Don Juan y Los Blancos’ bat-out-of-hell garage rock evokes both knife-fights and backseat make-out sessions where the blood gets licked from the wounds. It’s Wanda Jackson, but really, it’s Suzi Quatro. We speak to co-lead singers Becky Blanca and Don Juan Villicana about nerds, fights, geese, pinball and hate. This interview by Lainna Fader.

Brian Jonestown Massacre and frontman/multi-instrumentalist Anton Newcombe have just released their newest album Aufheben, and Newcombe puts on his Peter Fonda sunglasses for a colossal interview, the first part of which we present here. They play tomorrow at the Wiltern and will be doing a laser light show listening party for Aufheben—yes, with actual lasers—on Sunday. This interview by Chris Ziegler.

Justin Maurer of Clorox Girls vs. tortas, toilets and ball-punchers in this excerpt from his upcoming chapbook, “Seventeen Television,” out on Vol. 1 Brooklyn–soon!

Last year, New York label RVNG International sent Cameron Stallones of Sun Araw and longtime partner-in-drone M. Geddes Gengras to Jamaica to make a record with the Congos, one of the most legendary reggae bands of all time. Icon Give Thank is out now on RVNG INTL. This interview by Chris Ziegler.

Death Grips’s Ex-Military was a fearsome album—beats sourced from several banned records, lyrics about life in the edge cities with shout-outs to the Minutemen and time travel. Their new album is out now and they are righteous. This interview by Rebecca Haithcoat and Chris Ziegler.

Sonny Vincent’s Testors are the great lost punk band of New York City ‘77—high-intensity guitar warfare at its finest that went almost totally unreleased until a trickle of issues in the 2000s and a deluxe discog on John Reis’ Swami that presented the Testors in all their gory glory. Vincent brings thirty years of punk rock ‘n’ roll to Blue Star tonight. This interview by Chris Ziegler.

She’s cutely referred to as the Mexican Sia, but you should know her by name, even if it challenges your tongue: Ximena Sariñana. This interview by Daiana Feuer.

Summer Twins are not twins, but they are a pair of sisters who make vintage-sounding girl rock, and their ascent along the x-axis of fame could soon be more inspiring to a lot of young people than Al Gore’s hockey stick. They play this Friday at Desert Daze with Bleached, Audacity and more. This interview by D.M. Collins.

Jimmy Cliff is to Jamaican music what James Brown was to R&B, if Brown had just worked a little harder. Cliff helped get ska off the ground, popularized reggae, even starred in the first reggae movie, The Harder They Come. Touring with Tim Armstrong and a tight band of mod-looking youngsters, Cliff seems set to inspire the world yet again. This interview by D.M. Collins.