This is music for burning buildings to the ground, smashing police car windows, and attacking anyone in sight. The eleven-track album is relentless.

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A Day Late & A Dollar Short has real focus, showing a thoughtful and concentrated effort by both Sene and Blu to make this album about exactly what the title implies: survival and hunger.

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Kim Fowley is famous this week for being the bad guy in the Runaways movie, but he has two compilations on Norton worth purchase for liner notes alone. He plans to be buried in a clear casket with a gold telephone … if he ever lets the world find out he died. This interview by Chris Ziegler.

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The masked dual vocal moans and chants and the furious beats and distortions add up to an aggressively beautiful sound that’s both calming and exciting at the same time. The new EP builds spectacularly from the blueprint of the first, with the addition of Prefuse 73’s production, a year of growing confidence and a bunch of new toys.

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Remember how Sick Boy in Trainspotting quit heroin at the same time as Renton, just to show how easily he could do it? The Cthulhus bully Nathan Williams in the same way; they’re clearly mining Wavves territory, and yet they do it so effortlessly.

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You’d be wise to catch one of Whispering Pines’ live gigs around L.A. or pick up Family Tree at the local record shop. There aren’t too many self-released debut albums of this quality coming out these days.

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Download: John Bellows “Bare To The Bone”

(from Clean Your Clock out now on Moniker)
Newly reissued subterranean psych/etc. from the guy who helped bring the world the awesome Death and JT IV records last year!

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Infinite Body is an exploration of the ecstatic—tone and distortion that bubble and spark like the surface of a star. His album Carve Out the Face of My God is out now on PPM and he warns listeners not to fall into a tropical volcano. This interview by Chris Ziegler.

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The Light Rays’ lo-fi, up-tempo, reverb-saturated pop has echoes of the Cleaners From Venus or the Clean—but those are merely reference points to navigate by, not albatrosses around their necks. The Light Rays pull off the parlor trick of being fairly straightforward yet compellingly original. If only every group from Orange County could be as cool.

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