Bobby BeauSoleil was a Manson family affiliate who went to prison in 1970 for murdering a drug dealer who had wronged him by selling a bad batch of mescaline. While in prison in the 70s, Bobby composed the original soundtrack for a short film called Lucifer Rising, which has since attained elite cult status. The [...]

Not Not Fun has posted the new album from “The Olsen Twins Of Drone”, Pocahaunted.  They went on a bit of a hiatus, but are back in full effect.  For “Make It Real”, they’ve also added some new members including Cameron Stallones (aka Sun Araw) to further thicken their otherworldly sound.  Grade-A California psychedelic music [...]

Thrill Jockey is once again offering a subscription series of great 12″ releases.  Over the next year, they will release slabs by Javelin, Double Dagger, Jason Urick, Future Islands, Jack Rose with D. Charles Speer & The Helix, High Places, and Oval.  That’s a lot of music, and most of it will probably be awesome.  [...]

Olde English Spelling Bee is quickly becoming one of my favorite labels in the universe, and this new trio of releases only reinforces my feelings.  First up is one of the most exciting things I’ve heard lately, Forest Swords’ “Dagger Path” LP.  This shit is being called, ready for this…drone-step.  You can imagine already that [...]

The amount of must-buy records coming out lately is killing me (but c’mon, I love it).  Unlike Madlib’s usual forays into jazz fusion (think Yesterday’s New Quintet), his Young Jazz Rebels moniker is responsible for some absolutely batshit avant-garde free jazz.  The record has intentional static and an intentionally worn cover, giving it a decidedly [...]

If you didn’t know, the group name Fenn O’Berg is the result of an unwieldy mashup of the three names of the artists involved. The unabridged version reads more like this: Christian Fennesz, Jim O’Rourke and Peter Rehberg. All accomplished experimental musicians in their own right, on In Stereo they come together to conjure digitized [...]

The fine, fine folks at Immune have imported some copies of Gareth Davis & Steven R. Smith’s “The Line Across”.  Hooking up again after last year’s album on Important, this clarinet and guitar duo seem like a match made in heaven.  As the description eloquently states, “with each side of the vinyl containing just the [...]

We are always super into supporting our regional labels and bands, and this record comes from Iowa City’s Night People label.  Broken Water’s “Whet” is pretty much what I wish the current garage bands like Vivian Girls and Crystal Stilts would sound like.  This is much slower, much louder, and much heavier, like if My [...]

I just got an email that piqued my interest.  It was about the soundtrack for “Machinarium”, an independent puzzle/adventure video game, featuring the music of Czech composer Tomas Dvorak aka Floex.  These are spacey, futuristic electronic compositions, about exactly what you think a video game soundtrack should sound like.  The LP version is limited to [...]

Quite Scientific Records have released a new 12″ 4-song EP from City Center. One side has grooves, the other side has a screenprint. I wouldn’t play that side if I were you, but I’m also not your mother – so you can do what you want with the things you buy. Before you do that [...]

I like getting records from Stumparumper, it’s always stuff that sounds refreshing and new.  This one, “Mission Creep” by Banned Books, is some bonafide awesome, bombastic art-pop.  I saw some other reviewers that compared them to The Flaming Lips or Deerhoof, but I’ll have to say here that they genuinely sound like almost noone else [...]

Wow, this is an insane load of new records from the always-awesome Woodsist label.  The first (and most exciting) release is the debut full-length album from the Wooden Shjips side-project, Moon Duo.  This project has a much stronger krautrock influence than the Shjips stuff, but should still quench your thirst for some otherworldly grooves.  $15 [...]

Just got word about this debut LP from Houston three-piece Balaclavas, a brand new release on the Dull Knife label.  This stuff is dubbed-out, psychedelic, and melodic, with a nice little dose of adrenaline-inducing post-punk.  In other words, it’s a big pot of ingredients that OMGVinyl readers will find delicious.  The vinyl is limited to [...]

Not Not Fun is back again with two titillating new vinyl releases (decided to get that one out of the way right off the bat). One new split LP from Psychic Reality and LA Vampires and one new LP from Heather Leigh, previously released as a super-limited cassette tape. I could try to explain to [...]

Newest and supposedly final album of noise dripping drones from the duo known as Yellow Swans – it’s like swaddling up your brain in a scratchy wool sweater. The Type imprint shows no signs of slowing down in 2010, so just add this to their ever growing and already impressive roster of mind-expanding and/or growth-stunting [...]