As the torch-bearing, primo group of Chicago's card-carrying funky weirdos, Dead Rider's work comes off as slight-of-hand and slanted at all angles, yet before you know it they've chucked back into a glitchy groove on a hairpin turn. The trio of Todd Rittman, White Christmas and Matt Espy have perfected their own brand of experimental rock, but without all the signifiers and clichés you'd come to expect from such a term: sultry grooves and sticky hard rock guitars melt into an audio-verite of... (read more)

Snares Like A Haircut is out today, buzzing bloody loud from the No Age core and into your inner ear! On No Age's fifth full length since 2008, Dean and Randy's respective drums, singing and guitar bring twisted chaos and angst-ridden anthems at full blast for a solid LP's worth of punk for all -or rather, No- Ages! The album release is only the beginning - more and more shows are being added around the world at a blistering clip, and you need... (read more)

2000 'N' 18

New Year! New vibe? No way! NOT. Noxious. Nefarious! Negligent! National disgrace! Nsane! NUTS. Never before? Never again!. Neutrality? Neigh! Nuckle down - negotiate, not negate. Ntertain? Naturally.....N what else? Nothing. Nausea. Naked. Numb. Next Year, then? No - THIS one.

DISC(CON)CUSSIONS

Sweet Royal Trux, what's up with this point in historical time that we find ourselves yoked with? Such infamy! Such calumny! Not to mention the many folks everywhere just acting... (read more)

Step back in time and land smack dab in the middle of Music Row with Nashville's living legend and ORIGINAL outlaw country badass, Chris Gantry! At The Hideout next month, for his first performance in Chicago ever, the troubadour will sling tunes from the newly unearthed, early-70s lysergic classic, At The House of Cash and more! Gantry has been writing and recording songs for 40 years, cutting his teeth with solo albums in the late 1960s and 1970s featuring tunes that would be made... (read more)

Last fall's nuanced and glorious Sapropelic Pycnic was one of 2017's greatest recorded statements! Coming from Ka Baird, she of Spires That In The Sunset Rise, it was expected to be OUT, for sure - but we didn't realize just how deeply it would draw from the primordial ooze and raise high a sacrifice to the immemorial concept of the sacred. And that's just how it sounds on LP! Live, Ka Baird is simply mesmerizing - a whirlwind of voice, electronics, flute and loops... (read more)

Seeing Circuit des Yeux perform is believing! While Reaching For Indigo is as formidable an LP as you'll hear anytime soon, seeing the songs played live directs laser beams straight to your brain's vibrating core. With a backing band full of talented musicians (Cooper Crain, Tyler Damon and Andrew Scott Young) along for the ride, Haley Fohr's CdY are currently on the road showcasing the album in a light more transcendent than even repeated listenings on your turntable can offer. The hot tip we're... (read more)

Poke it with a Stick -- the only record by Louisville legends Your Food -- is a sui generis gem of the American underground, now faithfully reissued for the first time by Drag City. Recorded in 1983 by four scarecrows from Kentucky subsisting largely on cheap beer and baked beans, the album is a burbling burgoo of hypnotic rhythm, uncoiling tension, and sharp invective -- a proud bastard of post-punk royalty.

In the fall of 1981, the residents of 1069, Louisville's original punk... (read more)

With Plum hanging like a sun above the western horizon, Wand finally embark on the official Plum European tour next week, heading east and east and east before they finally arrive without not travelling in merry old Brighton, the big black Smoke of London, the streets of Bristol and ever so much more beyond! Now is the time for all the top-hatted Wandheads (though we prefer Wanderers) of all colors and in all corners to rally (or at the very least, just congregate) in the... (read more)

Ty Segall is Freedom's Goblin! In his hands, music is free to assume shapes of rock and funk and folk and roll, always changing, growing and challenging, while always catching us in our most fevered brain-parts! NPR Music's First Listen is Freedom's Goblin! It delivers the music free to us for listening without constraint and/or commitment. And you too are Freedom's Goblin: free to listen (or not) to whatever you want, free to follow your mind to the brink of whatever mortal... (read more)

Aside from the impending nuclear holocaust and all, recent technological advances have the ability to satisfy your deepest, darkest couch potato tendencies - specifically, your desire for MORE from Bill MacKay and Ryley Walker! Well the future is here today, as we present you with the opportunity to fully immerse yourself in a session with Bill and Ryley as they take you through the intricacies of jamming and rehearsing - the type of thing that led to their collaboration and latest album, SpiderBeetleBee -... (read more)