Pine Hill Haints attract people that have gone to the dark side and found it uplifting. Alabama’s self-proclaimed punk band makes music that embraces doom and the great lonesomeness of life in order to find everlasting joy. This basically makes Pine Hill Saints a good band for the end of the world. What luck—they’re playing Los Angeles on Judgment Day! Daiana Feuer speaks to singer Jamie Barrier.

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Wolvserpent is a Boise-based duo of drone-adjacent metal that write the soundtrack to freezing to death. Half-tucked within the usually niche world of doom, the two create lurching cinematic soundscapes of lawless splendor. They play this Thursday with Wino and more. This interview by Matt Dupree.

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Should you be afraid? Should you cover yourself in mayonnaise and witness the first live performance of the Avant-Garde Volkpenis since 2006? Do you like Pizza!? That’s a hint. Here’s a 15 minute Volkpenis experience. MP3: the Avant-Garde Volkpenis “VolkpenisVolkpenis” [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Celebrate Cinco De Mayo with the Avant-Garde Volkpenis, [...]

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First of all, good looking video. That churning gray cloud hovering in the desert is one the most awesome things ever. Must be director Young Replicant’s doing. I could have stared at that cloud forever. Then a guy appears running from a horseman and you jump with him straight into the floating gray nothing and [...]

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Gone are the lightning wails of 2003. The new Ima Robot is more patient, more complex, and more exploratory than ever, and that’s an impressive accomplishment. They probably won’t sell any Ford Fiestas with this album. But, as the album asserts, this ain’t necessarily that bad of a bad thing.

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The first full-length release by Infantree, Would Work, displays the cohesion of six-days-a-week practice sessions and the kind of collaborative songwriting that comes from lack of ego and love of making music. The folk/barbershop/classic rock circus that is Infantree has their focus on the future, offering a re-release of the album in April which will include videos featuring stop-motion animation and surreal uses of slabs of meat.

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The Driftwood Singers were roped into their first Playdate. Here is the music featured in Playdate Good Luck Future: Amanda Jo Williams — Up The Mountain Going A new unreleased recording featuring her Los Angeles band. AJW has a residency at the Echo this month and a solo album coming out April 26, Mary’s Big [...]

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Habitat’s most recent album is a derailed ghost train. It is a deformed Eno stripped to just a beat-box. It’s predominantly dark, moaning with echoes; the vocals are a grotesque dissonant timbre. “Put Your Baby on the Train” is Evol-like paranoia. I think of Dali’s Car or Swans, but Rich Eckersley and Kelly O’Hare, the duo who perform as Habitat, are in their own category.

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On the cover of the Humms’ “Don’t Think About Death” 45, singer Zeke Sayer grins like a giant pale-faced mestophalian spider, death in a black hoodie, with a cigarette for a scythe. Don’t think—just listen as you follow him to a monster mash in the deep south where some ghoul has spiked the punch with mescaline.

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There’s so much space to get into this song. It may be called “Losing My Patience” but there’s no rush about it. Alexis Taylor from Hot Chip lended his vocals to Irish producer Shit Robot (aka Marcus Lambkin), and also did a remix which appears on the “Losing My Patience” single bundle coming out on [...]

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