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Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) is a physical sensation characterized by a pleasurable tingling that typically begins in the head and scalp, and often moves down the spine and through the limbs. Most ASMR episodes begin by an external or internal trigger, and are so divided for classification. Type A episodes are elicited by the experiencer using no external stimuli, and are typically achieved by specific thought patterns unique to the individual. Type B episodes are triggered involuntarily by an external [...]

Aziz Mian! (thank you Katherine Graham):

Live 1984 video from one of Boston's killinest.

Via the Retronaut blog, insane! More pix via the link.

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Hard to believe Psychic Paramount have been around for ten years already, coming up out of the ashes of the late great Laddio Bolocko . Both on record and live, PP swerve between brutality and bliss: layers of textural distorto guitar action and color, throttling, mathy percussive pummel recalling great moments of This Heat gone into total in-the-red Japanese psych mode. Add Robert Fripp-like loops building and dismantling the songs themselves in bulldozer style, and you've got the makings of one killer progressive rock unit. This month's session on my radio show blasted into orbit [...]

Terrors - Lagan Qord (Weird Forest) Somewhere in the cold grey spaces between Amen Dunes and Kurt Vile live the faraway, mournfully woozy guitar ballads of Terrors , the home-recording project of Elijah Forrest, whoever that is (I'd like to know). Lagan Qord is a CD & vinyl issue of 2 years' worth of cassette releases. Check his cover of "God Bless the Child" , which sounds almost like John Cale demoing tracks for Nico's Chelsea Girls sessions.(Scott Williams) Clap - Have You [...]

• Kamal Hassan and Illaiyaraaja - Vikram Vikram

Sad news of Conrad Schnitzler's passing from stomach cancer, August 4th. A true maverick of experimental and electronic sound, Schnitzler's work with the likes of Kluster, Tangerine Dream, Gen Ken Montgomery and many others added a rather dramatic fork in the road in the avenues of progressive music starting as far back as the late 1960's. Melodies, rhythms, noise, field sounds, all cloaked with alien atmosphere with a unique vocabulary that was highly emulated, but never replicated. Conrad und Sohn is a particular fave of mine, a 1981 recording he did with his teenage [...]

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Mueran Humanos, S/T ( Blind Prophet / Old Europa Cafe) Mueran Humanos (Die Humans) is a boy/girl duo from Argentina via Berlin who manage to combine a dark synthwave heart with muy rockismo guitars & fuzz-bass and an effortless pop sensibility. Like their sexy-trashyglam-slasherfilm visual aesthetic, the wrappings are aloof, cold and violent, but the melodies are often sophisticated and pretty. Best case in point is the brilliant slow-burn of album-opener "Horas Tristes", an 8-minute piece of carefully constructed patience featuring dub percussion, kraut guitars, horror movie organ, a lovely vocal chorus and perfectly timed [...]

Autoluminescent is a documentary set to come out in August focusing on the story of late guitarist Rowland S. Howard (Birthday Party / Crime and the City Solution / The Immortal Souls among other combos). Interviews with Cave, Lydia, Thurston and others are sure to only scrape the surface on shedding light on one of the most intriguing six-string stylists of yore, his influence is yet to fully uncork itself in the modern, sadly Rowland-less era. Thanks to Bob Bert for sharing.

Recent guests on Brian Turner's show : hailing from Olympia, Washington, Milk Music are a killer electric rock trio that conjure up the downstroke punk attack of Greg Ginn with the pop hooks and Bigmuff stylings of Greg Sage & the Wipers (who are clearly a spirit looming large over the Northwest USA these days). Liberal doses of early Dinosaur and Thin Lizzy floating around as well in this, the band's first ever radio session. No-nonsense, simple, buzzed-up American rock for your downloading/listening pleasure courtesy the [...]

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Kudos Herb Diamante!

This Copenhagen quartet averaged age 17 when composing their debut LP "New Brigade" for Dais Records release stateside (now reissued on What's Your Rupture ) who describe the release as "uncontrived, pure – this record is a youthful assault of downer no-wave hardcore, wise beyond it's years." Indeed, there's a fresh breath of air in this mix of Pink Flag/Wire-style compact energy and '81 downtown NYC guitar nods (not to mention the frosty flurry of Darkthrone at times) but Ice Age's average 2-minute jams [...]

Eddie Van Halen vs. Jan Hammer to the death.

Here's a recently surfaced promo video for "China My China" from Eno's 1974 LP 'Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy).' Appearing as Brian's "band" are Judy Nylon and Polly Eltes (Polly appeared on the album as guest vocalist on "Mother Whale Eyeless"). Thanks Matt Laferty!

via Aaron Dilloway:

Useless Pieces of Shit, 1984, thanks to Bazooka Joe.