Swans
40 years on, Michael Gira and Swans continue to bring a ritualistic experience that needs to be heard in order to be believed. Featured photo by Reese Cann.
40 years on, Michael Gira and Swans continue to bring a ritualistic experience that needs to be heard in order to be believed. Featured photo by Reese Cann.
Rampen (apm: alien pop music) (POTOMAK). Review by Steven Cruse.
The Beggar (Mute / Young God Records ). Review by Steven Cruse.
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Human Impact (Ipecac Recordings). Review by Scott Adams.
If the LAPD is hassling your punk rock show, move it out into the desert and bus the punks out to party in peace.
The Seer (Young Gods Records). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Flutes, leather vests on bare skin, werewolf songs, and kids on stage. It’s not your average recipe for a rock show, but then, as Matthew Moyer points out, Faun Fables is not a rock band.
Liturgy crashes a party brought to you by indie buzz acts to 1: confuse fans who came out to see Sleigh Bells and Diplo, and 2: give Matthew Moyer a reason to show up.
Hissing Veils (Dais ). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Shadow Temple (Captured Tracks). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Freed of this Flesh (Crucial Blast). Review by Matthew Moyer.
My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky (Young God Records). Review by Laura Pontillo.
Interpol (Matador). Review by jeff schweers.
Renihilation (20 Buck Spin). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Shut Up and Bleed (Atavistic Records). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Enemy Mine (Jagjaguwar). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Monoliths and Dimensions (Southern Lord). Review by Matthew Moyer.
An Epiphanic Vomiting of Blood (Crucial Blast). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Black Fortress of Opium. Review by Matthew Moyer.
Twenty-three years after his Sonic Recipe for Love, Steve Stav writes a playlist for the brokenhearted victims of another corporate holiday: the first Valentine’s Day of the second Trump era.
Phil Bailey reviews Rampo Noir, a four part, surreal horror anthology film based on the works of Japan’s horror legend, Edogawa Rampo.
In this latest installment of his popular weekly series, Christopher Long finds himself dumpster diving at a groovy music joint in Oklahoma City, where he scores a bagful of treasure for UNDER $20 — including a well-cared-for $3 vinyl copy of Life for the Taking, the platinum-selling 1978 sophomore set from Eddie Money.
Ink 19’s Liz Weiss spends an intimate evening with Gregory Alan Isakov.
Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory (Jagjaguwar). Review by Peter Lindblad.
This week, Christopher Long goes “gaga” over discovering an ’80s treasure: an OG vinyl copy of Spring Session M, the timeless 1982 classic from Missing Persons — for just six bucks!
Both bold experiment and colossal failure in the 1960s, Esperanto language art house horror film Incubus returns with pre-_Star Trek_ William Shatner to claim a perhaps more serious audience.
You Can’t Tell Me I’m Not What I Used To Be (North & Left Records). Review by Randy Radic.