Genghis Tron

This week’s playlist also includes new music by Billy Nomates, Half Waif, Regional Justice Center, Teenage Fanclub, Xiu Xiu ft. Grouper, The Notwist, Lost Horizons ft. Marissa Nadler, Sophia Kennedy, Squid, Goat Girl, Buggin, Mikau, p.s.you’redead, Shovels & Rope ft. Sharon Van Etten, Flying Raccoon Suit, Chelsea Wolfe and Emma Ruth Rundle, Arabrot, Colossus, Madlib and Four Tet, Portrayal of Guilt, The Sonder Bombs, Tribulation, The Chills, Juliana Hatfield, and more.

As promised, Genghis Tron are finally back with their first new music in 13 years, and they sound great.

From legends like At The Gates and Carcass and Eyehategod and King Diamond and Iron Maiden to newer bands we’re excited about like Enforced and Gravesend and Suffering Hour and Sepulcros…

Original vocalist Mookie Singerman isn’t involved but the band now includes vocalist Tony Wolski (The Armed) and drummer Nick Yacyshyn (Sumac, Baptists).

Is Genghis Tron’s decade-long hiatus finally over?

Genghis Tron @ Coachella 2009 (more by Darren Kim) All My Children video at Gawker. Genghis Tron video below…

“Coachella exists in two time zones: the event itself and its digital afterlife. The second zone, on cameras and blogs and Twitter and video-sharing sites, comes a heartbeat after the first, like a rockabilly slap-back echo…

Black Anvil, in mid thrash. The bunny was shown no mercy on Easter Sunday, as Genghis Tron, Tombs, Wetnurse, and Black Anvil took care of business at Public Assembly (4/12)…

Genghis Tron Live at Europa, 3/27/09 (more by Justina Villanueva) Pelican and Tombs have been added to select dates of the previously mentioned Isis tour including the currently on sale show at Irving Plaza on June 2nd…

That singer from Ceremony got ups, yo! Did I brush shoulders with death during Converge‘s set? Nate Newton’s swinging bass whizzing inches from my face, Jacob Bannon’s foot on my hand as the crowd fought to tear me a part, nor Jacob’s swinging microphone straight out of a Roger Daltrey/Who video caused my near collapse…