Soul brothers Tonstartssbandht & Run DMT went on tour last year. The vibe was strong– noted in a few really great videos from that tour (specifically Silent Barn and a show in TX). Before they set out on that tour, the guys concocted a VHS of i…
WARNING: Megazord notes, “this may cause seizures.” You’ve been warned.
Zord’s latest video work comes in the form of another phenomenal Rene Hell cut. The video seems to take Hell’s rambling arpeggiations to heart, remixing (and rehashing) Ar…
Eric Fensler’s warped-retro vignette for Geneva Jacuzzi’s “Clothes on the Bed” is probably the greatest depiction of teen angst meets bad acid I’ve seen. Casio new-wave in the bedroom leads to mirror-singing, and of course, singing in the mirror alw…
How I Quit Crack is the nom de plume of Austin’s Ernestina Forbis, who has been crafting sublime inroads into very dark places for more than a year. Between screwing the shit out of Nirvana, turning Chris Isaac’s “Wicked Game” into a 9-minute extende…
By Michael P. McGregor
Berlin’s Hans-Joachim Roedelius, famed for his synthesizer work with Harmonia, Cluster and Brian Eno, is one of the uncontested masters of modern electronic composition. Released thirty-one years ago on Hamburg’s legendary S…
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Fresh off the release of Night Dolls With Hairspray, alien vessel James Ferraro is back with more transmissions from some twisted place far, far away. Labeled “iAsia 2 RAVER” on his digital skin SoundCloud, this extended 30-…
Ducktails is raising money via Kickstarter to get his recent collaboration with Panda Bear, ”Killin the Vibe”, on wax. The 12″ will feature two new tracks from the duck, as well as another rendition of the song featuring Spectrals, who backed him up…
After much soul-searching, I’m reluctant to admit that San Francisco’s Melted Toys are a synth-pop band. Sure, they have a certain penchant for synthetic tones, but the sounds are not meant to bathe the listener in thick, nostalgic gravy. What we…
Hovering above like a Google satellite, Soothsayer, the latest project from Steve Rosborough, is a bi-lateral observation from points far beyond reach. Much like the celestial synthesis of Software and eternal dream seekers Stars of the Lid, Soothsayer…
Following a brief hiatus, Pure X (formerly Pure Ecstasy) are back with a self-released 12″ of “free-form jams and proto-versions of songs” from their forthcoming full-length. Initially released as a West Coast tour tape (long sold out), the session fin…