1929
For the past two years 1929 have been leveling blowboxes all over Philadelphia without so much as a "Hello, It's Me" from Philly's own blowbox king, Todd Rundgren. You'd think with that kind of liberation going on the least Todd could do is invite 'em over to try on a pair of Roger Powell's
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Alan Licht
Mr. Ubiquitous lends his formidable name and image to a Siltbreeze project. Experimental drones and noises with nods to Phill Niblock and noted pop subversive James iDumpi McNew. A big, clanging, obstreperous, kosher meatloaf of an
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Alastair Galbraith
New Zealand’s Alastair Galbraith, while originally coming from the Flying Nun stable of bands, has for many years now been better known for his experimental works, ranging from early folk-derived songs to sound installations and releases with fellow New Zealander Bruce Russell (of Dead C). While
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Ashtabula
Axemen
Blues Control
A few years back, former Quiet Sun / Roxy Music / 801 behind-the-scenes mastermind Gill Manzanera-- no relation to guitarist Phil Manzanera (whose real name is Philip Targett-Adams)--offered up a beguiling reminiscence of those heady days to the Swiss fanzine Sombre Reptiles:
"What we were ....
Brother J.T.
Charalambides
Eat Skull
Eat Skull's Sick to Death received worldwide accolades for its frantic pacing, unimpeachable lyric quality, and nugget after nugget of pop hooks buried under a gob of lo-fi muzz. On this follow-up, fans and critics will find a cleaner, more inimitable Eat Skull at work. Frontman Rob Enbom has
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Fabulous Diamonds
Challenging song arrangements with menacing energy, Fabulous Diamonds are firm advocators of music as a free, abstract art form with self-assurance and experimental prowess. Odd, enigmatic, and wholly idiosyncratic, the Melbourne duo’s acute sound is set out to deface not just the conventions of
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Gas
Comprised of various members from Christchurch's obscure fringe (MCGOOHANS, SHALLOWS and SCORCHED EARTH POLICY), GAS harkens forth with an effusive hybrid of Nuggets-styled garage psych fused into the miasmic, post industrial rust clamor of Hearthan-era Pere Ubu. These recording date from '96 to
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Guided By Voices
Hank IV
Harry Pussy
Mike Rep And The Quotas
Stupor Hiatus culls the complete recorded works of the original Mike Rep and the Quotas, dating back to 1974 and moving forward into the early 1990s. Essentially a reworking of the Stupor Hiatus Vol. 2 LP released by Siltbreeze in 1992 (minus the questionable original artwork and mysterious
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Mount Carmel
The trio of Matthew Reed, Patrick Reed and Kevin Shubak--heretofore known as Mount Carmel--hails from Columbus, Ohio, but if you're expecting lo-fi, greaser's palace pop a la Psychedelic Horseshit or Times New Viking, think again. Mount Carmel is a straight-up blues rock power trio. And by
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Naked on the Vague
For this second full-length effort, Naked on the Vague eschew their tantalizingly sparse duo attack for a quartet line-up, and the results are as sensational as they are sinister. While the rickety, no-wave splat found on previous efforts had its appeal, the heft of a "proper" rhythm section has
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Pin Group
Pink Reason
Psychedelic Horseshit
Puffy Areolas
For the past few years, Puffy Areolas have been fritzing synapses and scorching the landscape with their corroded psych / hardcore scree. Enlightened by the most unhinged charters of Acid Archives and Killed by Death alumnus, the Puffies' sound might best be described as embodying the Stooges' Raw
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Ratas Del Vaticano
Ratas Del Vaticano ("Rats of the Vatican") are a quartet hailing from Monterrey, Mexico, who assail ears with a most excellent assemblage of punk spew that can best be pitched as "KBD-like." Some of the slicker dicks out there will be familiar with Mocosos Pateticos ("Pathetic Kids")
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Renderers
Resineators
Sapat
Spawned from the formidable Louisville, KY collective known as Black Velvet Fuckere (Valley Of The Ashes, Phantom Family Halo, Kark, etc.), Sapat resides as the centrifugal force in this Midwestern psychedelic madrigal set in the psychosexual backwaters of the mighty Ohio River. For the entirety of
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Sic Alps
U.S. EZ is the fourth long-player in the Sic Alps canon (excluding the recent singles comp CD, A Long Way Around to a Shortcut), and their first for the Siltbreeze label. Fans of last year's amazing Description of the Harbor LP will not be disappointed, especially if they want to hear Side A's
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The Dead C
A reissue of the landmark, '92 double album from these oft bowed-before and constantly imitated New Zealand guiterrorizers on CD. No matter which deranged psychological profile you fit, The Pontiff, The Painter and The Clutz will convince you to "just put down the gun, Charlie," long before the
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The Mantles
With two acclaimed seven-inches under their belt, The Mantles answer the call for more with a stunning debut LP sure to please all who cross its path. The Mantles have been dead-on in distilling a contemporary pop / psych concoction that mixes equal parts early Chills with early Dream
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The Shadow Ring
The Yips
Times New Viking
Tropa Macaca
Sensacao Do Principio is the third release proper from Tropa Macaca and their first with an American label. Their previous efforts on Ruby Red and Qbico were magnificent (though hard to find) efforts of blotted, aural sci-fi codifications somewhere between Anar Band and Blues Control.
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Tyvek
Following a gaggle of seven-inches for goose-y labels such as X!, What's Your Rupture?, S-S, and M'Lady's Records, Tyvek delivers a long-player that couldn't make Siltbreeze happier were the colonel slathered in foie gras and seared to a crisp.
A few tracks on this effort are familiar to ....
U.S. Girls
If the alluring moniker used by Megan Uremovich conjures images of volleyball teams or cheerleading squads, forget it. Not that there's any doubt that Uremovich--sorry, U.S. Girls--couldn't rise and conquer either challenge.
Like fellow DIY ingenues Sally Strobelight and Inca Ore, U.S. ....
The second full-length release by U.S. Girls is an even more fully realized excursion into a hazy alternate universe where pop vocals and muzzy scree fuse in harmony.
Go Grey conjures up ambient aerosols while luminous kaleidoscopes of sound sizzle, peak, and explode. Megan Remy is a ....
Various Artists
Venom P. Stinger
Vertical Slit
