The song begins with a faded-in single snare. An organ creeps along, tiptoeing around the beat. There is a deep, tunneled voice, ranting, Lynchian, in Russian, presumably, since Post-Materialists are a Moscow collective. The track reminds me of other anti-music like the most anarchistic Ween or the angriest, least sensible Sun City Girls. It's hard to know without asking anything about this band: Do they want you to like this, or are they in the Sir Richard Bishop School Of Not Giving A Fuck...

Origami Vinyl :: Top 10 Records (12/9- 12/15) 1. Bleached “Searching Through The Past” 7″ 2. Papa “A Good Woman Is Hard To Find” 3. Eddy Detroit Meets The Sun City Girls “Shango” 7″ 4. Girls “Father, Son, Holy Ghost” 5. Ty Segall “Singles 2007-2010″ 6. M83 “Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming” 7. Hepa/Titus “Volume 2″ 8. Fidlar “DIYDUI” 7″ 9. Allah-Lahs “Catamaran” 7″ 10. Atlas [...]

Composer and violinist (ah heck, we may as well mention he plays tuba and erhu as well) Eyvind Kang, who is most known for his Athlantis and The Yelm Sessions , is releasing his latest full-length, The Narrow Garden , on Ipecac come January 31. For those of you unfamiliar with Kang’s talent, you might have heard one of his many guest appearances with the likes of sunn 0))), Sun City Girls, John Zorn, Mr. Bungle, Collective">Animal Collective, or on this year’s Baroque Primitiva by Alvarius B. According to Ipecac, The Narrow Garden is perhaps one of Kang’s ...

Eyvind Kang, the well-known string player who has worked with Mr. Bungle, Sun City Girls and Lou Reed, releases The Narrow Garden on Jan. 31 via Ipecac Recordings. Spin said of Kang's most recent Ipecac release, 2007's Athlantis: "Think the monolith scene from 2001 as rendered by Mr. Bungle and...

Eyvind Kang, the well-known string player who has worked with Mr. Bungle, Sun City Girls, and Lou Reed, releases The Narrow Garden on January 31, [...]

Op zaterdag 8 oktober was er een middag- en avondprogramma op twee locaties. 's Middags ben ik in The Star & Shadow cinema , waar de apparatuur en instrumenten aan de lange zijde van de zaal zijn opgesteld. Er is geen verhoogd podium. Bong uit Newcastle beet de spits af met een trage, harde doom rock/drone set. Niet erg subtiel, maar wel strak. Beter beviel mij Chris Forsyth & band met een twintig minuten durende uitvoering van het nummer Paranoid cat. De Television achtige gitaarpartijen maakten het spannend, wat niet gold voor de korte stukken die nogal saai klonken: stuurloze instrumentale postrock ...

Controlled Bleeding Odes to Bubbler [Soleilmoon/Winged Disk; 2011] by Chris Wenn Rating: It's difficult to get a handle on Controlled Bleeding, whether you're confused by the fluid lineup or the fearsome range of stylistic changes the New York-based combo have attempted since their first incarnation in 1978. Releases on Wax Trax! and Roadrunner have been supplemented with varied experiments on European labels such as Sub Rosa and Dossier. Odes to Bubbler , while released on the Winged Disk label, sees Controlled Bleeding renewing their acquaintance with the venerable experimentalists at Soleilmoon and exploring some furious noise-rock territory. The ...

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by TMT Staff • July 2011 Half of the year is over, and we're so excited about how 2011 is shaping up that we wanted to share our favorite 25 albums of the year so far. Unlike with our year-end lists, this list was compiled with no official tally; whoever wanted to speak up about their favorite albums spoke up. Consequently, there's no order here, just a list of albums accompanied by text taken directly from our reviews. In cases where we had no review — shame on us! — we either embedded full-album streams or wrote fresh blurbs, as in ...

One of the biggest surprises of 2009 was the glorious album "Apple's Acre" from Nurses .  The opening track "Technicolor" stole the show and pointed for things to come for the band.  Dead Oceans announced their new album "Dracula" today and are giving everyone a sneak peak in the form of a MP3.  Everything I loved about Nurses is present on this new track, "Fever Dreams".  It features bright vocals with a drums that chug along under a constantly evolving melody.  Put Nurses and their album "Dracula" on your calendar, it's a can't miss release. Nurses - "Fever Dream ...

Out in distant space, two mystic symbols reside. Though they spin peacefully through infinite space, eventually the pair shall collide, marking the arrival of a new Prince Rama album and... you know what? Forget it. I'm embarrassing myself. While the members of Prince Rama were raised on a Hare Krishna commune in Florida, I was raised in the suburbs of Mississippi, perhaps the least psychedelic place in existence. That said, Prince Rama are in fact releasing a new record, Trust Now , through Paw Tracks on October 4. Trust Now is the Brooklyn-based psych band's fifth album overall and ...

Alvarius B Baroque Primitiva [Abduction; 2011] by Collin Anderson Rating: Recently, on a Tiny Mix Tapes forum thread whose topic I’m probably in no position to disclose, a creeping suspicion of mine was confirmed: We TMTers, on the whole, freaking love Sun City Girls. The spray’s radius encompasses various side projects and just about anything that Alan Bishop’s Sublime Frequencies label touches. Something about the way those guys approached music vibrates sympathetically with a core philosophy, if that’s even claimable, of this particular webzine. Namely, I think we agree that (a) music does serious cultural work ...

Wild Weekend , take 63. A little something for everyone as usual, though I obviously dig it all. Be it reggae or soul, freakcore or flamenco-jazz. Or is that jazz-flamenco? Doesn't matter really. Just have a wild one. Kicking off with a Nostradamus alert. "There's something burning away at me so deep inside, I can't hide it anymore..." Could it really be that the way underrated Supreme Dicks foresaw the recent Arab Spring nearly twenty years before the fact? Answers on the proverbial postcard, and please don't miss this rather magnificent piece from '93. Our weekly reggae ...

bagpipe |ˌbagpʌip | noun (usu. bagpipes) The bagpipe is a wind instrument used among the ancient Greeks but is known as a Scottish and Irish instrument. Source: Foster, Ellsworth D. The American Educator (Chicago: Ralph Durham Company, 1921) Had viral collagists, God Speed You! Black Emperor occupied a space somewhere in Europe between 1969 and 1975, they may well have been tarred with the ugly pointed stick underpinning Progressive Rock. The nomenclature. Compared, uncharitably, to Tangerene Dream, their incestuous tangle is - to my nose - an altogether more appealing blend. Pardon me while I cough. Uncork the Coedine Linctus. The bagpipe is ...

Grails have no singer, but that doesn't stop them in communicating a wide swath of ideas and emotions using just instruments. They have successfully avoided getting penned in the so-called 'post-rock' ghetto where most vocal-less bands struggle to break free from, and bring facets of Italian and French soundtrack composers, an incredibly fluid rhythm section, and more than a passing interest in Asian folk melodies (cf. "Silk Rd"). One of the rare bands that get better as they release each record, this year's  Deep Politics  stands as an absolute tour de force, certainly a top 10 record of ...