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Without resorting to the type of cheap Mayan calendar reference that... well shit, that I just accidentally conjured starting this sentence (OOPS LOL), 2012 will certainly be a year of change. At least for me. And maybe John Cusack. So happy new year... let's get to it! Since I started this silly project with the ill-conceived pun in June 2008, The Decibel Tolls has provided a resounding sense of fulfillment for me, and hopefully, for some of the readers and artists we've championed. When I launched the blog, I found that a few serious niches needed filling - [...]

Sup fools. One of the best records of the year is a joint you ain't heard yet. We've teamed up with We Listen For You , Pretty Much Amazing , and Listen Before You Buy to correct that. Nerves Junior 's As Bright As Your Night Light is a meticulously crafty art rock album that fans of Deerhunter and Women will shit-fit over. Come join us Sunday evening, 9 p.m. Eastern, 6 p.m. Pacific. We'll tweet the URL one hour prior (you do follow us on the Twitterings , correct?). After the [...]

We're going for three-peat on the anti-success platform this year, aiming to lose badly in all categories, including best local website, best local blog, and best music writer. Please help up realize this! Head over to the LEO Weekly Readers Choice Ballot and vote for ear X-tacy for best record store, El Mundo for best Mexican and or Margaritas, Zanzabar for best live music venue, and Kentuckiana Weddings (last year's victor) for best website. We can't fucks with their catering ideas or "Sever Not Found" message, so you [...]

Happy new year everyone! And fuck yeah, Gregorian calendar! 2010 was rad. We came, we saw, we whipped our hair back and forth (maybe). Double rainbows, bros icing bros, auto-tune mixes of embarrassing local news stories, and a metric shit-ton of bands who decided they didn't want to be found on Google... that was 2010 in a sentence. Glad we got to share it. As we look onto 2011, there are two big things you all can expect. First, assholes who have nothing interesting happening in their brains will get extremely excited on January 11 and November 11. [...]

Just got word from The Black Angels' publicist that frontman Alex Maas is in the hospital, but she assures me that he will be okay. That's all I know. It's definitely a major bummer for us looking forward to the experience, but I am sure they will come back and see us when everyone's 100%. No word yet if Black Mountain will go on as planned. Let's all wish Alex a speedy recovery and keep him in our thoughts. More info as it becomes available.

Yes yes ya'll, the four spirit warriors and one slay belle known as The Black Angels are poised to bring the most brain burning show of the season to Louisville next Tuesday with Black Mountain, and we have a pair of tickets to give away. If you want to score said tickets for you and a friend/lover/hater, comment on this post (make sure you enter your email - I promise, no shifty business) with a link to a funny piece of political satire or photo. I think everyone reading this blog probably [...]

What is this Halloweenosphere treachery you may ask? Well, from now (the 27th) until Sunday night (Halloween), The Decibel Tolls will be posting various entries as another blog. That's right, TDT will be dressing up, more or less, as another esteemed member of the blogololosphere. And we're making a contest out of it! Make sure you register you email address in our Disqus commenting system, and the person who corrected guesses the most "costumes" will receive a prize care package from us (I'll be announcing over our Twitter the type of goodies within)! It starts today, so eyes [...]

Been meaning to post this forever. My friend and blog bro Zach is a filmmaker (an actual one, not a "filmmaker") and made a rather fun video for a local group called The Pass (though it was more of a party). While the majority of the readers of this blog won't be into the music so much (it's dance rock), the concept of the video is a fun one - visual representations of 30 different tastemaking music blogs - and I have the distinct pleasure of providing the only instance in which a blog is represented by the [...]

Tomorrow night - it's on. I don't gotta tell ya - Bear In Heaven , who have consistently been cited as one of the best performances at Pitchfork Music Fest and SXSW, the mighty return of Shedding , and the regional debut of Slow Animal . This will be bananas, and you've gotta get a sneak peak at the huge (4,000+ sq ft) new multi-purpose DIY art space, Land of Tomorrow , opening downtown. Land of Tomorrow is located at 233 W. Broadway , at the corner of Broadway and [...]

We're very excited to be one of the sites selected to host the virtual screening of Mogwai 's new concert film, Burning . The online event kicks off at 3 p.m. on Tuesday, July 27th right here on the front page with an introduction by Stuart Braithwaite of Mogwai and director Vincent Moon. The film, which documents Mogwai's three night residence at Brooklyn's Music Hall of Williamsburg in April 2009, officially begins screening stateside in select markets in late August, so this is the first opportunity you'll have to see this film. [...]

Fresh from a string of killer sermons at South By Southwest, shout outs from Grizzly Bear, a nice Best New Music high five from Pitchfork, and critical acclaim across the board, Brooklyn's Bear In Heaven come to town providing the inaugural performance at new DIY art space Land of Tomorrow in downtown Louisville . Incorporating shades of expansive shoegaze, dusk lit electronica, motorik experimentalism, and pop ambient through a warm washed digital canvas, Bear In Heaven's dream-like Beast Rest Forth Mouth is one of the strongest releases you're likely to hear anytime soon. [...]

Tonight will be crucial. Disappears will rip through their excellent Kranky release Lux and all the new destructive jams they've been writing and recording, and recent Hozac acquisition Woven Bones will talk a bunch of bullshit and trash the place. Louisville's DW Box opens the show. It's 8 reserve notes, doors are at 9 p.m., and ridiculousness commences until the law enforcement officials or hazmat show up to shut the damn thing down. This show will be upsettingly loud. On like Mao Xedong. Zanzabar is located at 2100 South Preston Street on [...]

• Disappears - Pearly Gates
• Woven Bones - With You Alone

This is so advanced. Look at the fucking cat! Just chillin'! Wavves are alright, by the way.

After you're finished barbecuin' and memorializin' and what have you, come get your brain caved in courtesy of Casino vs. Japan and Nudge tonight at Zanzabar (2100 S. Preston St.) in Louisville. 9 p.m., five binks bro, YOU KNO WUT 2 DO! Good chance that one or all the artists are gonna get iced at some point tonight, but you didn't hear that from me.

I can't emphasize enough how rad and unique this show's going to be - aesthetically, musically, and otherwise. The weather is looking pretty nice thus far - 60s, sunny, breezy - but be sure to bring a hoodie or light jacket, as it will get rather crisp tomorrow night. As many people have asked, yes, there will be a full cash bar available. There's plenty of available parking near Glassworks, as meters are not monitored on weekends (or you can grab a spot in the adjacent secure lot). Doors are at 8:30 p.m. - please get there early, [...]

Found not only a way to get the site back, but also, to post that screen cap for good. Are you ready? Yeah, so this was our idea of a somewhat meta April Fools joke - that, in addition to our bizarre Tumblr page . The idea, of course, was to get people looking for an image of Neon Indian doing nasty deeds on Chatroulette. Some people did, but most people were unconcerned. I'm not sure what this says about us as a culture. It is what it is. We had [...]

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Hey all, Alright, so no sense dragging this controversy out. Because of recent developments and the cease and desist, we're more or less forced to shut this thing down. It sucks to pull the plug just as some real momentum was building, but that's life, or at least, that's the Internet during the times of Music Blogocide 2K10. Perhaps we were asking for it, as we're always pulling stunts that could get us in trouble anyway, but we're surprised this can happen with a private server using the open source Wordpress platform. Be it as it may. We [...]

Dear Readers and Friends, Late last night, we posted a patently lewd screen capture of Alan Palomo, a.k.a. Neon Indian, engaging in a private moment after being randomly paired with the chillwave artist during a Chatroulette session. Our publishing and subsequent publicizing of this graphic image was inappropriate and in incredibly poor taste. We have since removed it from our server and Google Cache, and want to issue a formal apology to Mr. Alan Palomo and his family, as well as to Mountain Dew ®, Green Label Sound ™, and their parent companies and [...]

The folks at ProdSimp were rad enough to give us a pair of tickets to give away for the Tortoise and Disappears show tomorrow night at Headliner's. Both bands rule hard. It's going to be great, and you're probably going either way, so why not save some coin and participate in our contest? To enter, send me some lyrics that Sir Wesley Willis could've penned about either Tortoise or Disappears (or both in the same song). I'll start: You are a rocking maniac You were in The Sea and Cake and [...]

• Disappears - Old Friend
• Tortoise - 06 - Dot/Eyes