White Light

”Their one-afternoon, two-drummers, three-guitarists, no-rules jam evolved into a productive and glorious multi-day freakout, which resulted in the recording of these eight songs.”

Exclusive/special releases for today’s Bandcamp fundraiser include Superchunk, Archers of Loaf, Arab Strap, The Hold Steady, Straylight Run, Sacred Bones’ Black Sabbath tribute LP, !!!, The Helio Sequence, Cloud Nothings, Mogwai, and much more….

DOWNLOAD: Mountains – “Living Lens” (MP3) Mountains @ Lincoln Hall, February 2012 (more by Grant MacAllister) Brooklyn via Chicago drone duo Mountains are set to welcome their new album, Centralia, on January 22 via Thrill Jockey…

Kim Gordon @ NYC’s T5 earlier this month w/ Dino. Jr. (more by Gretchen Robinette) The Museum of Contemporary Art have detailed the remainder of their ongoing, free music series Face the Strange…

DOWNLOAD: Victor Villarreal – “Enters” (MP3) Victor Villarreal of Cap’n Jazz and its related projects (Joan of Arc, Owls, Ghosts & Vodka) is set to release his debut solo effort Invisible Cinema, out January 24th via Joyful Noise…

Disappears @ A.V. Fest (more by Matt Ziegler) We’re happy to say that according to Sonic Youth‘s blog, Chicago’s own Disappears (who they now share a drummer with) are at work on a new album due out in 2012…

The White Light Festival is an annual exploration of music’s power to illuminate our interior lives. From the powerful opening chords of Beethoven’s Missa solemnis to an exploration of light itself, to a meditation, Peter Sellars, and Rokia Traoré on the darkness of the soul that leads to the transcendence of love, the White Light Festival offers experiences of passionate beauty and occasions of profound insight into the many dimensions of our individual selves and the collective shared forces of the human condition…

HEALTH @ Knitting Factory (more by Ryan Muir) HEALTH returns to NYC on Saturday, June 20th for a New York Night Train show in Brooklyn – possibly at Danbro Studios, and possibly somewhere else (stay tuned)…