BNLX

This week: reviews of new records from Julian Cope, the late Andrew Weatherall, Daisies, Spinning Coin, Capricorn One (Ed Ackerson, RIP), and Lithuanian minimal wave band Solo Ansamblis.

Read tributes to Ed from The Replacements, Low, Craig Finn, Motion City Soundtrack, Har Mar Superstar, and more.

Ed Ackerson, a Minneapolis musician, studio owner and recording engineer, is currently fighting stage 4 pancreatic cancer...

The album was produced by Justin's MCS bandmate Joshua Cain and it features David Jarnstrom (Gratitude, BNLX), and Justin is touring with Thin Lips and Pronoun.

It's an overstuffed Basement this week, with new records from UK eccentric Julian Cope, Ireland's Girls Names, German house producer DJ Koze, the return of Taken By Trees (aka Victoria Bergsman of The Concretes), '80s alt vets Shriekback, Montreal's gothy Freak Heat Waves, and s…

Minneapolis' arch noisepoppers BNLX are back with a new album, Good Light, which is out now on Susstones. As usual, Ed and Ashley Ackerson are not shy about their influences (mostly of the '80s college radio / UK indie variety) but they're canny songwriters and load the songs up with …

(photo: Ed Fruin)

BNLX, Minneapolis' premier psychedelic/noise/punk/situationist/"music" group, are set to release their eighth eponymous EP in April...

In addition to last year's debut album, Minneapolis post punks BNLX have spent the last few years cranking out EPs and will release #8 sometime soon...

As mentioned, Minneapolis' BNLX were just in NYC for a couple shows. Now back in their home state, the band have left us a present in the form of a new video for "Vibrant," a song off last year's full-length debut...

Minneapolis trio BNLX's debut album was one of my favorites of last year. It throws a variety of post punk styles into a blender, and manages both lip-curl attitude and tongue-in-cheek awareness at the some time...