Last month, the Flaming Lips got together with Providence noise kings Lightning Bolt to release a collaborative EP and drop the skree-bomb video for "I Wanna Get High But I Don't Want Brain Damage."…   Read Story »

Providence noise lifers Lightning Bolt have collaborated on an EP with Wayne Coyne. Here's a video for one of the tracks, "I Want to Get High But I Don't Want Brain Damage." (Much different than…   Read Story »

Sunday at Indio featured CSS, Delorean, HEALTH, Lightning Bolt, OFF!, the Strokes, a riot-free Death From Above 1979, MEN, Twin Shadow, Wiz Khalifa, and others, but it seems folks were largely…   Read Story »

Sunday's scheduled free show, bringing the temporarily reunited emo heroes of Cap'n Jazz to the East River Waterfront in Williamsburg for an inspired bill along with No Age, Lightning Bolt, and the…   Read Story »

The final day of 2010's Pitchfork Festival was just as hot as Saturday, with stages that needed quick shots of energy to pull the audience out of its languor. Girls were pretty but wispy -- though…   Read Story »

So far we've posted "Sound Guardians," the roaring opener from Lightning Bolt's fifth album Garden Of Earthly Delights, along with "Colossus," a grinder that earns its name. You'll start…   Read Story »

Lightning Bolt's fifth album Garden Of Earthly Delights (Load, 10/13) opens like a riot with "Sound Guardians." It's the perfect place to get acquainted with the collection, so we asked drummer Brian…   Read Story »

Lightning Bolt's fifth album Garden Of Earthly Delights (Load, 10/13) opens like a riot with "Sound Guardians." It's the perfect place to get acquainted with the collection, so we asked drummer Brian…   Read Story »

In its sixth year, Fuck Yeah Fest had the explicit intention of benefitting California's state parks, and implicit intention of scaring away media outlets afraid of things with "Fuck" in the title.…   Read Story »

Brian Chippendale and Brian Gibson release their fifth album Garden Of Earthly Delights in mid-October. The album title felt sort of Boschian when I heard it and turns out the album art kind of is as…   Read Story »