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Deerhunter Release Live Album on iTunes (and ONLY on iTunes)

Deerhunter Release Live Album on iTunes (and ONLY on iTunes)

Deerhunter played a live show at the Apple store in New York in September,  and now a live EP recorded at the show is being [...]

DEERHOOF – Deerhoof vs. Evil
reviewed by Oswald Hobbes

DEERHOOF – Deerhoof vs. Evil

For all of Deerhoof’s genre-bending and experimentation, their greatest moments occur when a genuine hook busts free of the sonic chaos. These moments, contrasted with [...]

Shapers – Nadya Lyons and the Imposing Peril of a Brave New World

Shapers – Nadya Lyons and the Imposing Peril of a Brave New World

Shapers recently released a brand new single on Whistler Records and toured out to the East Coast and back. As soon as they returned home, [...]

PRISMO PERFECT – Out of Nowhere
reviewed by Garrett Lyons

PRISMO PERFECT – Out of Nowhere

Prismo Perfect is a group from Brest, France that plays noisy lo-fi electronic pop along the vein of Waaves and Japandroids with hints of MGMT [...]

JAPANDROIDS – Heavenward Grand Prix
reviewed by Ryan Moore

JAPANDROIDS – Heavenward Grand Prix

The world needs more bands like Japandroids.  While most new groups drop a debut and leave us salivating for what can be years, this Vancouver [...]

STNNNG – The Smoke of My Will
reviewed by Ryan Lawrence Carr

STNNNG – The Smoke of My Will

STNNNG don’t care whether you like them or not. After existing for seven years, playing more than 200 shows, releasing countless singles, two previous full-lengths, [...]

Show Review: Fun Fun Fun Fest 2010
words by Luke Winkie | photos by Kaitlyn Roche

Show Review: Fun Fun Fun Fest 2010

Amongst the commercialized Lollapalooza and the inflated Coachella, we need smaller, secluded festivals to keep us all grounded. Fun Fun Fun Fest gives Austin a more intimate, personalized, and risk-taking lineup in counterpart of Austin City Limits, featuring some of pop culture’s most surreal un-conventionalists like Yankovic, Gwar, and Suicidal Tendencies.

Crystal Castles – Not In Love (feat. Robert Smith)

Crystal Castles – Not In Love (feat. Robert Smith)

“Not In Love,” originally by the 1980s New Wave band Platinum Blonde, was covered by Crystal Castles for their latest album — and now they’ve [...]

XBXRX – I Can See

XBXRX – I Can See

With the addition of new drummer Kyle Mabson along with a new residency in Los Angeles, California, XBXRX are releasing a brand new 10-song seven-inch [...]

Gary Wilson – Electric Endicott

Gary Wilson – Electric Endicott

In 1977 Gary Wilson famously released a uniquely bizarre and personal album titled You Think You Really Know Me…, full of electro-funk, proto-new wave, noise collage, [...]

DEERHUNTER – Halcyon Digest
reviewed by Jon Aubin

DEERHUNTER – Halcyon Digest

There are a lot of bands that write about suburbia, but few expose its corrupted underbelly as well as Deerhunter — which makes it all [...]

Verbicide Select Mixtape Volume 7

Verbicide Select Mixtape Volume 7

As the summer days die away, Verbicide Select Mixtape roars back to life with a seventh volume, now available for free download. We’ve got classic [...]

House of Bread – Don’t Be Shy

House of Bread – Don’t Be Shy

Beginning in 2005, Omar Afzaal conceived of House of Bread as a noise-pop solo project with the use of guitars pedals and a simple eight-track [...]

House of Bread – Artificial Man

House of Bread – Artificial Man

Beginning in 2005, Omar Afzaal conceived of House of Bread as a noise-pop solo project with the use of guitars pedals and a simple eight-track [...]

Sisters – Highway Scratch

Sisters – Highway Scratch

Lo-fi indie/noise-pop duo Sisters will release their debut record Ghost Fits on September 28, 2010 on Narnack Records. Sisters is Aaron Pfannebecker (vocals/guitar) and Matt Conboy (drums/keys). [...]