The World
Parquet Courts' A. Savage lists his Top 10 LPs of 2017
Plus: upcoming Parquet Courts tour dates.
watch Oakland post-punks The World’s new “Namaste” video (debut LP out now)
Oakland, CA’s The World release their terrific debut album, First World Record, today via Upset the Rhythm. If you dig danceable, skronky post-punk (Delta 5, Kleenex, Bush Tetras) with a sarcastic, situationist lyrical bent, The World bring energy, anger and pizazz it it.
Bay Area post-punks The World prep debut LP (stream it)
Oakland, CA’s The World, who share a couple members with Rays, make nervy, danceable indie rock indebted to scratchy, skronky late-’70s postpunk…
Cold Beat release new LP & "In Motion" video, playing Ceremony residency in L.A.
Cold Beat’s third album, Chaos by Invitation, is out today via main member Hannah Lew’s Crime on the Moon label. Lew, who made this record almost entirely on her own, warms up Cold Beat’s sound a little this time…
Australia's Lower Plenty released 'Sister Sister' (listen), tell us their Top 10 of 2016
The Melbourne band features members of Total Control, Dick Diver, Deaf Wish, and more.
NOTS ready 'Cosmetic' for Goner (listen to two songs), touring this fall
NOTS have not tamed their snarling, dystopian garage punk in the least for LP #2.
Gonerfest 13 lineup: Fred & Toody, Reigning Sound (original lineup), Spray Paint, Chook Race & more
Plus: Spray Paint release “Brat Beater” video and announce tour with The Rebel.
Not Dead Yet 2016 initial lineup (GLOSS, Turnstile, etc) ++ Lock playing NYC
Possibly North America’s premier punk/hardcore festival and the closest heir apparent to Chaos in Tejas (RIP), Not Dead Yet, returns for the 2016 year on October 13-16. Again the Toronto fest comes hard, dropping a mixed bag of everything from the buzziest band in the hardcore world to the buzziest in the punk underground…
Arthur Weinstein, RIP
Art passed yesterday, after a courageous fight with cancer. Known to everyone with clout in the nightclub industry, Art was a familiar face for a few decades…
