From The Darts To Black Viiolet: The Cultural Force Of Nicole Laurenne
With her many bands, Nicole Laurenne has spent the past decade building a body of work defined by nerve, range, and the refusal to be boxed in.
Inside The Noise Floor: Golgothor — Grava Sutra (VVR020)
And on the eighth day, the Lord bringeth Golgothor, casting unto His righteous flock the Grava Sutra, a sacrament of prophetic doom, banishment, and spilt bong water.
Inside The Noise Floor: Kettle’s On — Paul Gascoigne Ain’t No David Gascoigne (VVR018)
Keith Murphy aka Kettle’s On turns council-flat misery and boredom into hilarious rants set to hip beats, angular guitar, post-punk basslines, and several cups of Lipton’s tea.
Inside The Noise Floor: Schlüsselchrist — Key Of Christ (VVR016)
For Düsseldorf’s Schlüsselchrist, a decade of global angst curdled into libertarian doctrine: eight brutal tracks warning of technocracy, engineered belief, and our manipulated future.
Hitting The Brown Note With No Wave Pioneers Swans
With a reputation as bowel-antagonists, no wave pioneers Swans have registered the closest frequency to executing the elusive brown note.
Inside The Noise Floor: Wire Doll — Active Directive (VVR015)
Melbourne’s Wire Doll have dropped their debut EP Active Directive, jolting the airwaves with swagger, brainiac concepts, and punk rock venom.
The Weekly Earhole: Reverb Motherfuckers — Route 666
The vinyl crate is more than a record graveyard whose fate was sealed the moment it appeared on a yacht rock compilation — it’s also where you’ll find reverb, motherfucker.
Action Time Vision: How Alternative TV Shattered the Punk Image
In a 1970’s punk culture obsessed with image and aggression, Alternative TV brought something more fragile, more fractured, and more frighteningly real.
Would Ornette Coleman Have Liked The Spoof Maggots?
With the Spoof Maggots nod to jazz icon Ornette Coleman on ‘The Shape of Spunk to Cum’, one question comes to mind: would he have liked them?
feedtime: Treacle Rock Renegades to Grunge overlords
Certain pundits are of the belief the slide guitar is a restrictive medium, limited within the confines of a sepia stereotype; boy, are they mistaken.
Weekly Earhole: King Snake Roost — From Barbarism to Christian Manhood (1987)
Mutating from the addled ashes of Grong Grong, King Snake Roost breached earholes with a perverse blend of jazz, punk, and mind-altering barbarism.
The MC5: How the City of Detroit Spawned a Rock & Roll Revolution
The story of Detroit’s White Panther movement, MC5, and how John Lennon helped free leader John Sinclair is as pertinent now as it was in the 1960s.