The third full-length No Age record is now up for preorder.  ”Everything In Between”, their second for Sub Pop, is quite simply their best record yet.  The band sounds more mature with every new release, constantly expanding their influences, yet not making them too obvious.  The LP comes with a 48 page book for $23 [...]

If you’re into noise rock, this three-way split from Brutal Panda records is going to be like a dream come true for you.  They’ve collected three of the best in the game, Kowloon Walled City, Fight Amp, and Ladder Devils, each band contributing two brand new songs.  Total Dinosaur Jr. / Young Widows vibes here, [...]

For a limited time, Weird Forest is having a pretty amazing little sale.  You can buy any two of their records and get a third one for free, it doesn’t even have to be the cheapest one!  I can personally vouch for their records by Ganglians, Yellow Swans, and Mark McGuire, but you probably know [...]

I’ll be totally up-front and say that I haven’t heard this yet, but considering these bands include members of The Melvins, Murder City Devils, Big Business, and Karp, I’m pretty much sold.  Plus there’s the part where they describe it as “hardcore inspired noise rock, or noise rock inspired hardcore” which only further convinces me [...]

This record showed up about a week ago and has burning a path through my brain ever since.  Gil San Marcos makes some hypnotic, noisey music.  He adheres to a strict “no instrument” policy, creating these compositions largely with contact mics and various effects.  This shit gets pretty wild in places, but it’s a lot [...]

Here’s another one for the synthesizer fiends.  Fresh from the remarkably-cool Amethyst Sunset label, this split between Keith Fullerton Whitman and Mike Shiflet is probably best tried before buyed, so check out the samples first.  What sounds like mechanical noise or a swarm of bees to some people sounds like pure heaven to others, we’ll [...]

Root Strata just posted a huge update of new releases, and while it is definitely worth checking out everything (new book + DVD from Liz Harris aka Grouper anyone?), OMGV will simply touch on what is pertinent to the blog at hand. That being mainly two new vinyl releases – one from Duane Pitre and [...]

Our good friends at Digitalis have even more hyper-limited LPs to offer you.  Brother Raven is the musical duo of Jason Anderson and Jamie Potter.  “VSS-30″ is a space-age journey through modern synthesizer music.  It was 100% improvised and recorded directly to tape, preserving the warmth that works so well with screaming synthesizers.  I know [...]

Type Records has released a limited vinyl version of The North Sea’s “Bloodlines”.  If you don’t know, The North Sea is the alias of Brad Rose, head honcho over at Digitalis, so much respect is due.  This slab of vinyl is a dark journey filled with sinister drones and claustrophobic noise.  This is definitely NOT [...]

A fierce transmission from a handful of heavyweight luminaries, most notably Justin Broadrick and Aaron Turner. Don’t expect any post-rock expanse or shoe-gaze gloss, though. This shit is mean, fuzzy and, well… disconnected. 2xLP version finally available from Hydra Head, for now pick up a $22 copy from vacationvinyl.bigcartel.com. [Audio clip: view full post to [...]

Does what it says on the tin. Insound has tons of records, you have lots of empty shelf space. If you don’t, then you need to buy some new shelves and place an order at Insound where the entire store is 15% off for an entire week using coupon code “swjune15″ – insound.com.

Kevin Drumm’s self-titled debut album gets the deluxe reissue treatment via Thin Wrist. This groundbreaking work for “prepared guitar” pretty much set the scene for every noise/improv jam to come after it for the next ten years – highly influential sounds here. Heavy-duty, tip-on gatefold jackets with spot gloss, matte finishes, textured de-bossing and two [...]

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 [...]

I just got this LP in the mail and it has been crawling around my brain ever since.  This slab of vinyl collects some live performances from “The Night Of The Long Worms”, an event held by tape label, The Tapeworm.  If you’ve ever listened to stuff on that label, you know you’re in for [...]

I’ve said it before (well, I think I have), the best drone music in the world is coming out on cassette tape.  The fine folks from Lysergic Earwax got in touch about their newest tape release, and it’s sounding really awesome.  Black Mountain Transmitter’s “Theory And Practice” collects two 18 minute tracks that explore the [...]