Detroit in the late 1990s was a scary and lawless place. Red lights were taken as a suggestion and gangs ran rampant in the city. Enter The Wildbunch. The band that later became the Electric Six got together in 1996 with a shared passion for high energy rock and roll music. Playing for years around…
William Basinski’s reputation as the foremost producer of profound meditations on death and decay has long been established, but on his new album, Lamentations, he transforms operatic tragedy into abyssal beauty. More than any other work since The Disintegration Loops, there is an ominous grief throughout the album, and that sense of loss lingers like…
I think what you will find as we go through the whole William Onyeabor catalog, is how great it is. How many artists can release eight great or pretty great albums. It is really something we have been impressed by as we have learned more and more about what he issued and the circumstances, such…
Inspired by the original Industrial Records release of William S. Burroughs’s Nothing Here Now but the Recordings, Belgian record label Sub Rosa worked with Burroughs to release another album: Break Through In Grey Room. Originally compiled in 1986 by producer Bill Rich, the album features Burroughs s experimental recordings from 1961 to 1976, featuring field…
In 1980, Genesis P-Orridge and Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson of (then-) Throbbing Gristle travelled to New York City to meet up at the fortified apartment, known as The Bunker, of famed beat writer and cultural pioneer William S. Burroughs and his executor James Grauerholz. Genesis and Sleazy started the daunting task of compiling the experimental sound…
WILLIAM TYLER composed the music for First Cow, the new A24 film directed by Kelly Reichardt, almost entirely on several of his guitars and a dulcimer. In First Cow, Kelly Reichardt once again trains her perceptive and patient eye on the Pacific Northwest, this time evoking an authentically hardscrabble early nineteenth century way of life….
WILLIAM TYLER s new record, Goes West, is the best music that he’s ever made. I’m sure of this because I know and love all of his music intimately, and this album moves me the most, and the most consistently. The first time I heard it was in the late spring in the Texas Hill…
Modern Country is the fourth full-length album by guitarist and composer WILLIAM TYLER and his first recorded outside of his hometown of Nashville, Tennessee. It features an ensemble backing group consisting of multi-instrumentalist PHIL COOL (HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER, BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA), bassist DARIN GRAY (TWEEDY, JIM O ROUKE), and percussionist GLENN KOTCHE (WILCO). The…
Eternal Return, the fourth full length from Richmond, Virginia s heavy psychedelic quartet WINDHAND represents a new era for the group, a chrysalis moment that takes them to new and unforeseen heights. Across nine songs and 63 minutes, Eternal Return is an infectious display of songcraft cloaked in alluring atmosphere, molten fuzz, eerie psychedelia and ethereal vocals. The album…
WINDHAND s third full length, Grief s Infernal Flower is doom metal s most anticipated album of 2015. Produced by Jack Endino (Nirvana, High On Fire, Soundgarden, etc) Grief s Infernal Flower is simultaneously massive, heavy and personal. Front-woman Dorthia Cottrell firmly establishes herself as one of the best vocalists of the genre by perfectly…
Hot on the heels of their debut 45 released on Colemine Records, German funk powerhouse The Winston Brothers re-up with their first-ever full length LP. “DRIFT” is the name of the game, presenting eleven versatile cuts to invite listeners on an all-instrumental trip back to the future of funk. But make no mistake: Though audibly…
WITCH was the first band in Zambia to release a commercial album — 1973’s Introduction. Blending the rock and roll sounds of UK rock bands like The Rolling Stones, Cream, and The Beatles together with more traditional African rhythms, WITCH pioneered a new genre dubbed Zamrock, and during their brief yet prolific existence, WITCH (an…
Two of Finland’s black metal hordes unite to compile and recite “Dead Christ Prayer,” an eight-track split release that represents both the country’s unique tradition and its future. Witchcraft, whose style pays reverence in no subtle way to the great Beherit, returns to expand its imprint and demonstrate its continued adherence to the unrefined bestiality…
Vinyl LP pressing. Deluxe 10th Anniversary edition. Rolling Papers is the third studio album by rapper Wiz Khalifa. The album features guest appearances from Too $hort, Curren$y and Chevy Woods. Rolling Papers was supported by five singles: Black and Yellow , Roll Up , On My Level , No Sleep and The Race .
Returning with their third scathing blast of profane black death metal, England’s Wode now join with 20 Buck Spin to unleash Burn In Many Mirrors, their most potently wild and predatory work yet. With six new tracks spanning forty minutes of meticulously summoned infernal ferocity, Wode scorch the landscape and drape it in the foul…