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Shellac Do What Most Bands Do: Play Shows on the Way to a Festival. Big Whoop. - Chicago rock dudes Shellac are playing, like, four shows leading up to their appearance at the totally badass All Tomorrows Parties in New York and then a few more to surround ATPs Release the Bats in October. I can hardly call this a tour. Theyre making their trip to the Catskills...

The Jesus Lizard -

Touch & Go's virtual shut-down earlier this year was one of the most heavy hitting tragedies in independent rock this decade. Having fostered, nurtured and birthed some of the most innovative and often twisted rock music of the past three decades, its end was one that left fans with a...

Vivian Girls Vivian Girls -

Ten songs of thrum and thrash in 21 minutes; the Vivian Girls are nothing if not direct. Their debut album (reissued on In The Red after a tiny, sold-out first run) is a thrilling combination of punk and C-86 pop, sounding part Wipers, part Shop Assistants and at times like...

Flipper Generic Flipper/ Gone Fishin’/ Sex Bomb Baby!/ Public Flipper Limited (live 1980- -

But apart from some of the tracks on the singles/ outtakes collection ‘Sex Bomb Baby!’ I’d probably stop there. That spans their output from thrashy punk to rumbling post-punk, including a punk version of nursery rhyme ‘The Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly’. They’re a lot more avant garde on...

Oh My God! New Adventure Land Comedy Contains...Good Music? -

You ever get in an awkward conversation with someone about your love of 80's music? In their mind, you are professing your embarrassing desire to wear a towering pink wig, and dance around the living room to a body-moving soundtrack of WHAM! and ERASURE. But really, all you want to...

Swans - My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky (2010) -

I really feel old when bands from the 90s reunite, but, HAHAHA, I cheat death this time: the eternal, raw holiness of Swans is still intact and life-giving after a thirteen year hiatus. “My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky” doesn’t skip a beat from late-period...

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