 ACRASSICAUDA
Take the number of metal bands who sing about war, death and destruction. Subtract it from the number of metal bands with personal experience of such matters. If you arrive at a number minus 345 billion then you've done the math correctly...more |
 ALMIGHTY DEFENDERS
In a world of Segways and wraparounds, some would say that all hope is lost. When Ipod DJ's get 3 x the money of most rock'n'roll bands, you could say if there is hell below - we're all gonna go...more |
 BLACK LIPS
Arabia Mountain, the sixth studio album and fourth Vice Records release by the Black Lips, finds the hell-raising Atlanta quartet digging deep into the roots of their exposed-nerve sound and simultaneously exploring surprising new possibilities in their music ...more |
 CHROMEO
Crossing the Gaza Strip of Sexxx Jams Chromeo is Pee Thug and Dave 1: best friends since their Montreal adolescence, virtuoso musicians, walking hip hop encyclopedias...more |
 GROWING
In 1999 Joe DeNardo moved into a house in Olympia, Washington. It just so happened that a musically inclined individual named Kevin Doria also lived there...more |
 GUCCI MANE & V-NASTY
BAYTL comes on the heels of Gucci Mane’s “massively entertaining and incredibly clunky” August collaboration with protégé Waka Flocka Flame, Ferrari Boyz ...more |
 JUSTICE
Emerging from the creative cocoon that has enveloped them since wrapping up promotional efforts for their 2007 Grammy-nominated debut †, Xavier de Rosnay & Gaspard Augé...more |
 KING KHAN AND THE SHRINES
Who is this manic Master of Ceremonies who openly confesses to the two grand black bohemians said to be lunatic Sun Ra and George Clinton...more |
 LULLABYE ARKESTRA
Lullabye Arkestra is Kat Taylor-Small and Justin Small. Brought together by love, they are bound by and to the music. It's music by lovers, for fighters...more |
 OFF!
LA-based punk/hardcore quartet formed in 2009 by Keith Morris (Black Flag/Circle Jerks), Dimitri Coats (Burning Brides), Mario Rubalcaba (Earthless/Hot Snakes/Rocket From the Crypt) and Steven McDonald (Redd Kross)...more |
 PIERCED ARROWS
To call Fred Cole a "living legend" is like saying, "Yes, and water is wet." A true frontiersman without peer, Fred has blazed his own sonic trail for over 45 years...more |
 THE RAVEONETTES
When you've had a cult fan base for as long as The Raveonettes have, it's only a
matter of time before some of your most-loyal of acolytes begin branching out and
make their own kinds of beautiful noise...more |
 THE STREETS
The first time people heard The Streets' Mercury Prize-nominated debut Original Pirate Material, they couldn't make their minds up whether the person making this music was black or white, from London or the Midlands, deadly serious or a total joker. We know who Mike Skinner is now (Or, at least, we think we know).more |
 WIN WIN
Win Win was born last year when XXXchange (founding SPANK ROCK member and producer) reached out to lifelong friend, Devlin, to help him start work on a new project. After months of working together, in spite of their strong backgrounds in the arts, the duo realized the
project lacked a much needed visual component, so they decided to bring in Ghostdad...more |
 120 DAYS
120 Days had its first rehearsal autumn 2001 in their small hometown, Kristiansund, on the northwest coast of Norway. The band consisted of the four 19 year old friends Jonas Dahl...more |
 BLOC PARTY
It was, thought Kele Okereke, good to be home. Bloc Party had been away on tour for almost two years. It had been a long time and a long way, but it was all great stuff...more |
 BOREDOMS
Of all the artists in Japan's thriving noise-music community, the Boredoms undoubtedly had the most fun. Although their maniacally extreme cacophony was by no means accessible listening...more |
 CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG
It is a measure of the extraordinary esteem in which she is held that Charlotte Gainsbourg, one of the brightest stars of modern French cinema...more |
 DARK MEAT
Combining such ludicrous and disparate sonic obsessions as Albert Ayler, Neil Young and Neu!, Athens Georgia's Dark Meat radiates a sound as layered, multivariable and insane as its improbable membership roll...more |
 DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979
"We wanted our band to be like an elephant in your living room," proclaimed Jesse F. Keeler, bassist of Toronto's Death From Above 1979. That could explain why they give themselves pachyderm trunks...more |
 FAVOURITE SONS
"This band exists to talk about the things you go through when you confront the big stuff: love, regret, fear," says Ken Griffin, the singer and principle songwriter of Favourite Sons...more |
 JAPANESE MOTORS
Japanese Motors are the most exciting band to emerge from Orange County since the heyday of Social Distortion and TSOL...more |
 PANTHERS
It's seemingly impossible to orchestrate a complete refinement in a band's sound these days. Fortunately, Panthers have returned from the sprawling highs of their 2004 LP Things Are Strange...more |
 THE STILLS
The hiss of tape may seem nostalgic in the land of digital recordings and MP3s, but for Montreal's The Stills it's more than an scratch from the distant past...more |
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