Plus: Curve, Ryley Walker & Kikagaku Moyo, Activity, Sonic Youth's Steve Shelley & Disappears, 'Earbudz Vol 1,' Mark Mulcahy, Grant-Lee Phillips, and more.
”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....
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 & …
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...