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THE ESTRANGED are a new three-piece from Portland, Oregon. Members come from the HC/Crust scene, where they have a long history of playing in some of the genre's most influential bands. Kinda surprising, then, that on Static Thoughts The Estranged throw...

The esoteric noise duo known as HEXA is the sonic union of Xiu Xiu's focal point Jamie Stewart and sonic provocateur Lawrence English. Their collaborative work has been described as being possessed by cascading low frequency pulses and tectonic plates of...

The epoch of The Silver Machine began in 2012, from mystic visions seen by it's female founders in Savannah, GA. The name of this cult of performers, and their mytho-futurist-intergalactic-shamanic doctrine, sound and aesthetic, are derived from the...

The EP-LP was originally released in 1986, after the band had split in November 1985, & collected for convenience the first four Subhumans EPs onto one LP. This includes the fiery debut, 'Demolition War', that was first unleashed at the end of 1981, the...

The enigmatic presence known as Ellorsith returns with their new EP Orbh?is. Continuing their pattern of a new release every two years (following their 2014 debut 1959 and the 2016 split with Mannveira), Ellorsith delivers a new twenty-minute themed opus...

The English translation of Allt ?r Intet is "All Is Nothingness" - an apt enough title for a band already possessed of the scorched earth sonic tendencies and nihilist-leaning name of The End. Yet there's some ambiguity to that philosophy; the most...

The Edward Petersen Quintet has been appearing weekly at Chicago's well known jazz club, The Green Mill, for about three years. The music on this album is a sampling of that which the group performs in a "live" situation. These recordings were done...

The earth rotates, seasons change... there is but one long day... Time is a beguiling, indistinct entity... sometimes standing still, sometimes bending back upon itself with premonitions or memories of the future. Growing out of a pen pal style...

The earth rotates, seasons change... there is but one long day... Time is a beguiling, indistinct entity... sometimes standing still, sometimes bending back upon itself with premonitions or memories of the future. Growing out of a pen pal style...

The Dutch-British melodic/progressive rock group Dilemma has risen from the ashes like a Phoenix! The band performed for the last time in April 2012 and then silently disappeared into oblivion. Behind the scenes, however, the quintet was busy working on...

The Drowned Ground is the 3rd release from Mojave duo Less Bells. Following up their beautiful and haunting LP Mourning Jewelry on Kranky Records, they invite the listener on a tour of deep time, wind mountain villages, secret caverns and Victorian...

The Dropkick Murphys have an uncanny talent to fuse their culture and their music. "Sing Loud, Sing Proud" is a perfect example of that. Rooted in Irish folk, the Murphys brand of punk rock is some of the most unique and infectious music on the scene...