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“I’m just runnin’ a temperature / Happiness is for amateurs,” Jason Collett drawls on Rat A Tat Tat’s first track, “Rave On Sad Songs,” perhaps mocking the role of a self-pitying folkie, embracing ... Lees meer

On Clipd Beaks’ 2007 album Hoarse Lords, each mangled analog-synth whoop, feral vocal, and pick-stabbed bassline entered the mix as abruptly as a set of tire spikes. The band makes these and ... Lees meer

Retribution Gospel Choir’s live sets have already proven that singer-guitarist Alan Sparhawk and bassist Steve Garrington don’t sacrifice their meticulous sense of sonics when they step... Lees meer

L.A.’s Health takes a pair of tweezers to noise music rather than a buzzsaw, meticulously crafting distinctive sounds with guitars and weird pedals, creating plenty of bleak dynamics and pop ... Lees meer

“Coward,” the first track on Vic Chesnutt’s At The Cut, finds the oft-morbid songwriter whipping himself to the edge of the abyss, with eerie death-march strings and excoriating electric guit... Lees meer

Apostle Of Hustle still sounds like a work in globetrotting, haphazard progress on its third album, Eats Darkness. That’s both its charm and its downfall. Darkness ponders strife and violence both ... Lees meer

Apostle Of Hustle still sounds like a work in globetrotting, haphazard progress on its third album, Eats Darkness. That’s both its charm and its downfall. Darkness ponders strife and violence both ... Lees meer

Big Business bassist Jared Warren and drummer Coady Willis churn up the tonal equivalent of an oil spill, and write songs too violently catchy for the usual “sludge” and “stoner-rock” tags. Their b... Lees meer

Wolves In The Throne Room began their second album, 2007’s Two Hunters, by pulling a hazy cloud of stately doom-drone over themselves before launching into black-metal convulsions. Their third full... Lees meer