Viagra Boys : Viagr Aboys

First time I’d ever heard Sweden’s Viagra Boys was opening for Queens of the Stone Age. I had an idea of what a band called Viagra Boys would sound like, and my imagination did not disappoint. But what I didn’t expect was to like them as much as I did. The 6-piece Swedish post-punk band […]

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The Smile : Cutouts

The Smile -the Radiohead side project of Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood- shouldn’t work as well as it does. Like Yorke’s solo albums and Greenwood’s film scores they are great listening experiences, but we’re always waiting for them to get back together with their Radiohead counterparts and give us another masterpiece. Since 2022 Yorke and […]

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Feverdreamt Returns With New Album ‘Decay Is Present’, Out 4/12; Listen To New Single “The Wallowing(Die Another Time)”

Musician, label runner, and all around musical force Alexander Donat seems to always be in a creative cycle. Whether he’s releasing music under the monkier Vlimmer, Fir Cone Children, Assassun, or Feverdreamt; releasing music from other artists as label head for Blackjack Illuminist Records, or brainstorming unique and conceptual ways of releasing music in physical […]

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Idles : Tangk

Idles started out as this punk/pub hybrid of a band. You could hear the sound they were heading towards on their first two records, Brutalism(2017) and Joy as an Act of Resistance(2018), but the Bristol band were still finding themselves. It wasn’t until Ultra Mono(2020) that the post-punk stomp and singer Joe Talbot’s barking militant […]

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Feu Follet Returns With ‘Lost Locust’, Out 10/6; Listen To New Single “Fluid Bodies”

French multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Alban Blaising is readying a brand new Feu Follet album called Lost Locust, out on 10/6. The one-man electronic/post-punk project has been quite prolific, releasing 4 albums since 2019 on German label Blackjack Illuminist. Lost Locust will make number 5, and once again Blaising is releasing on Alexander Donat’s fantastic label. […]

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