Hey. The new album by Wax Idols, added for US listeners some weeks back, was very recently added for everyone else. Genre: noise pop/post-punk. Enjoy! Wax Idols – Discipline...
have shrugged off the shadowy malaise that permeated their moody debut in order to get their electro-pop dance on with their shimmering, adventurous follow-up, Good Together. The...
Gauzy industrial pop laced with remnants of early '90s shoegaze, Ministry of Love is a surreal window into the world of Los Angeles group IO Echo. More
While it isn’t pretty, cute, comfortable or enlightening music, Field of Reeds is important, resonant, serious and very very clever.
More confounding than astounding, the Southend sonic adventurers’ follow-up to the mighty ‘Hidden’ is tough to love
Evening. From a very recent Spotify update: the hypnotic new album by These New Puritans. Genre: experimental/art rock. Good stuff. Enjoy! (Note: Not available for US listeners...
Field Of Reeds. It's that title that holds the key to These New Puritans' third album. Fields are terra firma, wilderness tamed, human use of the soil for productivity. Reeds one...
Sprawling Melbourne psych-rock five- piece Beaches return with second album She Beats. Their self-titled debut emerged on Mistletone Records in 2008, making the Australian Music...
Vicious, austere, revelatory post-punks make high-minded idealism sound apocalyptic
Hi again. The well-received debut album by Savages was added to Spotify earlier this week. Genre: post-punk. Enjoy! Savages – Silence Yourself Filed under: 2013, Rock
This re-release of Scotland's Political Asylum's 10-inch mini-album, which originally came out in 1992, is as much notable for the additional fifteen live tracks culled from shows...
This album collects Child Bite's recent two sibling EP's into one brutal package. For years, we have watched Child Bite change, contort, and rearrange itself in to the gnarly...
Much-loved Melbourne guitar-slingers Dick Diver return with second album Calendar Days, the follow-up to 2011 debut New Start Again . Previously known for their scratchy, dueling...
Remix albums have something of a deserved bad name: often lazily tossed off cash cows trying to convince the consumer to pay out for the same product twice. Yet another Blade...
Like Gary Numan meets early XTC on Wire’s Change Becomes Us, an album of songs recorded right after the group’s second LP Chairs Missing. Worsening tensions within and without the...
British art-punks Wire have been around in some configuration at various junctures for the better part of 30 years. While you would think they would just be grumpy old auteurs...
Crime and the City Solution was formed in 1977 in Sydney, Australia by Simon Bonney, most associated with the post-punk and art-punk scenes. In the early 1980s, when band was...
Morning. This excellent new album by Crime & The City Solution is their first album in over 22 years! Genre: rock/post-punk. Enjoy! (Version for AU, GB, IE, NZ, PL and the US here...
Ye gods – has it really been 23 years since Crime & The City Solution last released an album in the shape of Paradise Discotheque? It's strange to pause and think about the...
The Florida punks break away from the pack with five tracks full of high drama, fresh ideas and singer Carson’s emotive croon
Kim Ann Foxman rose to prominence as a member of Hercules and Love Affair, her moment in the full Hercules spotlight the rollicking, vibrant “Athene.” Her vocals on the track were...
A shimmering denouement of the band’s assiduity; a refined, perfectly sculptured collection of songs that weave in and out of sonic consciousness.
The Mary Onettes has been releasing dreamy indie-pop from Jönköping, Sweden since Swedish label par excellence, Labrador, put out the band's Lost EP in 2006. Seven years and two...
Hi again. From a very recent Spotify update comes the relaxing new album by The Mary Onettes. Genre: dream pop. Enjoy! (Version for FR, GB and US here.) (Oh, and I finally got the...
Though they existed for less than two years, Toy Love are immeasurably important to the history of New Zealand music. They helped inspire the creation of Flying Nun-- perhaps the...
The Brooklynites take a gentle turn from their punk roots to draw on a host of new influences, but still rock like muthas
Rewind to 2011: New York amp molesters the Men make Leave Home, a gloriously oppressive record documenting unhealthy manifestations of seething attitude and amplifier vivisection...
The phrase "Whatever you are, be a good one," most oftenly attributed to Abraham Lincoln appears to be a piece of advice that the Men have taken to heart. When they were a...
When the time came to record their new album, The Men headed a couple of hours north of New York City to a cabin in the Catskill Mountains. The upshot of a 300 million year...
Brooklyn’s The Men keep 2013’s garage rock torch blazing on their sophomore LP, New Moon. In recent days, the genre has witnessed a revival of sorts, with bands such as Parquet...
It's the first law of indie-rock: Every grungy, guitar-powered act-- from Dinosaur Jr. to Titus Andronicus-- eventually goes a little Crazy Horse, gradually easing their squalling...
Evening. From a very recent Spotify update: the new album by The Men. Genre: noise pop/rock. Enjoy! (Note: Tomorrow I’m going back home again, which means no blog updates during...
At times quite captivating and as rowdy, New Moon is ultimately an album half-full of both indelible sonic fury and equally forgettable missteps.
Since their 2004 formation, the Photo Atlas have been poised as the next big thing out of Denver but have not jumped on the available bandwagons provided by their scenemates in...
Forthcoming single "Museum" works as a fitting introduction. Lead track "Parting Gesture" is, according to the band, "one long sonic ramp and always felt like an introduction to...
Let's face it. Goth music is awesome, but as a genre it's dead. Death rock is awesome, but as a genre, it is mega-dead. Garage rock is awesome, but as a genre, it's way past dead...
Push the Sky Away is the 15th official album by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, but it could almost be their first. After 30 years together, the band has effectively come full circle...
Hey. The critically acclaimed new album by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds was finally added for Sweden and a few other countries today and is now available worldwide. Genre...
I don’t really understand Nick Cave; most still-active 80s artists are lucky to be considered consistent and predictable (Morrissey) and and worst can be contrived and painful...
The grand lord of gothic lushness is 55 and still in his prime on this majestic and desolate masterpiece
For many people, this is the best-known Julian Cope album. Not for them the recent 72 minute single-track-synth-drone-meditation 'Woden', or the acoustic campfire whimsy of...
A less dense more polished second album delivering on early promise. A textured, atmospheric and impressive collection of more muscular and accessible darkwave pop.
Quietly working away at a curious intersection somewhere between industrial shoegaze and techno pop, Esben & The Witch found themselves, in the space of a few short months at the...
Esben and the Witch's goth rock billing seemed a bit ill-fitting; their debut had the gloomy atmosphere down pat, but it lacked the pomp and theatricality inherent in so much of...
When Esben and the Witch released their 2011 debut, Violet Cries, it aligned them with then-current goth pop (Zola Jesus, Austra, Chelsea Wolfe), and, as Jayson Greene concluded...
This isn't a new New Order album, exactly. During the long, expensive sessions that produced 2005's Waiting for the Sirens' Call, New Order recorded a small pile of extra material...
The portents were not good. A mini album featuring eight outtakes from New Order's rather lackadaisical 2005 album, Waiting for the Siren's Call hardly made me bubble with...
Before David Lowery was known as a leading crusader for musicians' rights against the evils of thieving NPR interns, and/or the frontman of fairly popular 90s alt-rock band...
Alternative rock pioneers Camper Van Beethoven have returned with a new album, La Costa Perdida . The lineup, featuring Victor Krummenacher (bass, baritone guitar), Greg Lisher...
Before David Lowery was known as a leading crusader for musicians' rights against the evils of thieving NPR interns, and/or the frontman of fairly popular 90s alt-rock band...
As riotous, guitar-led escapes from the drudgery of the day to day go, this is more than enough fun to convince you to go along for the ride.
Hi. This explosive, terrific album by Parquet Courts is recommended listening. Genre: garage rock/post-punk. Enjoy! (Read a bunch of positive reviews here.) (Note: I decided to...
Parquet Courts have created a bonafide epic in the form of a debut album, however, don’t exactly expect Masterpiece Theater; Light Up Gold is pure, perfect, lowbrow fun. Co...
Little was said about New York (via Texas) band Parquet Courts' debut effort, American Specialties . Released exclusively on cassette tape, the quasi-album was an odd collection...
Parquet Courts are high as hell and they're not going to take it anymore. Stoned, starving, and maybe just a little bit irritable, they're approached by a clipboard-carrying do...
Pere Ubu return with their first new studio album for over three years in January 2013, the thirty-fifth anniversary of the group's debut ( The Modern Dance ). Lady From Shanghai...
David Thomas wryly claims that Pere Ubu's 15th studio album, Lady From Shanghai, is "dance music fixed", the 'problem' being that dance music "encourages the body to move without...
After five years of experimenting with a string of different singers, Chromatics introduced Ruth Radelet as the lead actress to star in their films in 2005. Forever standing out...
