On the new double album Drifters/Love Is The Devil, Alex Zhang Hungtai's Dirty Beaches project pushes its combination of tense lo-fi noise and sweaty rockabilly beyond its logical conclusion, laying…   Read Story »

Alex Zhang Hungtai’s Dirty Beaches will release Drifters/Love Is The Devil later this month and "Casino Lisboa" is his third offering from the LP. What starts as almost drone's version of doo wop…   Read Story »

Here's the second offering from Alex Zhang Hungtai's upcoming album. "Landscapes In The Mist" is, in its own way, fairly more energetic than the first release "Love Is The Devil." It's a free jazz…   Read Story »

While Alex Zhang Hungtai's breakthrough 2011 Badlands LP was most memorable for its greasy rockabilly (by way of Suicide, the Cramps, and David Lynch), he's been experimenting with sounds and styles…   Read Story »

Kingfisher Bluez, a Vancouver indie label, is launching a new subscription singles series, sending out a limited number of one-sided 7" singles. Artists like Rose Melberg and Apollo Ghosts have…   Read Story »

Tourmates Xiu Xiu and Dirty Beaches will release a split 7'' for Record Store Day, featuring Xiu Xiu's cover of Erasure's "Always" and Dirty Beaches' cover of Françoise Hardy's "Tu Ne Dis Rien."…   Read Story »

The decomposing-rockabilly auteur Dirty Beaches has a new limited-edition single out. The A-side is a live version of "Lone Runner," and the B-side is a pounding, squalid track called "Stye Eye,"…   Read Story »

This week's music-video MVP was whoever was responsible for researching New York signage in Kindness's "Cyan" video. That must've taken a lot of work! As good as that video was, though, it couldn't…   Read Story »

Pretty much nothing is as it seems in this eerie clip for 40 Best New Bands alum Dirty Beaches' "Lone Runner," a clip that's paired perfectly with the haunted, vintage feel of the track.…   Read Story »

Last year, right around the time summer turned to fall, we at Stereogum published our list of the 40 best new bands of the year. The idea of a "new" band is a pretty nebulous one, since many of the…   Read Story »