The Phoenix-born Northern California/Brooklyn-based noisemakers Servile Sect play "sci-fi influenced black metal." It's even more awesome than that sounds. The band, featuring Luke Krnkr (one half of…   Read Story »

I like that "Sirens" sounds like it should -- a kind of half-submerged emergency whistle splashing around the Police Water. So far we've heard EP opener, the '80s sci-fi "Born Of Light," and the…   Read Story »

The last Gary War war video we posted featured cultish pyramids/triangles in the name of "Highspeed Drift"'s phased-out, suffocated new-wave psychedelia. That was last 2009. This futuristic Dionne…   Read Story »

Last fall Gary War offered "Highspeed Drift"'s phased-out/suffocated new-wave psychedelia (of the Blank Dogs sort), complete with cultish pyramids/triangles (or Tri Angles). A year later the New…   Read Story »

Aside from LCD Soundsystem (who ruled MHOW last night, btw), it's the return of Ariel Pink and his masterful Before Today LP that's owning the who-got-what-promo-when and hyperbolic-modifier dialog…   Read Story »

There's a good dose of Guided By Voices creeping inside the 86 second, lazed and disoriented decades-old pop vibe Velvet Davenport's throwing down in "Run." You have a minute and a half for this,…   Read Story »

Velvet Davenport are an interestingly weirdo, backward-glancing psychedelic Minneapolis sextet who, judging from their bloody Happy Ending album art, don't mind conjuring the Dwarves and/or Mudhoney…   Read Story »

This new Gary War video was directed by Jacqueline Castel, who set the mood for Blank Dogs' spooky "   Read Story »