
"My mother had a great eclectic record collection along with a powerful hi-fi system. She had a Technics 1200, big-ass Marantz receiver/amp, and massive Advent speakers. She used to blast everything from Willie Nelson to Black Sabbath. She had a great ear, and like to spend a little more for “chrome” cassettes, and special “half-speed mastered” audiophile edition LPs when available." "My first record player was a monophonic Wildcat, and mother bought me Beatles, Rolling Stones, Elvis, Led Zeppelin, Cheech And Chong, George Carlin, real old-time radio play comps, and sound effects records. I was 10. [...]

I just got off the phone with Oliver Ackermann , singer and guitarist for Brooklyn-based, notoriously loud, dark and hard ambient experimental rockers, A Place To Bury Strangers , who recently signed to Mute Records. In addition to leading APTBS, Oliver is a former member of Skywave and the inventor of Total Sonic Annihilation, his first effects pedal in a line that can be found at his site, Death By Audio. LW: Hey Oliver, how's it going? OA: Doing great, how are you? LW: I'm fine thanks. Lemme see, I'm not sure [...]

Here's what's known about Aleister (or at least, what's broadcast about him on the internets): he's British, at first glance he looks a bit like Marilyn Manson what with the white makeup, he's tight with Andrew WK and as such has performed a number of times at Santos Party House, he's British and he's been working on a mixtape (Damn! with AWK, our boy B-Roc and someone named Bad Brilliance (see next paragraph). Through his MySpace, what we can discern is that he's making truly unique music, moving from rhyming to Grateful Dead covers with surprising [...]