POSTED // Sep 16,2009 - After Robots is best devoured as an album of moments. BLK JKS, a South African gang of four...

POSTED // Sep 16,2009 - One EP? You’d think a band that’s been together for three years would have more recordings under their belt or, at the very least, a full-length album ...

POSTED // Sep 9,2009 - This could be the first-ever usage of the term “Ogden supergroup”: AM Revelator is comprised of ex-members of O-Town favorites AK Charlie, Gundhi and Invisible Rays, and yet doesn’t really sound like any of ’em ...

POSTED // Sep 2,2009 - Something about Scandinavia recently seems to make it the progenitor of old-style garage rock roll.

POSTED // Aug 26,2009 - Pissed have a shtick, and its a winning one: by juxtaposing a terrifying, lo-fi, 80s-style hardcore/noise rock squall with lyrics about commonplace subjects (scrapbooking, yuppie joggers, boring girls, etc.), they comment on the numbing mediocrity of the suburban world that bred the Allentown, Pennsylvania gangs aging ennui.

POSTED // Aug 12,2009 - Remember those large, brightly colored markers you had when you were a child, almost as much fun to smell as to draw with? Oh well, maybe your childhood was a little different from mine.

POSTED // Jul 29,2009 - So, Mark Kozelek has a sense of humor--who knew? "A woman on the train said, 'Wherever you're going with all that gear, they better appreciate you,'" the former Red House Painters singer/songwriter...

POSTED // Jul 15,2009 - Tracks like "Red Camera" and "The Midnight Sun" set a bar of dark-psych rock that pervades throughout the album with a concoction of feedback, weird noises, whammy-bends, and maplesyrup-thick fuzz...

POSTED // Jul 8,2009 - It was six years ago that the romance between Rancid ringleader Tim Armstrong and The Distillers dominatrix Brody Dalle publicly fell to pieces. As one of the few notable pairs in punk ...

POSTED // Jun 24,2009 - When your musical output consists of remixing and producing other people's songs, your agenda is a little different than that of most. But then, Richard Jankovich--aka "Pocket"--is the remixer's remixer.