Ed Schrader’s Music Beat Jazz Mind [Load; 2012] by Joe Hemmerling Rating: Wham City veteran Ed Schrader has teamed up with bass player Devlin Rice to produce one of the oddest albums to land on my desk this year. Jazz Mind , their 11-song, barely 20-minute debut, swings wildly between the apocalyptic rhythms of a stripped-down Swans and a kind of minimalist, new age psychedelia. The first two tracks pretty much stake out the poles that the rest of the album drifts between: the plodding, Pentecostal fury of “Sermon” and the sparse, watery psych of “Gem Asylum.” Schrader’s delivery ...

Baltimore-based writer/comedian/punk conceptualist Ed Schrader has a new project, Ed Schrader's Music Beat ; that project will release an LP, Jazz Mind , on May 14 via Load in the U.S. ( Upset the Rhythm will release the album abroad). The LP features contributions from Matmos and No Age 's Randy Randall, who contributes guitar and ambient noise to this under-two-minute basher. Ed Schrader's Music Beat: "When I'm in a Car" [ft. No Age's Randy Randall]

Baltimore duo Ed Schrader's Music Beat just released Jazz Mind on Rhode Island's always dependable scuzz bucket Load Records, and their drum and bass setup sort of recalls No Age's stripped-down anthems. That might actually be because No Age guitarist Randy Randall guests on the track "When I'm I...

Autumn de Wilde (Alabama Shakes) Although the whining revs up every year that the South by Southwest Music and Media Conference is a suffocating clusterfuck overrun by desperate artists and even more desperate industry hacks, the fact is that SXSW currently has a greater variety of artists than at any time in its history. What in the early days used to be an indie-rock salon with some rootsy guests invited along now spans hip-hop, R&B;, metal, electronic dance music, and beyond. Here’s an eclectic sampling of 40 acts who are definitely worthy of your attention and attendance (including Alabama ...

Sub Pop has signed its first ever Australian band. The legendary Seattle label, which was started by Bruce Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman in 1986, has snapped up Melbourne indie-folk four-piece Husky. They now join Sub Pop’s considerable roster, which includes Foxes">Fleet Foxes, No Age, The Shins, Low, Wolf Parade and Washed Out. “Sub Pop is enamored with the Melbourne quartet, Husky,” said Poneman in a statement. “The band's strength rests in its infectious, evocative songs and stirring live performances.” The deal will see the release of the band’s debut album Forever So in the US on ...

Röportaj: Cansu Ergun Amerikalı iki kişilik noise pop/shoegaze grubu No Age, gitarda Randy Randall ve davulla vokallerde Dean Allen Spunt’tan oluşuyor. Los Angeles merkezli No Age, indie müziğin önemli kalelerinden Subpop plak şirketinin önde gelen gruplarından biri. Aralarında Health ve Abe Vigoda gibi grupların da bulunduğu Los Angeles şehir merkezinde yer alan kült müzik kulübü The Smell’in gediklilerinden olan No Age, aynı zamanda son birkaç senenin yükselen alt kültürlerinden birine ev sahipliği yapan Los Angeles’ın güçlü yeraltı kültürünü de en iyi temsil eden müzisyenlerden. Şimdiye kadar 3 albüm yayınlayan ve Amerikan bağımsız müziğinin en önemli destekçileri ...

MP3:   Wives: "One" This year marks the tenth anniversary of Post Present Medium , the label run by No Age 's Dean Spunt. Accordingly, celebratory gestures are in order. On December 6, PPM will release a one-sided 12" featuring the last recordings of defunct hardcore band Wives , which included both No Age members (Spunt and Randy Randall). The release is called Roy Tapes , because the collection was recorded with the band's then-new drummer, Roy Tatum; Best Coast's Bobb Bruno handled the recording duties. Check out the release's first track, "One", above.

by John Crowell • October 2011 If you haven’t heard of Nate Young, you haven’t been paying attention. He’s the force behind great noise acts like Demons, Stare Case, and Moon Pool & Dead Band. You probably know him best from Wolf Eyes, the Michigan noise group whose past and current members have been a part of other luminary groups like Dead Machines, Handicapper Horns, Hair Police, Dead Air, Graveyards, and many others. In terms of the upper echelon of American noise acts, these dudes are the glistening, pulsating, malignant nerve center at the center of the Midwest, erecting walls of crushed beer cans and rotting synthesizers to carve a barrier between East Coast design school kids like Black Dice and Lightning Bolt and the West Coast’s rainbow spectrum of noise punk (No Age) to harsh noise (John Wiese). They’ve come to typify much of Midwestern noise: organic, scruffy, thunderous, and unrelenting — these are folks who can’t even drive to the beach to chill out (unless that beach is on Lake Huron.) Nate Young has always been one of the main driving forces behind Wolf Eyes and, separately, Midwest noise in general. He’s known for his close relationship with the tools for creation and distribution of his work. Lathe cutting, synth wiring, artwork; he’s got a hand in it all. It’s this personal connection that makes his work, as well the segments of Midwestern noise he’s participated in and influenced, so interesting. Soon he’ll be releasing an LP as Nate Young Regression on NNA Tapes called Nate Young “Stay Asleep” Regression Volume Two ( TMT News ), which will give us all a glimpse at what’s ...

Randy Randall and Dean Allen Spunt , better known as No Age , rocked the hell out of FYF Fest. Enjoy some photos of the band as well as of crowdsurfers below thanks to Robert Vega ( RobertVegaPhotography.com )

Photo of the Jesus Lizard by Francis Chung As part of last month's Pitchfork 15 coverage, No Age guitarist Randy Randall spoke about the eye-opening experience that was his first  Jesus Lizard show. He was so moved he tried to take frontman David Yow's shirt off his back. During the show-- not before or after.

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No Age video portrait by Sanchez & Kitahara Well, this is pretty fucking awesome: Newestra report s (via  Consequence of Sound ) that at the close of No Age 's show in Los Angeles' MacArthur Park last night, former Black Flag members Keith Morris and Chuck Dukowski-- the former currently the frontman for hardcore lifers supergroup OFF! -- joined Dean Spunt and Randy Randall on stage to perform a few Black Flag songs.

Lisztomania - Because everybody loves lists... For the third year straight, I attended Pitchfork's music festival in Union Park, Chicago. For three days, I battled through hot heat and hangovers to see some great--and not so great--bands selected by the indie kingmakers themselves. Here's a list of my five favourite performances, in no particular order... 1. James Blake This blog has a pretty lengthy track record for being pro James Blake , so it shouldn't surprise regular readers that I loved the fuck out of this performance. Going into the show, I was skeptical; I wasn't sure how ...