Excepter 's Nathan Corbin, aka Zebrablood, just sent in these ominous, narratively ambiguous black-and-white visuals for London-via-Melbourne electronic group HTRK , pronounced "Hate Rock." Following the tragic suicide of founding member Sean Stewart in March of last year, Jonnine Standish and Nigel Yang returned this September with a new studio full-length on Ghostly International - their second in the group's nearly eight years of existence. "Bendi," layers Standish's ghostly vocals over dub-slow deep bass hits and slinky, contrapuntal beat programming. Corbin's video first spoke to me of the feeling of rediscovering the streets and interiors your everyday urban itinerary through the [...]

"If you listen to it, you have to listen on good headphones, you can't listen off your laptop speakers, because you'll miss so many frequencies and stuff… It's awkward in that sense, you should be able to listen to a record wherever you want but I do think you need to give this one some time, otherwise you're going to miss things out. There are so many subtle shifts there, energy shifts and things… I've always thought there's a difference between songs and pieces of music, anyway, and I didn't want to write an album of 10 songs, I wanted [...]
goodgirlandcarrots : AIR FRANCE: IT FEELS GOOD TO BE AROUND YOU Though for the time being it might remain a rare occurrence, nothing quite matches the experience of hearing a new Air France track. It's almost as if there's this magical breaking down of barriers, allowing you a sneak peek into a whole new stratosphere of happiness, where everything is limitless, where the feet dance and the smiles raise. 'It Feels Good to be Around You' [...]
Brooklyn's non-finest experimental noise-improv outfit the EXCEPTER attemp to haunt you via their THE OPEN WELL video whilst ignoring the fundamentals that make up a song - chorus, middle eight, medley etc. wotyougot
Watch 'The Open Well' below. Enjoy their official clip for 'The Anti-Noah' here. Click here to view the embedded video. MP3: Excepter - Kill People

Gleams - Love Stinks Gleams - Insidious Gleams - Star If it wasn't for the slander of #BlackTwitter, I wouldn't of ever heard of Gleams. First off I'm not black, I'm 100% white(like most of these MJF writers). But #BlackTwitter is just plain hilarious and struggle at the same time. If you've never heard of it, please see @ NerdAtTheCoolTable 's blog here . I saw him being slandered for what it seemed to be no apparent reason. So I saw he was [...]
Inner Spaced is a droney collaboration between Emeralds' John Elliott and Brooklyn/New Orleans modular synth duo Telecult Powers - self-described as an "electronic music [group] with the sole/soul purpose of trans-plutonian communication." The following excerpt comes pretty close to capturing the feel of Telecult's inimitable live performances, which combine tactile sound vibration, candle light flickers, and old nature documentaries and ethnographic films to quasi-liturgical effect. Typically, "Witchbeam" and "Mister Matthews" sit on the floor with their backs to the audience and their faces to the screen, manning their machines like the controls on the dashboard of a helicopter; the husky [...]
In the old days rebellion was about being yourself, dressing how you wanted, dancing in a field, sleeping with who you wanted, reading what you wanted and any other actions that the main stream deemed to be outside the norm. These days being a political rebel isn't some fashion stance punk thing of wearing that nazi shirt or not letting your mum know what time your coming home, it's about grassroots and all those cliches. Doing something locally that effects things globally. Hipster/individualism is just another commodity that business learned how to sell, and we suck it up like the best [...]
Yesterday, the Space Shuttle Discovery departed Earth on it's final mission. Among the cargo aboard, was one astronaut who's name was not publicly announced. My beautiful friend, and band mate- Clare Armory has left our Planet Earth. Her soul has been set free to bless this mad universe that we all live in. I know how difficult that it is to lose a loved one to cancer. I lost my mother nine years ago to the same ravaging disease. It was the hardest thing that I have ever had to deal with in [...]
Filed under: News , R.I.P. facebook.com/pages/excepter Clare Amory, of the New York-based experimental electronic group Excepter, has died following a battle with cancer. Amory was 35, according to band member Jon Nicholson, who wrote about Amory's death on a blog for Secret Society Pyramid Snake, one of his other musical projects. "My beautiful friend, and band mate Clare Armory has left our Planet Earth," Nicholson wrote. "Her soul has been set free to [...]

I know its been a while since my last post (with the exception of my best of 2010 posting) , but thankfully the homies Jib and Craw have been holding down the fort HARD for us at MHD ! In that time we had our inbox bursting with new music, that your ears need to hear! Got a lot to do this week so [...]
Watch 'The Anti-Noah' below. Excepter recently shared a fabulous live clip. Click here to view the embedded video. MP3: Excepter - Kill People

Lo and behold the starwanderers as they continue their ramblings inside a box of black space lined with gold thread, chronological boundary for the holy year that was 2010. Here we report the risky explorations that over this period tore asunder the walls of reality to fetch from the amorphous manifold beyond nutritious morsels of quantum pop which which we watered our garden and fed the livestock. Such were the strange flowers that grew thereafter, and the ancient tongues with which our beasts proclaimed. Ariel Pink and his Haunted Graffiti: Before Today. News at 11. Pop prophet transforms utopian fish into crumbling DIY bread, masses flock to worship at [...]
![Excepter - "When You Call" [VIDEO]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/2999287_lg.jpg)
Excepter shows us what a post-apocalyptic town run by trippy DJ's might look like in their newest video for the track "When You Call". The track is a dubbed out and slowed-tempo nightmare and the video feels like a Marilyn Manson video that was mocking the "Book of Eli". But regardless of the comparison; the song is amazingly intriguing and will have you wondering the directors intentions as you wander from scene to scene. It is very psychedelic and experimental. Excepter is a five person group from Brooklyn and they are the characters that you see in [...]

At least CMJ Thursday is pretty straight-forward during the day. It's the I Guess I'm Floating (one of my very favorite blogs) Pianos day party. It's pretty much wall-to-wall worthwhile bands including Baths, Beach Fossils, Oberhofer, Teen Daze, Young Man, Braids, and Gobble Gobble. The nighttime gets much more complicated. Of course, part of this is that by the third day of CMJ, whatever showcase you go to probably has at least one band you've already seen, and it's harder to skip around from showcase to showcase in NYC than it is in the nicely walkable Austin, Texas. [...]
Watch today's extensive feature below. Be certain to visit Excepter on MySpace. Click here to view the embedded video. MP3: Excepter - Kill People

Recommended Show: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2010 EXCEPTER, Zs, and more @ SILENT BARN 915 Wyckoff Avenue Ridgewood, NY 11385 $TBA, 8PM Excepter is one of those acts once heralded as "the next big thing," but then never really seemed to break. Considering the band's indie ethic, it would surprise me if this was by choice. They still play out a bunch at the cooler venues in town, such as Silent Barn, where they perform tonight with Zs and many more. [...]
Excepter - The Punjab James Buchanan did not approve of drapery. He despised drapes. "They flutter and cling," he said. He called Franklin Pierce, his predecessor, "an absolute drapist." During his time in the White House, all window frames sported decorative leather cords, bound, like bolo ties, by metal clasps. Buchanan longed for the fields of his home state, Pennsylvania. He held fond memories in his warm, smooth brain of the mountain laurel that grew, stately and unabashedly, in the glens and forests of the commonwealth. He missed the ear-tickling call [...]

The wonderful people over at Impose have posted some of my photos of The Zs record release show at The Knitting Factory. If you'd like to see them, you can click here . While you're there, make sure to check out some of Impose's other content; they really have some of the best musical taste out there. The Zs were awesome. Can I say that? Is that terrible music journalism? Because that's what they were- straight up awesome. A saxophone, two guitars, and an unconventional percussionist is all it takes for the Zs to whip up a [...]