A few days late but stacked with excellence, here is your collection of May's absolute jams. For optimal ease of consumption, you'll find it here in three forms: a 12-track downloadable zip of the…   Read Story »

We got the goods on the new Fuck Buttons (new FUCK BUTTONS!) record a couple weeks back, and now, some music: "The Red Wing" is the third track on the duo's third LP, Slow Focus, and it's presented…   Read Story »

The Bristol duo Fuck Buttons have been taking their time crafting their latest tsunami of chaotic skree and psychedelic gloop. The staggering Tarot Sport, their last album, is now four years old, and…   Read Story »

Last Friday, a few of us spent the end of our Friday afternoons attempting to watch choppy illegal streams of the BBC's Olympics coverage -- exactly the sort of thing NBC was trying to prevent us…   Read Story »

When we posted Blanck Mass's "Land Disasters," I quoted the man behind the project, Fuck Buttons' Benjamin John Power, as saying, among other things: "Soundtracking nature documentaries would work…   Read Story »

Last year, Fuck Buttons' Benjamin John Power recorded an album's worth of material in his London apartment under the moniker Blanck Mass. The band name and cover art unfortunately evoke the Faint,…   Read Story »

At this point people know what to expect from Kutscher's: The faded Catskills resort's crumbling walls held together by mold, broken everything (we were forced to do our own DIY toilet plumbing,…   Read Story »

The video clip for "Surf Solar" transformed a rookery of spastic penguins into a kaleidoscope. Going a more straightforward route, the treatment for the Tarot Sport's "Olympians" finds the Bristol…   Read Story »

When the All Tomorrow's Parties festival first launched, the idea of canonizing an iconic album with a track-for-track live performance was still a novel concept. A decade later the album-recreation…   Read Story »

Taking a break from their Tarot Sport(s), Andrew Hung and Benjamin John Power offer their distinctively kaleidoscopic crunch to an imploded twisting of Manic Street Preachers' "Virginia State…   Read Story »