If the much-loved genius-punks of Wire were thirty years ahead of their time at the time of 1977's unspeakably great Pink Flag, that would mean we're all just catching up with them now (I'm looking at you, every "post-punk" band out there …

Former Silkworm members form new band, Bottomless Pit Following the death of drummer Michael Dahlquist in a 2005 car accident, unassuming indie rock mainstays Silkworm were gone-- but not forgotten by the loyal cult of fans who kept them g…

Mark those calendars now: January 22, 2008 is the day we cash in all those Best Buy and Target holiday gift cards* and purchase copies of Cat Power's previously discussed sophomore plunge into the realm of cover-dom. The date comes from a …

Subtle's had a bad run. As we've reported in these pages, in the last two years, the genre-bending Oaklend sextet survived a tour van crash that left keyboardist Dax Pierson a quadriplegic, were robbed in Europe, and their major label debu…

Satan says, "You're welcome." Like their music, White Magic's sorcery is a low-key affair. We're talking Level 1 Wicca stuff, Level 2 at the most. So for the follow-up to their 2006 debut full-length, Dat Rosa Mel Apibus, instead of gather…

Selling out just ain't what it used to be. The concept is as ambiguous and potentially moot as ever, but now it usually comes with handy explanatory quotes. Just ask Kim Gordon, who, along with the rest of Sonic Youth, has taken some flak …

With all the difficult-to-decipher doodling going down in Camp Radiohead these days, it's nice to get a little information-- even if it is, in fact, very little information-- from one of indie rock's other pillars. Information that doesn't…

On vacation from Sonic Youth, Thurston Moore brought the surname-free Trees Outside the Academy inside an academy of sorts this past Thursday, rocking Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. It was College Night, which meant young men and women of l…

Recovering noiseniks and current Sonic Youth BFFs Magik Markers have announced the dates of a fall tour in support of their forthcoming complete-with-actual-"songs" LP, BOSS. The record comes out on Ecstatic Peace on September 25, and the …

Hey babe, take a walk on the brightside A couple years back, I recall seeing a very out-of-place-looking Lou Reed at some MTV event or another talking to Gideon Yago, decrying the network's recent resistance to rock music. Yago asked Reed …

You wake, wipe the crust from your eyes (or don't), have a drink of water (if it's potable, or not), roll over to the other side of the bed (if you have a bed), and then punk out all the live long day. Such is the oddly glamorous life of a…

Surely it's been said before, but it bears repeating: Tiny Masters of Today are exactly that. Tiny. Barely-teenaged bro Ivan and sis Ada-- two years Ivan's junior-- threw a few tracks on MySpace some months back, which caught the attention…

Hard to believe it's been over a year now since Sleater-Kinney played their final show (repeat after me: "It's just an indefinite hiatus. It's just an indefinite hiatus."). And indefinite hiatus though it may be, the vacationing members of…

Oneida celebrating 10th anniversary Furniture Records released the second of six installments of its Sheets of Easter Everywhere cassette singles club this week. In keeping with the concept of the series, the new volume features covers of …

Hilly Kristal, founder of New York City's legendary rock club CBGB, died yesterday (August 28) following a battle with lung cancer, according to various reports. He was 75. Kristal opened CBGB in the Lower East Side's then-seedy Bowery nei…

Chances are, if you know the Slits, you know Cut. That cover! Those songs! That influence! That cover! You're probably less familiar with what came next: The Slits followed Cut, their 1979 debut, with 1981's Return of the Giant Slits, an e…

Say, Antony, what's the latest? You've been doing "a lot more work on the new album" at New York's Allaire Studios? You're spending your days "editing and mulling over different versions of each song, trying to figure out what goes where"?…

Simeon Coxe has revived his legendary psych/proto-electronic outfit Silver Apples for its first tour since 1999. The tour comes on the heels of the release of a split seven-inch with One Cut Kill on Gifted Children Records, featuring an ac…

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Arp preps debut LP, single Former Tussle mastermind Alexis Georgopoulos will release the debut album from his newest project, Arp, on November 6. The album, In Light, will come out via Smalltown Supersound, and despite its electronic natur…

Bon voyage! Thurston Moore's heading out on a vision quest or two in late September and October, when he'll play a handful of dates in support of his second solo joint, Trees Outside the Academy, out September 18 on his Ecstatic Peace labe…

Buzz band about town (NYC, that is) Vampire Weekend have signed to venerable indie label XL-- current home of M.I.A., Dizzee Rascal, and Devendra Banhart, to name just a few-- to release their full-length debut in January. But first, they'…

Yes way, José. While you were busy blinking, six-string serenader José González went and added a whole bunch of dates to his upcoming tour in support of In Our Nature, out September 25 on Mute. Seems peregrination is in young José's nature…

Which is it, Kember? Spectrum? Sonic Boom? Experimental Audio Research? Or the name that your momma gave you? Whatever you care to call him, Pete "Sonic Boom" Kember of Spacemen 3 and his band, Spectrum, have North American tour dates aple…

Veteran troubadour Vic Chesnutt has teamed up with a hefty slice of the post-rock friendly Constellation Records roster and a few other notables for North Star Deserter, out on CD and double-LP from the label August 27 in Europe and Septem…

When she's not filling her MySpace blog with exhortations to buy eco-friendly cars or using it to ask "whatchall feel about Obama + Hillary??," Shortlist Prize winner and Pitchfork Music Festival alumna Chan Marshall (aka Cat Power) occasi…

今年2月に『Cake or Death』日本盤をリリースした、アメリカが誇るプロデューサー／ソングライター、リー・ヘイゼルウッドが8月4日、ネバダ州ラスベガス郊外の自宅にて、息を引き取りました。3年間に渡る闘癌生活を経て、今年8月初めに78歳の誕生日を迎えた…

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The Brooklyn-based underground performance space / art collective Mighty Robot threw some of the best shows and parties New York City saw at the beginning of this young millennium, introducing the world to bands like the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, T…

And J Mascis plays drums on it Believe it. Psych-folkies Matt Valentine and Erika Elder, perhaps better known by their initials, MV & EE (or MV/EE, if you will), return less than a year after their last longplayer-- Green Blues-- with yet …