SURGICAL RENAISSANCE – SURGICAL II
Over the last several years, Burlington, VT has had one of the most fruitful local scenes, birthing a wealth of pop, noise,…
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Chris Defalco
SISSY SPACEK – INCOMPREHENSIBLE DEHUMANIZATION & GATE
To start the year off, John Wiese’s Sissy Spacek has two new 7”s out: Incomprehensible Dehumanization on Gilgongo Records and Gate on…
THE DEAD C – ARMED COURAGE
The Dead C are New Zealand’s long running experimental/noise rock trio. The band’s 14th and newest LP, Armed Courage, out on Ba…
L.O.T.I.O.N. – First Audio Document 2013
L.O.T.I.O.N. is one of the newer NYC bands, a duo comprised of members of Survival, Nomad, and Zatsuon. Their first demo is…
SICK SEED – HELSINGIN SYNAGOGAT
Sick Seed is Pekka Perä-Takala, the Finnish noise/power electronics musician who runs the Untergeschoss label and is a member of the noisecore…
UMBILICAL CORD – UMBILICAL CORD
The debut record from the Bay Area’s Umbilical Cord, out now on Video Disease Records, shows area stalwarts in fine form. The…
CCR HEADCLEANER – CCR HEADCLEANER
I remember stumbling onto this band several years ago on some random online mixtape. The track was some ugly noisy garage rock…
LUMPY AND THE DUMPERS – SEX PIT
St Louis’ Lumpy And The Dumpers have put out one of 2013’s most essential records in their debut 7”, Sex Pit, out…
CUT HANDS – DAMBALLAH 58
With Cut Hands, Whitehouse founder and power electronics pioneer William Bennett plays what he calls “afro-noise.” Using primarily polyrhythmic African drumming, Bennett…
OLHO SECO – OLHO SECO
2013 was a big year in terms of reissues, collections, and demo compilations, from the release of the 17-piece Can boxset released…
PESADILLA DISTOPIKA – “No Hay Ninguna Manera De Eskapar”
After releasing a solid demo earlier this year, Los Angeles’ Pesadilla Distopika step it up with their new EP, No Hay Ninguna…
Altar Of Flies – “Female”
Female, on Peripheral Records, was the first of two LPs released in 2013 by Sweden’s Altar of Flies, the noise/experimental project of…
