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Exploding in Sound has just released a great, and perhaps more importantly, free compilation. Featuring a number of FPM favorites (Buildings, METZ, Mrs. Magician, The Men*), it’s available on Bandcamp right now for the low, low price of nothing. Thee Oh Sees, Corin Tucker Band, and Gaytheist also make an appearance. If you missed out [...]
There’s something cringe-worthy about the title of the new Godspeed You! Black Emperor that I’ve yet to put my finger on. Luckily, the album is a solid return to form (or insert preferred music journalism trope, critic shorthand) for the Canadian group. Track opener “Mladic” is phenomenal and, unexpectedly enough, faintly reminiscent of Swans’ opener [...]
And just like that, another Chelsea Wolfe song finds its way online, this time in the form of a live performance at the Echoplex in Los Angeles. “Feral Love” will be featured on her upcoming album (not the acoustic one) early next year and it sounds like a lot of the electronics that were so [...]
Gossip columnist DJ TrustFun, 32, of the greater Los Angeles area, died July 7, 2010 from complications surrounding a fevered ego, half-assed website updates, a DJ “career,” and chronic mooching. TrustFun was preceded in death by a record label (lost to SIDS) and The Icarus Line (lost to Mononucleosis contracted from a toilet seat frequented [...]
If there’s one word that describes Aaron Turner’s musical output, it’d have to be “indulgent.” There’s no way to meet him on his projects in any way other than completely on his terms and those terms frequently dictate that you endure one drawn out riff or sample-laden noise track after another. ISIS went this direction [...]
Hey guys. Ty Segall of the Ty Segall Band just released a song called “Wave Goodbye.” It’s a blown out, throwback, lo-fi rocker. It really gets down to the nitty-gritty of old garage rock. It has that rough vibe to it. And it’s kind of gloomy. Not like those over-produced, happy we’re doing drugs Black [...]
Keith Morris is an old dude, and for the longest time, has looked and sounded like one. He’s been one dread shy of venturing into retiree territory for a few years. And then OFF! comes along and suddenly, he sounds like he’s having fun again. Gives a shit. That sort of thing. The band just [...]
Mogwai, who recently announced that they are doing the soundtrack for Hudson River Project, have just released the song “Earth Division” for streaming from the upcoming Occupy This Album which also features Anti Flag, Ladytron, and Third Eye Blind. Because they’re still around, apparently. While Mogwai is more or less the AC/DC of slow build [...]
There’s no group of people more insufferable, or unaware of it for that fucking matter, than music critics or journalists. I’m going to go ahead and say, for the record, that no one that’s ever submitted a piece here at good ol’ FPM is any different. And I’ll get to those assholes soon enough (sorry [...]
I don’t give a shit what you hype-happy kids say, The Men are the next And You Will Know Us… Another band Pitchfork squirted into a tissue to be tossed into the trash a year later. Let’s see ‘em get invited to the Fest next year. KEXP just threw a live set up on YouTube [...]
