2010 by admin

MySpace Page Oakland, CA based Xiu Xiu (pronounced “shoe-shoe”) is a brainchild of California native Jamie Stewart, who is exploring all kinds of morbid subjects such as AIDS and suicide through his music. Stewart started out in music business by playing in “cinematic death mambo” band IBOPA and later, in Ten In The Swear Jar, [...]

Family Curse

Posted on February 12, 2010 by admin

MySpace Page With their brand of fractured rock’n’roll, heavy reliance on digital effects and (supposedly) grotesque lyrics / indecipherable vocals (courtesy of vocalist Megan Tweed), this Seattle trio brings to mind comparisons with the likes of now defunct Pain Teens and an obscure (but equally seizure-inducing) act Picasso Trigger . While not as innovative as [...]

Stuff You Might’ve Missed – Skullflower

Posted on February 11, 2010 by admin

Skullflower is a long-running band that include Matthew Bower – an extremely prolific musician from UK, who was also a member of such bands as Pure, Total and Hototogisu. Skullflower itself started out where some of his other projects ended in the late 80s. Musically, almost all of Bower’s project share his regard for all [...]

Stuff You Might’ve Missed – Pussy Galore

Posted on February 2, 2010 by admin

Pussy Galore were creating a new kind of Libertine rock by pissing on the corpse of whatever came before them – creaky ol’ blues, rattling garage punk., arena rawk, chug metal, droning industrial noise – all of it got chopped into unrecognizable bits by Spencer and fiends, and re-constructed later on, in a much more [...]

Sonic Youth Week – Dim Stars

Posted on December 24, 2009 by admin

Dim Stars was an early 90s project that brought together members of Sonic Youth and Richard Hell & The Voidoids. Trouser Press website referred to the band as “summit of post-punk hipster demi-gods”. The band released one EP and one self-titled album, never toured and disbanded after releasing one record in the early 90s. Trouser [...]

Sonic Youth Week – Free Kitten

Posted on December 23, 2009 by admin

Free Kitten was 90s indie rock supergroup, which brought together members of Sonic Youth, Pavement, Pussy Galore and Boredoms. While not meant to compete with any of their primary bands, FK still stuck around long enough to record a number of albums in the 90s and a reunion album entitled “Inherit”. The band (which initially [...]

Coil

Posted on December 20, 2009 by admin

Official Site MySpace Page Personal favorites of avant-garde cinema master Derek Jarman and Trent Reznor (who signed them to his label Nothing Records), Coil were a leading light of experimental, electronic and music community around the world. Throughout years, the band generated enough controversy due to their interest in the occult and exploration of taboo [...]

Phantom Family Halo

Posted on December 13, 2009 by admin

There’s a schizo tension to Family Halo’smusic born of the band’s dueling aesthetics. There are the noisy soundscapes that dominated the band’s earliest material, and which still hold a lot of sway, and then are the glamazon rock ‘n’ roll beat-downs that rise up with a great and terrible vengeance. – Courier Journal MySpace Page [...]

These Arms Are Snakes

Posted on December 12, 2009 by admin

The sort of postmodern hardcore your little sister will also like. If she has tattoos and / or piercings, is infatuated with Charles Manson, digs Richard Kern, prefers Johnny Depp to Brad Pitt and owns several records by bands that you don’t know anything about. – Monochrom Official Site Blog MySpace Page Seattle rockers TAAS [...]

Tusk / Pelican

Posted on December 12, 2009 by admin

Pelican – MySpace Page Tusk – MySpace Page Chicago, IL (and currently LA) based Pelican are one of the rising stars in the field of instrumental rock music (and probably one of the few bands who have a hamburger named after them). The band also shares its member with another (and a very different sounding) [...]

Russian Circles

Posted on December 10, 2009 by admin

Official Site MySpace Page RC is a Chicago, IL instrumental rock band that were formed out of ashes of another instrumental outfit called Dakota/Dakota. Since their formation in 2004, the band toured along with the likes of Mono, Pelican and Minus The Bear and they also opened for Tool during their UK tour in 2007. [...]

Animal Collective

Posted on December 9, 2009 by admin

The Animal Collective surprises with every turn. They combine an unlikely orchestra of sounds and their songs amble across structures instead of repeating them. After composing a short melody, they break it and walk away. Eight-minute songs might never hit a noticeable groove, but instead cloud the seas with drones and hollers. Along the way, [...]

World Domination Enterprises

Posted on December 8, 2009 by admin

Offcial Site MySpace Page Best known for their track “Asbestos Lead Asbestos” (which was covered by Meat Beat Manifesto in 1996), WDE were a noisy UK band (dubbed “psychobilly concrete” by Simon Reynolds) that was active from early to late 80s. They managed to separate themselves from the pack through their violent and abrasive guitar [...]

Stuff You Might’ve Missed – Aarktica

Posted on December 7, 2009 by admin

Aarktica is a way to “execute the soundtrack of life in mono… one of audio distortions, aural hallucinations and reliance on painkillers.” – Jon DeRosa Official Site Epitonic Page

Savage Republic

Posted on November 23, 2009 by admin

MySpace Page Trouser Press Entry Mobilization: The Savage Republic Story (Perfect Sound Forever) Employing such exotic instrumentation as oil drums and metal pipes, Savage Republic were a Los Angeles band whose live shows, according to witnesses, were something to behold. The band recorded a number of albums throughout the 80s, but broke up in the [...]