When you're already in a dance with noise and free improvisation, the Kosmische is less than one membranous step away. And so it was with Ghost Moth , the duo of suitcase electronicist Todd Pendu and multi brass/woodwind blower Daniel Carter . This was Ghost Moth's third set as a duo (reduced from a trio), continuous play totaling over 50 minutes. So many of my favorite records come to mind upon listening: Bob Ostertag's Getting a Head ; Merzbow & Christoph Heemann's Sleeper Awakes [...]

Tori Amos's holiday album, Midwinter Graces , is in stores tomorrow, as is the Pixies 17-disc Minotaur box set. Among the discs that have already been sent my way, I can definitely recommend Caroline Herring's Golden Apples of the Sun , Hyperstory's self-titled album , Loch Lomond's Night Bats , and Robyn Hitchcock's live album, I Often Dream of Trains in New York (CD & DVD) . Reissues this week [...]
so as i lurch from one depressing personal tragedy to another i figured i need something ugly and harsh to soundtrack these rather grim days. and i figured what better fella to get involved in this than kevin drumm. the man who spawned, vomited, shat out, sheer hellish miasma . which at times provided the most gutjuddering ferocious noisemongerry (see the inferno for details) i've heard in long while. like burzum being fed legs first into an industrial shredder, recorded onto damaged tape and played down a long distance phone line on loudspeaker through amps [...]
New things this week are due from Robin Crutchfield, Cave In, DJ/Rupture, Merzbow, Nadja, Githead, and many more.
Pacific Northwest rock heroes the Melvins have been blasting out their blend of punk, metal, and experimental music since the '80s. By the '90s, when Melvins pal/fan/failed auditionee Kurt Cobain and his crowd came into ascendance, the Melvins were hailed as the godfathers of grunge, but they just kept on plowing their own unique musical furrow. Now, the band that has collaborated with everyone from Lustmord to Leif Garrett has embarked on an unusual remix project, Chicken Switch , where noisy experimentalists like Lee Ranaldo and Merzbow each forge new tracks from entire Melvins albums. Singer/guitarist Buzz [...]

03 November Tuesday Bat For Lashes - Two Suns [Special Edition CD + DVD] (Astralwerks) Brilliant Colors - Introducing (Slumberland) Cold Cave - Love Comes Close [Reissue] (Matador) David Bowie - Aladdin Sane [2xLP Vinyl Reissue] (Capitol) David Bowie - Diamond Dogs [2xLP Vinyl Reissue] (Capitol) David Bowie - Space Oddity [Deluxe Edition] (Virgin/EMI) David Bowie - Young [...]

Devendra Banhart - What Will Be Bell Orchestre - Who Designs Nature's How BOAT - Setting the Paces Broadcast & the Focus Group - Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age Glass Ghost - Idol Omen MP3: Glass Ghost - [...]

R.E.M.'s live album, Live at the Olympia (2-CD) , finally hits stores tomorrow, along with Devendra Banhart's major label debut What Will Be and The Swell Season's Strict Joy . From what has already been sent my way, I can strongly recommend BOAT's Setting the Paces , Gemma Ray's Lights Out Zoltar! , Hem's Twelfth Night soundtrack , and Tegan and Sara's Sainthood . [...]
New music this week includes release by Jesu, Jozef Van Wissem, Ocean, Holy Sons, and Merzbow and old music this week includes a classic reissue from Sun Ra.
Emily Jane White's melancholy and dusty Americana is an unexpected surprise on a label that is better known for being home to acts like Merzbow and Acid Mothers Temple, but it was easy to see why Important Records wanted to put this out once I heard it. Dark Undercoat is an often powerful and mesmerizing debut.
Durante toda esta semana, Super 45 comenta lo mejor del ciclo "Música y Armonía" del 16º Festival Internacional de Cine de Valdivia En el 16º Festival Internacional de Cine de Valdivia, las jornadas dedicadas a la música y el cine, dentro del ciclo "Música y Armonía" han adquirido ribetes experimentales, en tonos desafiantes y que perturban la percepción de los espectadores acostumbrados al cine clásico, tanto en formato como en narrativa. No es inhabitual que varios se retiren de la sala. Con un corte radical, el chileno José Luís Torres Leiva –además, el [...]

these ten songs. these ten songs are all perfect tumours and broken-teeth smiles and drunkdrunk women in shortshort skirts. they're like getting ripped and taking off all your clothes and running running running; listening, it's cracking an egg and finding a chicken fetus. it's blood and vomit and spunk and piss and shit. it's the sky falling. it's a house on fire with the family inside. it's the best worst orgasm of your goddam life. it's the sun the moon the earth. it's everything horrible and glorious [...]
by Black Bubblegum Rwake ( more here ) How do you improve on Shrinebuilder in the flesh? Rwake and Liturgy have been added as support at the upcoming Shrinebuilder show at Le Poisson Rouge on 11/15 . Tickets are still available ! Shrinebuilder has also announced their participation in a particularly STACKED [...]

Yes. This is a freaking Pitchfork re-post again. Don't hate the player hate the game. A list such as this is invaluable to avid music buyers, hence why we are imparting iy onto you, our loyal readers. Keeping it short, but some upcoming releases of highlight include: Alela Diane: Alela and Alina EP ; Blitzen Trapper: Black River Killer 12" EP ; Jemina Pearl : Break It Up ; Kurt Vile: Childish Prodigy; Music Go Music: Expressions and TONS more after jump. We conceited music bloggers sometimes [...]

TOP ALBUM RELEASES: SEPTEMBER 2009 NICK'S TOP: Rodrigo y Gabriela: 11:11 The Avett Brothers: I and Love and You The Instruction: [...]

It's been a looooooooong time since I last listened to The Melvins, but in fact, my very first CD purchase ever was The Melvins Stag back in 1996, so I feel obligated to mention that they've got a new remix record called Chicken Switch out in store for you to checkout. Chicken Switch track listing and remixers: 01 Washmachine Sk8tronics (Remixed By Eye Yamatsuka) 02 Emperor Twaddle Remix (Remixed By Christoph Heemann) 03 She Chokes Her Dying Breath & Does It In My Face (Remixed BY V/VM) 04 AAHHH... [...]

Godfathers of Grunge, the Melvins, have decided to mix it up. Literally. Today marks the day of the release of the Melvins remix record titled Chicken Switch released by Ipecac Recordings . Judging from the press release, this is more of a mash up record containing a tons of different Melvins songs mixed by the likes of Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth), and members of Matmos and The Boredoms. Below is the tracklist along with a track from the record. 01 [...]
More sonic souvenirs from the Sept 11-13 All Tomorrows Parties from Kutshers resort in the Catskills, broadcast over WFMU. The Melvins . A lone blog post can't sum up all there is to say about these guys, except theirs is a world so universal that only these musicians could be the common thread between Lustmord and Gene Simmons (both of whom have made music with them). Simply calling the Melvins the godfathers of Northwest grunge shorts them on many accounts; their beauty, brutality, and enormous palette for experimentation and forward-thinking has never stalled out. It's no wonder [...]

Undeniably, this is a really big release week ( The Big Pink , Girls , Islands , and Times New Viking , to name just a few). It almost makes the release week of 10/6 look small. Almost. Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty The Big Pink - A Brief History of Love MP3: The Big Pink - "Dominos" [...]