New Releases – Boris – Variations + Live In Japan (Daymare / Diwphalanx)

Posted on August 15, 2010 by admin

Format: CD / DVD A “greatest hits” collection from this Japanese band, which includes songs from the band’s six studio albums (“Akuma No Uta” / “Heavy Rocks” / “Pink” / “Rainbow” / “Mabuta No Ura” and “SMILE”) (many of them re-recorded), a b-side (“Floor Shaker”) and a live DVD. “Variations” also comes with a 24-page [...]

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Introducing…Pixel Deep

Posted on August 14, 2010 by admin

There’s a new blog in town and its name is…Pixel Deep! Its a replacement for an abandoned blog Video Gaming In Boston, which continues on the same subject, but the  focus is going to be on motion graphics and web design, not only video games. Please spread the word around and follow PD on Twitter.

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Gone In 60 Seconds – Mentions + Reviews

Posted on August 14, 2010 by admin

Taking that whole thing together is like listening to a good radio station for 43 minutes. You’ll smile, you rock out, you’ll say ‘what the hell is this?” – Jayson (To Eleven) Note – get the compilation on Bandcamp or download it directly from I Heart Noise Mentions: $10 Guitar Blue Sausage Infant – Official [...]

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IHRTN Time Machine – 2008 – February + May

Posted on August 14, 2010 by admin

Intro Biographies / Discographies / Videos Karp Brainiac Giddy Motors See Also > Karp on Encyclopedia Metallum

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Reading Room – Let It Blurt – The Life & Times Of Lester Bangs, America’s Greatest Rock Critic

Posted on August 13, 2010 by admin

Lately I’ve noticed a new wrinkle on the American landscape: it seems as if there’s a whole generation of kids, each one younger than the last, all of whom live, breathe and dream of but one desire: “I want to be a rock critic when I grow up!” If that sounds condescending let it be [...]

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Upcoming Releases – No Age – Everything In Between (Sub Pop) + hear their new single “Glitter”

Posted on August 12, 2010 by admin

“Everything In Between”, a third full-length by No Age is set for release on September 24th via Sub Pop. Recorded in Los Angeles from the end of 2009 and into 2010, Everything in Between is the new album from No Age, the duo of Dean Spunt and Randy Randall. They emerged from former band Wives [...]

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Gone In 60 Seconds – A-Z – Blue Sausage Infant

Posted on August 11, 2010 by admin

Download: Krackrock Get The Entire Compilation: Bandcamp / I Heart Noise Bio Blue Sausage Infant is the work of Chester Hawkins of Washington DC. For 24 years, BSI has produced music that combines aspects of noise, drone, krautrock, sample-plundering, dark ambient, and kosmische electronica to produce a multi-layered feast for the brain. In 2008, BSI [...]

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Download + Review – Top Surprise – Everything Must Go EP

Posted on August 11, 2010 by admin

Noise-pop from Brazil – sounds like a strange combo? Well, it may seem that way at first… But then it all makes sense – those guys (and one girl) must have studied their Dinosaur Jr. and Sonic Youth record for years, because the end result sounds awesome. They sure as hell know something about fazz/distortion [...]

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Download – Big City Orchestra – Consumer, FX Libraries and more

Posted on August 10, 2010 by admin

“Audio” section of BCO website offers a wealth of material from the band for download, including an mp3 version of their “Consumer” CD (over 100 renditions of radio and television commercial jingles from the 40′s to present and FX libraries that the band created. There’s also a link to the compilation “The Bent Life” (from [...]

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Gone In 60 Seconds – A-Z – Big City Orchestra

Posted on August 10, 2010 by admin

Their Track / Download: Raspberry (unreleased) Get The Entire Compilation: Bandcamp / I Heart Noise Bio Big City Orchestra is a long running art/anti-art group based generally in California. With an ever rotating cast of musician and nonmusician members. Formed in 1979 as house band for network of artist residences in the South Bay area [...]

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Events – ATP New York 2010 – Line-Up / Info

Posted on August 9, 2010 by admin

New York edition of this year’s All Tomorrow’s Parties festival will take place between September 3rd and 5th at Kutshers Country Club, Monticello, New York. Schedule for the festival looks the following way: Don’t Look Back Day (Friday, September 3rd) Iggy & The Stooges performing Raw Power Sleep performing Holy Mountain Mudhoney performing Superfuzz Bigmuff [...]

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Events – Sonic Circuits 2010

Posted on August 9, 2010 by admin

Sonic Circuits is an annual festival of experimental music, which takes place in Washington, DC.  This year’s edition of the festival will run from September 18 to September 25 and some of the featured artists include: Magma Illusion Of Safety Merzbow Controlled Bleeding Fennesz Keith Fullerton Whitman Expo 70 Richard Pinhas Blue Sausage Infant And [...]

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Upcoming Releases – Pale Sketcher – Jesu: Pale Sketches Demixed (Ghostly International)

Posted on August 9, 2010 by admin

Pale Sketcher is a new project of Justin K. Broadrick (Jesu / Techno Animal / Godflesh) and his debut under this moniker (an album of remixes of Jesu’s 2007 “Pale Sketches album) is going to come out on August 24th via Ghostly International label. For fans of heavy music, Justin K. Broadrick is a household [...]

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Upcoming Releases – Trumans Water – O Zeta Zunis (Asthmatic Kitty)

Posted on August 9, 2010 by admin

A new full-length by this long-running California band, which is scheduled for release on August 24th via Asthmatic Kitty label. Trumans Water never really went away. Scarce in their native land, yes — that, indeed, the veteran American “spazz-rock”/”squiggle-core” group has been in recent years. (Increasingly more obscure as well, relatively unknown to untold pods [...]

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Review Vault – Aeronautix, Funeral Club, Fitful

Posted on August 8, 2010 by admin

Aeronautix – Eartheption EP Although they describe themselves a “post-rock” band, this German trio produces something that avoids some of the usual cliches associated with the genre (at least judging by this little EP). Whereas many of post-rock records are anemic,  this one kicks in with a boot of steel and a lack of vocalist [...]

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Concert Review – Russian Circles/Cave In/Boris at Middle East (08/07)

Posted on August 7, 2010 by admin

Tonight’s show at the Middle East brought together a fairly diverse line-up – an instrumental/post-rock band from Chicago, hardcore band from Massachusetts and sludgy/noisy group from Japan named after Melvins song. So how did the three of them sounded? Read on…. Russian Circles – What started out as a rather standard post-rock set eventually turned [...]

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