Spray Paint

Spray Paint's new album, ’Into the Country,’ is out October 25, and the RIP Monofonus Press Weekend in Austin includes performances by The Rebel, Ghetto Ghouls, Sun Araw, Obnox, and more.

This week: the return of Comet Gain and Amusement Parks on Fire, plus more Stereolab vinyl reissues, Spray Paint meet The Rebel, new Welsh band Adwaith, and Davey Woodward (The Brilliant Corners, Experimental Pop Band).

Tonight's NYC-area shows include Death Cab For Cutie, Robyn Hitchcock, Tribulation, Lucero, Modest Mouse, The Scientists, Von LMO benefit, The Revolution, Django Django, Satan, The Beths, and more.

Detroit's Protomartyr and Austin's Spray Paint toured together back in 2014 and, while on the road, hatched an idea to release a record where each band would record an instrumental, and then have the other band sing on it. Four years later...

Prolific musician Dan Melchoir has teamed with Austin's acerbic art-punks Spray Paint for a new project they call Contributors. The result is somewhere in between both of their inclinations: dark post-punk that has room for stretching out (and rocking out)...

We took these Detroit post-punk pizza-lovers to try this Brooklyn hot spot. Will they pan it?

Plus: Spray Paint release "Brat Beater" video and announce tour with The Rebel.

Whitney Johnson of Verma has a new album coming out via her Matchess solo project. The Rafter will be out June 3 via Monofonus Press, which once again displays her skills at making eerie, often unnerving, music. We've got the premiere of "The Fog" off the album, a haunting instrumental that weaves synths, strings, choral voices to splendid, haunting effect...

Austin's tightly-wound, astringent punks Spray Paint will release their new album Feel the Clamps on June 3 via Goner...

The Brooklyn multi-venue festival pulls in some big, big headliners this year.