Breathe - in through your nose, out through your mouth. Feel the energy passing through your body, from your head, down through your legs to the earth. Turn your heart to the sky - and realize that a new album from The Silence is nigh!

Nine Suns, One Morning is the third album from The Silence since their formation in Tokyo in July of 2014. Fronting the sound of The Silence is Masaki Batoh (formerly of the legendary Japanese band Ghost), who... (read more)

Los Angeles! New York! Chicago! Austin! Columbus! What do they all have in common? Well aside from being internationally recognized as the USA's cultural glue, they're the only cities the newly reformed, permanent Veterans of Disorder we familiarly call Royal Trux have chosen to play since buying back into themselves and deciding what the world needs now is a little more Sunshine and Grease! Neil and Jennifer are STILL the true blue frequency - the baddest asses grooving in and out of any alleyway, the... (read more)

Eiko Ishibashi has made noise both soft and harsh in the Japanese music scene for quite a while - but in the last couple years, her attention has turned to jazzed-up pop songs of an airy, progressive nature - the most desireable kind imaginable! Don't know what we mean? Hm, think Annette Peacock, perhaps? If that doesn't strike a chord, you may wanna rebuild your pop foundation, Jack! Anyway, as we were saying, Eiko has released two of the most masterful and innovative pop albums... (read more)

ROCKARRHEA!

Summer breaks, and back to the world. Frankly, we can't wait to get out of the so-called blockbuster season! We're quite fond of dropping a life-changer in the dead of July (like, oh, say, White Fence's For the Recently Found Innocent back in July 2014, OM's Advaitic Songs in July 2012, Andy Kaufman's Andy and His Grandmother in July '13 and the Red Hash reissue from Gary Higgins way on back in July '05 - or what about Ty... (read more)