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(Long Branch/SPV)   www.spv.de   With its fourth album since reuniting in the early ‘00s, metal trio Prong finally blasts out a record to equal its early masterpieces Prove You more...

(Contraphonic)   www.contraphonic.com   Good songs shouldn't be difficult to find, but they are.  Instead, we focus on innovative recordings, cross-cultural meldings, grooves, more...

(Academy)   www.academyannex.com   Eight cuts from a nearly forgotten 1960s and 1970s Ghana funk band track a passage from laid-back Stax and Hendrix soul to an incendiary psychedeli more...

(No Quarter)   www.noquarter.net   An explosive burst of noise sets this CD in motion, red hot shrapnel of guitar noise flying every way from the center.  Only when the shock wav more...

(Sacred Bones)   www.sacredbonesrecords.com   For their third full-length, Brooklyn's Psychic Ills make a sharp left turn away from the trademark psychedelic squall of their previous more...

(Cargo/Sweet Nothing)   www.genesisp-orridge.com   Space doesn't allow me to go through even a cursory review of everything that the shamanistic musical antagonist Genesis P-Orridge more...

(Brah)   www.brahrecords.com   Pterodactyl comes out of a noisy, aggressive, art-punk tradition, a white noise enclave of tortured guitars and rapid-fire drum rampages. They record, more...

(Fire)   www.firerecords.com/   With a record as quixotic as Drumming for Pistols, it's hard to pin down the precise moment this Chicago-based married duo makes its Great Leap Forwar more...

(Ape House)   www.ape.uk.net   Although Dublin's Pugwash have been around for a decade or so now, most of their work has been distributed only in Ireland. This compilation finally i more...

(Saddle Creek)   www.saddle-creek.com   If one were to scratch out a blueprint for the archetypal indie-rock band, Nashville's Pujol would be the result. Founded by singer, guitaris more...