Olde English Spelling Bee has teamed up with Stellar OM Source aka Christelle Gualdi, another criminally underrated artist.  “Trilogy Select” collects the tracks from three CD-R releases from 2009, “Crusader”, “Alliance”, & “Ocean Woman”.  Again, this is a slab of retro new-age synth music, right along the same lines as the stuff Oneohtrix Point Never [...]

In these days of calm, peaceful pre-summer bliss, we all need a little insanity in our lives sometimes.  Lucky for us, there’s a new record by Dekalb’s Sick/Tired to spin the shit out of.  This stuff will peel your face off, unbelievably intense grind/powerviolence with passion.  Beautifully housed in some good old-fashioned metal artwork, this [...]

Looks like Type has added another amazing artist to their roster, this time it’s a prolific American, Jeff Witscher aka Rene Hell.  After dropping releases on a ton of underground labels (Night People, Arbor, Not Not Fun, Monorail Trespassing, etc), it appears Witscher has made it to the big leagues.  This will fit perfectly on [...]

Wow, these Editions Mego records are killing me.  I can sit here all day and say “shit, I would never buy new records for almost $35 each”, then they go and release new material by Emeralds and Oneohtrix Point Never in the span of 30 days.  The financial universe is working against me.  Anyway, if [...]

Arbor just announced a couple of new vinyl releases, and all the deep drone fiends need to take notice. First up – a new split EP from Cloaked Light and Pale Blue Sky. Calming, meditative textures from these two musicians, mastered at 45 revolutions per minute by Mr. Pete Swanson. Next you’ll be needing the [...]

Everybody’s favorite co-ed nomadic sludge metal duo return with their seventh album. Apparently also the first album to come close to approaching the intense onslaught that this group brings to the stage when on tour. If you’ve seen Jucifer live, I’ll let you be the judge of that – I missed them last time they [...]

Ättestupa continue their campaign of audio desolation with this newest vinyl LP on Release The Bats. I haven’t heard this one since it hasn’t seemed to find its way across the ocean just yet, but I have a feeling it’s not going to be the feel-good record of the summer. Bleak sounds painted in infinite [...]

Looks like Matador will squeeze in another Kurt Vile release before his upcoming new full-length album.  “Square Shells” is a nice little EP that features seven new examples of Vile’s beautiful songwriting.  This material is more dense and less instantly accessible than some of his other work, but it becomes exponentially more rewarding upon repeat [...]

Mogwai has posted the preorder for “Special Moves”, their first ever live album which will accompany “Burning”, their live film.  As of now, the only way to score the vinyl is to buy the deluxe version.  This package includes a 3xLP, a signed poster, a CD + DVD digipack, a 720p video download, a digital [...]

We’re usually so caught up in the dirty, grimey, spooky underground that we forget to write about some exciting records that are blowing up above the surface.  “Treats” by Sleigh Bells is a pretty damn exciting record.  The duo of Derek Miller (formerly of metalcore band Poison The Well) and Alexis Krauss (formerly of teen-pop [...]