Pirako Kurenai and Kageo have been making minimalist guitar pieces together as Suishou No Fune since 1999, and with their latest live album, Bonsai No Ie, the duo’s showing no signs of slowing down. Recorded in a concert held at Tokyo plant store, t…
Xiao Hong Yu Xiao Xiao Hong (Little Red, Small Little Red) is a Beijing-based duo comprised of Zhao Cong and Zhu Wenbo. Wenbo is a prime mover among the younger generation of experimental musicians in Beijing. He organizes a weekly Tuesday-night noise …
Baltimore’s Dope Body call Baltimore’s creative DIY hub the Copycat Building their home, even championing the landlord on the cover of their debut album, Nupping. With artists in residence since 1983 and starting a trend of converting commercial spac…
Prismatic overlays. Gritty VHS distortion. Vivid washes of adjusted color. Feverish streams of associative imagery. These are a few of our favorite things and just so happen to play the starring roles in Sean Patrick’s enticing visual accompanimen…
This video was made by Ela Orleans as a “movie for ears.” Citing artist/filmaker Bruce Connor as an inspiration, the vid is an assemblage of images narrating a psychedelic nightmare. The visual montage accentuates Ela’s hazy illusive melody a…
This hypnotic, dazzling video is the preview edit of the “15 Minute Exorcise” cassette/VHS by Brooklyn’s Prince Rama looks like a whimsical psych paraphrase of the ’80s aerobic VHS. Containing superimposed and cross-dissolved images of mountains…
This past Winter, you probably listened to more minimalist cold wave in the dank cave that you call a bedroom than you care to admit. It’s about time you considered going outside and talking to people again like a normal human being. You’ve become comf…
International Tapes DJs Luke Carrell (aka Simian Gibbons), Coco Zoabi, and Mr. Intl himself set Santos on fire last week while DJing at Prince Rama. This Monday, Intl Tapes will be pressing play all night long between performances from John Maus, Gary…
New Yorkers: International Tapes is teaming up with Prince Rama, The Present, and Total Slacker to bring you a night you’ll never forget. The event will take place in the city of dreams: Manhattan. Lots of movies have been shot on location there– Good…
After dropping their first single, “Full Moon (Death Classic),” Sacramento hip hop-noise hybrid Death Grips (featuring Zach Hill) just posted a new video for “Lord of the Game.” VHS-driven visuals continue to dominate DG’s aesthetic; a grainy, tor…