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<title>TV On The Radio</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:09:56 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Maybe one reason TV on the Radio gets listed among the best American bands of their generation is because their free-ranging sound deftly throws together a multitude of American musical traditions all at once. The avant-garde indie rock band started as a duo in 2001 when vocalist Tunde Adebimpe met multi-instrumentalist and producer David Andrew Sitek by coincidence. Though they were both recording material for individual projects, they joined efforts and brought in Sitek's brother Jason on drums for sessions that resulted in a self-titled debut released on Brooklyn micro indie Milk. On the strength of this recording, the band signed with Touch and Go, signed up guitarist/vocalist Kyp Malone and released the <i>Young Liars</i> EP in 2003, which was met by unanimous critical praise. They toured throughout 2004 supporting their debut full length, <i>Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes</i>, which was similarly extolled. With dates opening for the Pixies and a fan in David Bowie, TV on the Radio's popularity outgrew their indie label, and in the summer of '06 they issued <i>Return to Cookie Mountain</i> on Interscope (featuring back up vocals from Bowie), which nabbed top spots on a number of year-end lists for 2006. They followed up with an equally solid album in 2008, <i>Dear Science</i>.
- Nate Cavalieri]]></description>
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<title>Sonic Youth</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 10:13:24 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The most exciting band of the 1980s, period. Sonic Youth had no equivalent then, and they still don't -- no one on the underground can rival them for daring, brilliance and range. Their willingness to experiment and evolve brought them perilously near the mainstream in the early '90s, but recent efforts have once again delivered them into the covetous arms of art-rock's intelligentsia. Starting off on the heels of New York's no wave movement, Sonic Youth's pre-SST material marked a period of maturation defined by self-conscious DIY amateurism and the complete demolition of rock guitar convention. The approach broke ground, but kept a pretty low ceiling on what the band could achieve. The arrival of <I>EVOL</I> in 1986 signaled the end of Sonic Youth's anarchic primitivism and the dawning of their golden age. They were gradually transforming bouts of alternate tuning overkill into tightly crafted song. <I>Daydream Nation</I> (1988) remains their pinnacle achievement, a thematically coherent pastiche of Gen-X cynicism, sonic tube disasters and surreal guitar passages that chime like harps in a hailstorm. The work of Sonic Youth is all the more remarkable for being almost entirely self-produced and truly collaborative in origin. Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon and Lee Ranaldo all lend a hand in writing and singing, which sometimes produces the jarring effect of listening to three different bands on the same album.
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>Mindless Self Indulgence</title>
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<category>Industrial Metal</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:23:07 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The wild stage antics of Mindless Self Indulgence front man "Urine" caught the attention of Insane Clown Posse and earned the band the opening slot on their 1999-2000 tour. In the studio, MSI race through minute-or-so, industrially mutated hip-hop/metal tunes. Their off-center cover of Method Man's "Bring the Pain" went off like a pipe bomb in the face of new metal, leaving it pocked with shards of burning irony.
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>Blonde Redhead</title>
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<category>Indie/Alternative</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 09:18:45 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Since their inception in 1993, Blonde Redhead have released some of the most sonically interesting guitar-driven Indie Rock on the circuit. Originally incorporating the more melodic elements of Sonic Youth's dual guitar attack, the group created songs rich in dissonant texture and driving, urgent rhythms. The next inception of the group saw Unwound's Vern Rumsey taking over bass duties, imparting his driving, almost entrancing whirl of rhythmic attack and melody onto the band's 1997 release <i>Fake Can be Just as Good</i>. Currently, the trio have their own set of aggressively patient rhythms and tense, sometimes creepy melodies. Guitars blink on and off to the steady sound of maracas. Arrangements subtly swell then disappear into dark, rhythmic soundscapes. The only constant has been the shared vocals of guitarists Amedeo Pace and Kazu Makino. The latter's unmistakable shrieks and haunting, chant-like moans identify and set Blonde Redhead apart from other noise enthusiasts.]]></description>
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<title>...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead</title>
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<category>Indie/Alternative</category>
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<description><![CDATA[And You Will Know... offer an almost garage/glam-flavored approximation of Sonic Youth's poppier tunes (think "Teenage Riot"). Their syrupy, compressed overdrive offers feedback and bristles with tube-shattering energy; meanwhile, Steve Shelley-inspired drum fills and classic, Bowie-inspired phrasing do their part.
- Jonathan Zwickel]]></description>
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<title>John Zorn</title>
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<category>Avant Garde Jazz</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:13:24 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[John Zorn's sixty-plus (and counting) releases run the gamut from abstract improvisational game pieces (<I>Cobra</I>) and hyperactive, slice-and-dice Grindcore (<I>Torture Garden</I>) to near-minimalist Chamber Music (<I>Redbird</I>) and cinematic studio collages (<I>Spillane</I> and <I>The Big Gundown</I>). The New York City native's most identifiable trademarks are his bloodied, high pitch-dwelling alto saxophone playing and, as a composer, his use of rapid, jarring juxtapositions -- in mood, volume, genre, and/or instrumentation. Both qualities featured heavily in his late '80s/early '90s supergroup Naked City, a sort of rock band summation of his work since the late '70s and one of his two most popular projects. The other, his Jewish-jazz quartet Masada, is relatively traditional, featuring Klezmer and Middle Eastern-flavored melodies in an energetic, Post Bop-to-Free Jazz context. Marking a new phase of his career, Zorn has been devoting attention to his classical material, and in doing so ensuring that his listeners will consistently remain on their toes.
- Will York]]></description>
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<title>Deerhoof</title>
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<category>Noise Pop</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:54:51 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[San Francisco sugar and spazz noise-pop band Deerhoof formed in 1994 from Nitre Pit guitarist Rob Fisk and drummer Greg Saunier. Their quirky No Wave sound was augmented in 1996 by the addition of Japanese singer and bassist Satomi Matsuzaki, who contributed a childlike timbre that makes or breaks many a potential Deerhoof fan. They released <I>The Man, The King, The Girl</I> in 1997 and <i>Holdy Paws</I> in 1999. Fisk then left to form 7 Year Rabbit Cycle, prompting <I>Half Bird,</I> a rarities album of material from their earliest years. John Dieterich took over guitar duties and recorded 2002's <I>Reveille</I>, the first of the band's albums to reach a sizable indie audience. Second guitarist Chris Cohen joined in time for 2003's <i>Apple O.</i> <i>Milk Man,</I> the band's 2004 album, was a concept album about a banana-wielding character drawn by artist Ken Kagami. An MP3-only record, <I>Bibidi Badibi Boo</I>, and EP </I>Green Cosmos</i> followed. In November 2005, <i>Runners Four</i> was released.
- Daphne Carr]]></description>
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<title>Gang Gang Dance</title>
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<category>Post-Modern Pop</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:11:25 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[When Gang Gang Dance started gigging around New York City in the early 2000s, they were the last band anyone ever expected to make a great pop album. Early shows -- no doubt inspired by fellow New Yorkers No-Neck Blues Band -- were half performance art, half mystical ritual, with the band deconstructing noise rock, homemade electronica, free jazz, hip-hop and world music from Africa and Asia. Drummer Tim DeWitt and keyboardist Brian DeGraw had previously played together in the Cranium, an experimental post-hardcore outfit from Washington, D.C. They were strange, but not like Gang Gang Dance. Then things started to change. Each new album documented a band striving to alchemically transform all the weird stuff mentioned up above into a novel and all-too-fantastical breed of dance pop. After two challenging albums, they succeeded with the release of <i>God's Money</i> in 2005. Over an undulating latticework of phantom bass drops, tribal percussion and crystal synths, vocalist Liz Bougatsos chirps, cries and coos like some kind of post-nuclear gypsy. In 2008 Gang Gang Dance upped the ante with the wonderfully psychedelic <i>Saint Dymphna</i>, which actually boasts a dancefloor anthem or two -- sort of.
- Justin Farrar]]></description>
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<title>No Age</title>
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<category>Noise Rock</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:55:21 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The fuzzy, experimental rock of No Age comes from Randy Randall and Dean Spunt, a duo who were two-thirds of Wives, an LA punk outfit. After things for Wives went south, the two split off to form No Age in December of 2005. London-based promoter and micro indie Upset The Rhythm issued their six-song debut, <i>Get Hurt</i>, in the spring of 2007 as a part of an exclusive vinyl-only EP series. Indie tastemakers at Vice and Pitchfork gushed purple (as did major outlets like the <i>New York Times</i>) and the duo won a spot as one of 2007's must-see acts.
- Nate Cavalieri]]></description>
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<title>The Birthday Party</title>
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<category>Goth</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 9 Jun 2009 15:02:40 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[No band fully embodied the word "cacophony" more than the Birthday Party. Much like the Harold Pinter play from which they took their name, their music was dark, comical and grotesque. The Australian-born band blew apart London in the early '80s with their discordant, difficult blend of punk rock and theatrics. Though existing only from the years 1980 to 1983, their live sonic assaults were extremely influential, as was Nick Cave's singing, which was more akin to the shrieks of a demented nineteenth century inmate on his way to the asylum. The banging percussion of "Sometimes Pleasureheads Must Burn" and the stop/start confrontational screams of "Release the Bats" or "Big Jesus Trash Can" were actually capable of instigating fear. The Birthday Party opened music up like a fresh wound, showing something ugly, frightening and beautiful that is still hard to look at.
- Jon Pruett]]></description>
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<title>Earth</title>
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<category>Space Rock</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:38:16 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Eschewing the guitar-based approach to Space Rock of Hawkwind, Helios Creed, etc., Earth rely on digital loops, vocal harmonics, and nature samples to create lush, biorhythmic movements in sound. Capable of blowing the "doors of perception" off their hinges, this music may change how you hear the world around you.
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>Les Savy Fav</title>
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<category>Noise Rock</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Aggressively passionate but also fearlessly experimental, Les Savy Fav somehow manages to incorporate a Post-Punk aesthetic even when it seems like they might venture down a methed-out electronica lane. Fantastic playing and intensity.
- Will Lerner]]></description>
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<title>Boris</title>
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<category>Experimental</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:38:53 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Active since coming together in 1992, Boris remain unknown in Japan, but internationally they have long been recognized as leaders in experimental metal. Over the course of a 16-album and countless 7-inch career, the trio is largely associated with drone and doom but has also messed with straight rock, stoner, noise and ambient genres. Boris are legendary for unrelentingly slow, feedback-drenched dirges that stretch well over the 60-minute mark. They also construct equally long, highly orchestrated epics as well as shorter (for them) Melvins-influenced slow-jams. Their first album, <i>Absolutego</i>, came out in 1996, and as most of their material was not available in the U.S. until Southern Lord started reissuing their catalog in the early 2000s, they remained a sort of holy grail of stoner metal for years. With their latest releases -- as well as frequent and varied collaborations -- finally readily available, the band has consistently lived up to the hype while paying no attention to the praise given in the mainstream press. Boris may no longer be the sought-after prize of true metal geeks, but they remain a vital and groundbreaking part of the extreme metal scene.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Japanther</title>
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<category>Noise Rock</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:54:24 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Ian Vanek and Matt Reilly were students at New York's Pratt Institute when they started playing together as Japanther in 2001. Though Vanek mans the drums and Reilly plays mostly bass, both sing and manipulate a battery of synthesizer and tape effects to achieve the band's noisy art rock fusion. Their debut, a homemade CD-R titled <i>The Last of the Living Land Pirates</i>, appeared in 2001, but the first widely available release, the <i>South of Northport</i> EP, came the following year. Between 2002 and 2007 they stayed stayed busy by releasing six LPs and several EPs, touring widely, and collaborating on a handful of acclaimed multi-media projects.
- Nate Cavalieri]]></description>
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<title>Heavy Heavy Low Low</title>
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<category>Noise Rock</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:02:45 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>The Charm Pops</title>
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<category>Noise Rock</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:23:58 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Wonderfully distorted Indie Rock guitars scream and howl as a nonchalant singer muses lackadaisically over infectious melodies.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>These Arms Are Snakes</title>
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<category>Noise Rock</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:04:16 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>The Jesus Lizard</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 4 Nov 2009 12:13:48 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The sound of the Jesus Lizard will always be associated with loud, up front, borderline obnoxious, intimidating rock 'n' roll. Though often primitive in approach -- they were a trio and a drum-machine on their first release -- the Jesus Lizard has always followed the whims of its infamous front man David Yow. Starting their assault on the rock world with the 1989 <I>Pure</I> EP, the band found its voice with '91s <I>Goat</I> LP. It was on this release that the band slipped on its dirty overcoat and took their cause directly to the people. Their stripped-down, angular rock is defiantly anti-pop, and their raucous, bawdy live shows are legendary. The Jesus Lizard signed to Capitol (after 6 years on Indie label Touch and Go) for '96s <i>Shot</i> and '98s <i>Blue</i>.]]></description>
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<title>Sic Alps</title>
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<category>Lo-Fi</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 7 Oct 2009 12:13:59 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Drive Like Jehu</title>
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<category>Emo/Hardcore</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 13:14:51 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Emo essentially splits into two styles: the melodic variety associated with Sunny Day Real Estate and Jawbox and "Emocore" as represented by Boy Sets Fire, Mineral, etc. Drive Like Jehu are widely acknowledged as a seminal influence on the latter half. Their signature exasperated, heart-felt singing and buzzsaw guitar work helped define a style which continues to grow in popularity. Emocore enthusiasts looking to get back to their angst-rock roots need look no further than Drive Like Jehu. And completists will love the fact that their discography consists of only a brace of longplayers...so get them both and whenever you're in need of a quick fix of audio immolation, you'll be set for life.
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>The Blood Brothers</title>
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<category>Post-Punk</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:25:35 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Health</title>
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<category>Noise Rock</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 10:44:28 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Like Black Dice, Los Angeles' Health are a gaggle of art-school noise-rockers experimenting with electronica. The quartet came together in 2006 and has been a key component to L.A.'s underground rock scene, playing many of the same stages as No Age, Wives and Abe Vigoda. Health's self-titled debut, released on the Lovepump United imprint, explodes with squealing robo-synth and proggy tribal grooves obviously inspired by heavies like Lightning Bolt and the Boredoms. In 2007 the group teamed up with those cacophonous electro-brats in Crystal Castles and scored a U.K. indie hit with a remix of "Crimewave," one of the debut album's top jams. Health then dove deeper into electronic dance music with the release of <i>Disco</i>, a collection of even more remixes. But <i>un</i>like Black Dice, the band hasn't totally abandoned its roots in noise-punk mayhem. Sure, a track like Pink Skulls' remix of "Heaven" is pure 3 a.m. ecstasy. But when compared to most mainstream club jams, its raw beats and searing distorto-drone would freak out most dance-floor vets. But who knows -- maybe Health represents the very beginnings of a lo-fi, club-noize revolution.
- Justin Farrar]]></description>
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<title>The Mae Shi</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 11:11:17 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Electric Eels</title>
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<category>Punk Pioneers</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:04:15 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Arguably the first band to play shows and record music despite the fact that none of the members had any musical training or ability at all, Electric Eels were a proto punk band active in the earliest days of the seminal Cleveland scene of the early '70s. Together for three years (1972 to 1975), the band was banned from just about every venue they ever appeared at for doing things like running a lawnmower onstage, swinging sledgehammers around and picking fights with the audience members. The no-fi recordings they managed to make in between band breakups and a move to Columbus, Ohio, to avoid death threats were never officially released until 2001, when Scat released <i>Eyeball of Hell</i>, a compilation of all the material they were able to get on tape. The swinging, headache-inducing "Agitated" stands as probably their most well-known and, uh, "professional" song, but all 25 tracks on <i>Eyeball of Hell</i> are just as annoyingly, craptastically seminal for folks interested in music that is really, really bad.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Grinderman</title>
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<category>Noise Rock</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 7 Aug 2009 09:42:42 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Unsane</title>
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<category>Noise Rock</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 1 Apr 2009 22:17:59 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Unsane manage to do more shredding than a wood chipper. Founding member Chris Spencer deserves comparison with Thurston Moore for being one of rock's leading architects of monumental guitar noise. Using liberal applications of pedal effects and working at deafness-inducing volumes, this band's sound is instantly recognizable -- muffled screams and drums travel down into a depthless abyss of white noise.
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>Boredoms</title>
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<category>Japanese Noise Rock</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:54:54 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Few artists have ever matched the intensity of the Boredoms. In a frenzy on the level of bands like Naked City and Mr. Bungle (both of whom took strong inspiration from the Boredoms), their epileptic rhythms, firebombing instrumentation and volatile vocal maneuvers combine uncontrolled, frenetic ecstasy and technical mastery. By dropping toy instrument breaks between Grindcore blasts and bastardized Techno, they create their own language out of the detritus of musical forms and take the listener through a Surrealist misadventure. Their sound, as well as their career, is fraught with unpredictability. Few bands have reinvented themselves as consistently as the Boredoms after they took Hardcore music to its self-destructive limit. Always musical saboteurs, they now perform extreme experiments in Psychedelia, Krautrock and Musique Concrete, creating long, sustained passages of mutating, sublime guitar noise, tribal rhythms and tape manipulation.
- Marc Kate]]></description>
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<title>Magik Markers</title>
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<category>Noise Rock</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 10:39:26 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>the number twelve looks like you</title>
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<category>Noise Rock</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 8 Mar 2009 11:03:13 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Be Your Own Pet</title>
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<category>Noise Rock</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 7 Oct 2009 12:13:58 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Q and Not U</title>
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<category>Noise Rock</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:02:26 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Thumbnail</title>
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<category>Noise Rock</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:23:54 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[With the vocal fury of David Yow (The Jesus Lizard) and both Ian MacKaye and Guy Picciotto of Fugazi, Thumbnail play tight guitar rock that sounds straight outta Chicago or D.C.
- Marc Kate]]></description>
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<title>12 Rounds</title>
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<category>Noise Rock</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 4 Jun 2009 08:29:59 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Imagine if Diamanda Galas retained her ability to terrify but hedged her staggering vocal range, then imagine she's fronting a Marilyn Manson-esque band filtered through the Cramps or the Birthday Party. That's the type of creeping, bruising, twisted rock 'n' roll that 12 Rounds create: heavy Industrial beats and buzzsaw noises, guttural guitar lines, and a vocalist that you'd be afraid to meet in a dark alley. Surprisingly, the band doesn't shy away from acoustic terrain -- like Trent Reznor, they'll bear a more vulnerable, quieter side utilizing only the singer's still harrowing voice and an acoustic guitar. It's just as disquieting as their noisier moments, the way that unadorned intensity can often be truly disturbing.
- Will Lerner]]></description>
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<title>Scratch Acid</title>
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<category>Noise Rock</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 12:48:26 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Before the Jesus Lizard, before Rapeman, before singer David Yow, bassist David Wm. Sims and drummer Rey Washam left Austin, Tex., for the fertile Noise Rock ground that Steve Albini (among others) had created in Chicago -- there was Scratch Acid, a band as abrasive as a brand-new Brillo pad, as heavy as a Sherman Tank, and as scary as anything ever released on vinyl at that time. During their live shows, the band would often appear completely naked, covered in mud, and high on...well, the name makes one wonder. The band's sound was chaotic and aggressive, but they never bothered with the type of experimentation with instrumentation and genre that made fellow Austin-ites the Butthole Surfers borderline Neo Psychedelic; Scratch Acid's only goal seemed to be to frighten the bejeezus out of the listener. Songs titles like "Cannibal," "Crazy Dan" (in that lil' ditty a man sets his wife on fire), and "Damned for All Time" give you a glimpse into their collective twisted mind, but it is only by listening to their sonic assault that one can truly delve into the dementia.
- Will Lerner]]></description>
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<title>The Flying Luttenbachers</title>
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<category>Free Jazz</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 10:57:12 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Free Jazz at breakneck speed, screeching metal shards, a weird Surf/Punk rock vibe, and one hell of a racket. Unlikely to help you wind down after a tough day at the office. Bite guard recommended.]]></description>
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<title>Nomeansno </title>
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<category>Noise Rock</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:55:27 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Two freakish brothers from British Columbia have spent almost twenty years banging out unapologetically jazzy Punk. Live, you're often treated to just the two of them: Rob Wright banging on bass and singing lead vocals, and brother John bashing drums and letting out a few screams. They create enough chaos for a band twice their size, and there's no denying that the band is defined by their complex, twisted, and decidedly difficult rhythmic assault. The word "assault" isn't always appropriate -- their first album <I>Mama</I> is pretty tame -- but their best moments find them melting amplifiers, befuddling listeners, and spewing out heated lyrics as Rob Wright's voice takes on a Jello Biafra quality. <I>Wrong</I> (1989), quite possibly their best and most representative record, is stunning. From the opening track, "It's Catching Up," the album rarely lets up, creating a blissfully exhausting and utterly cathartic experience along the lines of the Jesus Lizard's <I>Goat</I> or Birthday Party's <I>Prayers on Fire</I>. And although <I>One</I> (2000) doesn't keep that breakneck pace, it's more than obvious that NOMEANSNO are nowhere near done with their noisy, challenging sonic rampage.
- Will Lerner]]></description>
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<title>Hella</title>
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<category>Noise Rock</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:00:21 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Guitarist Spencer Seim and drummer Zach Hill started Hella as a duo in 2001, playing extremely intricate math-noise similar to Lightning Bolt but more melodic. Seim's style of tapping the strings gives him the ability to coax some pretty remarkable sounds out of his guitar. As a part of the early '00s post-punk avant garde explosion, Hella proudly represented the Sacramento, Calif., scene, touring the West Coast almost constantly and putting out records on the hip 5RC label. In 2005, they added a singer and a keyboardist, which greatly expanded their sound.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Alice Donut</title>
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<category>Hardcore</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 09:19:56 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[With the grating and screeching vocals of Tomas Antona shoved to the forefront of the music, Alice Donut proved that perseverance may lead to a certain level of respect amongst your musical peers, but not necessarily to commercial success. The band emerged from New York City in 1989 and, with the urging of the Dead Kennedy's Jello Biafra, quickly released two albums of Punk (often bordering on joke) rock for Biafra's Alternative Tentacles label. In 1990, <I>Mule</I> saw the band refining its sound to resemble more standard Punk -- if you could call anything from the band standard -- though the lyrical content remained full of social lampooning. On later LPs, like <I>Revenge Fantasies of the Impotent</I> in 1991, the band hit its artistic stride with a three guitar attack and a calmed, less frenzied lead vocal by Antona. The band called it quits in 1995, but reunited in 2003 to unleash the <I>Three Sisters</I> album.]]></description>
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<title>Oneida</title>
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<category>Acid Rock</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:05:58 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[One of the brainiest and most prolific NYC bands of the '00s began as a duo and has done time as a four-piece. But at heart they're a power trio, given to three-CD sets and conceptual trilogies, to freak-folk and slow metal and Krautrock and dub reggae, to plunking the same note over and over for a quarter-hour or more until you realize they've been gradually shifting all along. On early albums like 1999's <I>Enemy Hogs</I>, they come off as a kind of stoner-rock unit, but on 2000's definitive half-hour-plus <I>Steel Rod</I> EP, they squeeze Link Wray barbed-wire twang and a choogling Creedence cover into weird nerd-rock that balances the sludge with science-lab keyboards after the manner of Devo or Pere Ubu. "Power Animals," on 2000's <I>Come on Everybody Let's Rock</I>, was about a deadlocked presidential election -- not Bush and Gore, but Tilden and Hayes in 1876. On 2002's double disc, <I>Each One Teach One</I>, they carried water-torture minimalism to its breaking point, and since then -- averaging more or less an album a year -- they've gotten both daintier and dronier, picking up indie fans much younger than themselves, then regularly finding ways to dumbfound them.
- Chuck Eddy]]></description>
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<title>Mike Patton</title>
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<category>Power Electronics/Noise</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 11:30:09 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Those who only know Patton as "that guy from Faith No More" (or even via his work in the more experimental bands Mr. Bungle and Fantomas) are in for a surprise upon hearing his solo albums. <I>Adult Themes for Voice</I> (1996) was recorded entirely a cappella using only a four-track and a microphone (no effects), but you'd never guess it given the range of hisses, gurgles, explosions, and Industrial-grade noise blasts on hand. <I>Pranzo Oltranzista</I> (1997) was inspired by the Italian <I>Futurist Cookbook</I>, and alternates sections of eerie suspense with jarring noise outbursts; it supports the Futurist credo that "art, in fact, can be nothing but violence, cruelty, and injustice." Relatively more conventional are his contributions to the Tzadik label's <I>Great Jewish Music</I> tribute series, highlighted by his spastic, over-the-top version of T-Rex's "Chariot Choogle." He actually sings on that one, too.
- Will York]]></description>
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<title>Grey Daturas</title>
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<category>Noise Rock</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 11:21:59 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments</title>
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<category>Lo-Fi</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:04:14 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>The Horrors</title>
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<category>Garage Rock Revival</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 10:11:22 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Not to be confused with the glammed-up British garage rockers that go by the same name, these the Horrors were a guitar-and-drum (no bass) rockabilly/garage-noise trio from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, who were active in the early '00s. Exhibiting stronger rockabilly leanings than any of their garage scene peers (or predecessors for that matter, except for the Bassholes), the Horrors puked up two very good albums on In the Red, made a name for themselves as a completely outta hand live act and then promptly disappeared. <i>The Horrors</i>, seemingly recorded in a tin shack either set on train tracks or set on fire, appeared in 2000 and painfully set the bar for oversaturated rock 'n' roll, highlighted by such party-ruining classics as "Every Inch of My Love," "Hurt That Bird" and "I Don't Need a Woman, I Need a Nurse." The marginally better-recorded <i>Vent</i> appeared in 2003 -- more topped-out trashing -- after which the band unfortunately fell silent.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>The Hair and Skin Trading Company</title>
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<category>Space Rock</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:23:54 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The less distinguished of the two groups to arise from late-1980s drone rockers Loop (the other being the more ambient/experimental Main), this three-piece did at least have the more interesting name. They pushed at the confines of the basic rock band format with their repetitive bass/guitar figures and minimalist drum patterns. They sometimes abandoned them completely, instead creating spaced-out drones built on layers of feedback and otherwise effects-laden guitars.
- Will York]]></description>
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<title>Hammerbox</title>
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<category>Grunge</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:15:07 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Scrappy guitars trundle past Grunge into Funk, psychedelic, and backwoods rebel rock. In the struggle to be the breakaway Grunge band with female vocals, they lose badly to Hole.
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>Botch</title>
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<category>Metalcore</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:43:20 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Botch mix blindly frantic thrashing with complex math skills. One of the most focused bands in the Hardcore underground, their unmistakable urgency pits bludgeoning rhythms against screeching guitars and manic, screaming testimonials.
- Marc Kate]]></description>
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<title>Goes Cube</title>
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<category>Alt/Punk</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 08:25:50 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Laughing Hyenas</title>
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<category>Noise Rock</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 1 Apr 2009 22:16:54 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[With a passionate and emotive singer, Laughing Hyenas' tight, dark music has developed a strong cult following. Influenced by the noisy, angry and tortured blues of the Stooges.
- Will Lerner]]></description>
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<title>Denison Marrs</title>
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<category>Noise Rock</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:15:17 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Pissed Jeans</title>
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<category>Noise Rock</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 4 Nov 2009 12:13:50 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[For those of you who thought indie rock no longer puked up scuzz rock, we present you with Pissed Jeans. These four dudes grew up in Allentown, Penn. But they might as well hail from Austin or San Francisco or any other town infamous for producing sweaty 'n' shirtless miscreants like the Happy Flowers, Halo of Flies and Butthole Surfers. Indeed, Pissed Jeans are like the ultimate Amphetamine Reptile tribute band; "I'm Sick," the lead track on their debut, <I>Shallow</I>, proves it. Matt Korvette howls, "I'm sick/ I'm dehydrated/ I've got diarrhea/ I can't keep my food down/ My sinuses are clogged/ I'm sick/ ARRRGGG!" But as with the mighty Jesus Lizard -- possibly the band's No. 1 influence -- Pissed Jeans' power isn't just a product of bad vibes, gross lyrics and monster riffs. These dudes jam their butts off. They're also surprisingly controlled for a band whose rhythm section rumbles like a coal-burning train barreling down a mountain. But best of all, the band writes catchy tunes that have paid dividends. Sub Pop released Pissed Jeans' second album, appropriately titled <I>Hope for Men</I>. Not bad for a band that wrote a song titled "Caught Licking Leather."
- Justin Farrar]]></description>
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