Thanks for the steady input! Appreciated!

Yeah Endless Boogie are dope, they're 60 and rock harder than kids half their age. Can be a bit cheesy in places but the records are loads of fun.

If anyone wants ear poison I'd suggest checking out the above.

Saw them last month and they were superb, will be getting the record for sure, plus it has great cover art.

Yeah I was at that gig too, they were brilliant. The album has some killer tracks on it, one of my favourites from this year for sure.

it's okay, you're not good enough to listen to them

merzbow - takahe collage

partikel iii with nordvagr also good.



shampoo boy - licht




inga copeland - higher powers tape http://soundcloud.com/cplnd/faith/

the new dean blunt is a beauty

I still haven't heard it, unfortunately, although I did hear him play it almost in full in march. bizarre show, throughout there were rain sounds (which I understand to be on the album?) and a security guard on the stage next to dean, who left for minutes at a time and then reappeared, crooned and fucked off.

you're so lucky to have seen him live... dean blunt & inga copeland are amongst the most interesting artists at the moment in my opinion

Holy shit did Alex ever step up his game for this new Dirty Beaches album.

just got back from ende tymes fest night 3, didnt stay past zaimph, littled noised out, check out my coverage here www.thedeclarationofmusicalindependence.com

I just got the Pharmakon album, it's pretty cool. It reminds me of early Swans in places especially the track pitted.

New Dirty Beaches also sounded pretty good on first listen, the first record especially which I enjoyed a bit more out of the two is very Alan Vega.

I'm on the fence about this one. On first listen I thought about this post (above) and wondered what in the hell you could possibly be talking about. But I listened again, and then again, and noticed the hypnotic quality of the album. I still don't know how I feel about it, but the fact that I keep listening, and slowly finding things to like about it, makes me think it may just be a grower. I'd still be interested to know why you think it's a step up. Just out of curiosity.

New Dirty Beahces album makes me want to travel to an ugly decadent city alone, buying a bottle of cheap moonshine and scoring some high grade un-government regulated narcotic painkillers, stopping in whore houses, dangerous bars and unclean tattoo parlors. All while reflecting on the events with a leather jacket on my back and a pen and paper in my pocket.

I don't need a new Dirty Beaches record to feel like that. In fact, I think you've managed to define my subconscious with uncanny accuracy.

... Guess I know why I keep putting the damn album on without ever really knowing what I enjoy about it. Creepy thought.

Hands in the Dark is possibly my favourite new label. 3 excellent releases by them include the dreamy haze of Death & Vanilla, doomy psych of Robedoor & the meditative ambience of Cankun (above). Check their soundcloud out

https://soundcloud.com/hitd

I've become totally subsumed by this record. It is epic

This album has zoomed straight to number 1 in my list for this year. Just incredible.

That simply MUST be Rodney Mullen there in the picture kicking that three-flip.. The guy would be the Michael Jordan of skateboarding if he just wasn't so emotionally fragile..