Disappears

”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....

Listen to new songs by Modest Mouse, Valee, Carly Rae Jepsen, Drugdealer, Sebadoh, Dead To A Dying World/Jarboe, Frou Frou, and more.

This week: a tribute to Ranking Roger, reviews of new albums from onetime Orange Juice frontman Edwyn Collins, French dreampop act Marble Arch, and Chicago's pitch-black FACS, and more.

This week: FACS rise from the ashes of Disappears, Stereolab's Tim Gane is back with his current group Cavern of Anti-Matter, Haley Bonar drops the "Bonar" and readies a Record Store Day Single, plus the new Dutch Velvet Underground and the return of Max Tundra by way of Daphne & …

FACS' debut album, Negative Houses, is out March 30 via Trouble in Mind.

In other news, Disappears offshoot FACS will play their first show in Chicago this month, opening for Joan of Arc.

Disappears' Noah Leger is an absolute beast of a drummer. The Chicago group were great before -- Leger is actually the band's third amazing drummer -- but since his joining in 2012, Disappears have become an unstoppable force, powerful and nuanced, bleak and sinewy...

The world is still reeling from the news of David Bowie's death, just two days after his 69th birthday (and the release of his great new album, Blackstar)...

& Amanda Hatfield



Every year is a good year for new music, but 2015 felt like the best one in a while. It was an especially great year for major label rap, after 2014 was an especially slow one, but it was good for plenty more than that too: folk, post-punk, indie pop, noise, art pop, punk, e…