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Jack's Mannequin

People and Things

(Sire)   www.sirerecords.com   I guess emo kids can grow up... well, sort of.   On People and Things, the band's third release, California-based Jack's Mannequin has finally m more...

Ghost Wolves

In Ya Neck

(self-released)   www.theghostwolves.com   Oh holy shit. This guit-drum duo will make a man outta any of you little boys within earshot, and as for any of you l'il gals... whew. And more...

Radio Moscow

The Great Escape of Leslie Magnafuzz

(Alive)   www.alive-totalenergy.com   Picture this: Victor Frankenstein enters his dark laboratory with a head full of acid, the DNA of heavy blues based bands like Black Sabbath, Bl more...

Mark McGuire

Get Lost

(Editions MEGO)   www.editionsmego.com   Emeralds guitarist Mark McGuire continues to churn out new music like his life depended on it. And not even a year after the release of his a more...

Fairlamb

People Change

(self-released)   www.fairlamb.bandcamp.com   Precious little info accompanies this delectable dozen's worth of indiepop and folk, although the names "Suzanne Fairlamb" and "Suzy Cal more...

Nous Non Plus

Freudian Slip

(Aeronaut)   www.aeronautrecords.com   The French have never had much luck at making rock ‘n' roll. Their language's flowery rhythms roll in nearly direct opposition to rock's more...

Lazyflux

Lazyflux

 (self-released)   www.lazyflux.com   Take some vintage interstellar Floyd, sprinkle lightly with motorik-drone Can, dose liberally with globs of shoegazey Ride and Stone Roses, more...

Pterodactyl

Spills Out

(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...

MANRAZE

PunkFunkRootsRock

(Rocket Science Ventures)   www.rocketscienceventures.com   Fierce attitude comes out of London from an alternative/punk rock trio called MANRAZE, originally formed in 2004 by Def Lep more...

Weasel Walter

Duets with Peter Evans, Mary Halvorson, Darius Jones and Alex Ward: Ominous Telepathic Mayhem

(ugEXPLODE)   www.ugexplode.com   An omnipresent force in underground music since the early ‘90s, extreme musician, multi-instrumentalist and record label entrepreneur Weasel W more...


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