The Dead C, 'Secret Earth' (Ba Da Bing!)
Groundbreaking noise trio still stuck in antifidelity rut.
By Andy Beta 11.06.08 10:43 AM
This New Zealand trio deconstructed both their native island's lo-fi pop and the notion of a classic-rock power trio more than 20 years ago, influencing both Sonic Youth and Wolf Eyes along the way. But while they were one of the first bands to deploy a laptop for noisemaking, they've yet to use such technology to make a more appealing recording.
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Masters of Puppets: The Rock-afire Explosion Story
How the Rock-afire Explosion, a faded kiddie-restaurant's band of animatronic animals, blew up on YouTube.
By Andy Beta 10.21.08 4:49 PM
Chris Thrash was just seven when his parents took him to Showbiz Pizza Place in Columbus, Georgia, in 1982. Amid the blaring video games, ball pits, and steaming-hot pepperoni pies, he found himself plopped down in front of the restaurant's stage as the houselights went down.
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Various Artists, 'Nobody Knows Anything: DFA Presents Supersoul Recordings' (DFA/Supersoul)
More proof (like we needed it) that Germans are discomaniacal.
By Andy Beta 10.14.08 7:38 PM
In those rare, recent moments when he wasn't digging up dusty "special disco versions" to DJ, LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy somehow discovered a Berlin dance label that hadn't stirred up blogosphere buzz.
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Gang Gang Dance, 'St. Dymphna' (The Social Registry)
Clamorous tribal explorers go mental on the indie-rock margins.
By Andy Beta 10.14.08 3:22 PM
Naming their second album for the patron saint of unstable outsiders and epileptics, Gang Gang Dance claim their fidgety place on the furthest realms of New York City rock, blasting through art galleries and infusing their spasmodic racket with relentless dance grooves.
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High Places, 'High Places' (Thrill Jockey)
Coy Brooklyn art-pop couple tinker with disorienting sound designs.
By Andy Beta 10.13.08 12:28 AM
On their debut full-length, the duo of Rob Barber and Mary Pearson handcraft their music out of the tiniest of elements.
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Morgan Geist, 'Double Night Time' (Environ)
New York's professor of disco studies holds a sober seminar.
By Andy Beta 10.13.08 12:20 AM
Morgan Geist has been so busy shepherding the disco resurgence, releasing albums as Metro Area (with Darshan Jesrani), digging up dance curios (for his Unclassics mix), and running his Environ label that a decade has passed between solo albums.
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