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Toronto's Metz: The Complete Inversion of the Post-Arcade Fire Canadian Music Glut

We caught up with Toronto punks Metz just after they crossed the border of their Canadian homeland down toward New York where they play Wednesday night at Music Hall of Williamsburg. They had just been pulled over, which they say happens a lot when they border hop. So far they haven't had any major ... More >>

Q&A: Alex Edkins Of METZ On Signing With Sub Pop, Sharing A Practice Space With Fucked Up, And Bowling With Mudhoney's Mark Arm

Sub Pop's raucous misfit cred has been kept afloat by the white-trash, noise-oozing pranksters in Pissed Jeans, the garage surf-rockers Obits, and the grungester royalty Mudhoney. But new young blood is joining the legendary Seattle label, and it emerges from a town where the Maple Leafs are still c ... More >>

ENTER THE VASELINES

Kurt Cobain loved them, 
and so should you

Q&A: Codeine On Playing Slow, Being On Sub Pop In The '90s And Almost Recording With Jack Endino

Even before Sub Pop struck gazillions gold when punk rock broke in 1991 with Nevermind, the Seattle label was abiding by and stamping its merch with its tongue-in-cheek, yet notorious (and now complete) "World Domination" credo. But back in their cash-strapped early days, that domination only extend ... More >>

Q&A: Mogwai's Stuart Braithwaite On How Happy Hardcore Sucks, Not Caring That Instrumental Rock Is Out Of Style, And Covering The Jewish Prayer "My Father, My King"

For the last fifteen years, the sonic-terrorizing Scottish smashheads Mogwai have remained true to their original vision: the cathartic squelching of a loud/soft gargantuan-riff dynamic undeterred by the music fashions and trends dictated by the Bitchfork monarchy. Admittedly an uncool bunch— ... More >>

The Resurrection of feedtime

Pub rock goes avant-garde

Q&A: Pissed Jeans' Matt Korvette On Having Kids, Listening To Techno, And Not Naming His Band "Unrequited Hard-On"

The resurgent noisecore and pigfuck scenes are currently all the rage in the DIY warehouse spaces and shithole lofts littering Brooklyn and beyond. This weekend, the PA skuzzballs Pissed Jeans—who, arguably, initially lit the under-ass fire that galvanized the underground into embracing the so ... More >>

Washed Out

DEATH BECOMES THEM

The Obits rock the Bell House

SWEET DREAMS

Cozy up with Beach House

Say Hello To Golden Triangle, Trashy Music To Get Naked By

Pic by Sebastian Mlynarski​Yes in My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. Brooklyn's Golden Triangle are an art-dance wet-dream-turned-night-terror. They're less a band and more like what John Waters would imagine a band to be--shimmy and grind, ... More >>

URINE FOR A GOOD TIME

Sorry, we couldn't resist

Stream Male Bonding's Awesomely Damaged Noise-Pop LP Nothing Hurts

​The UK trio Male Bonding play little jagged pop songs equally influenced by Black Flag, the Black Keys, and hazier stuff like Ride; dual vocalists Kevin Hendrick and John Arthur Webb manage melodies that wouldn't be out of place on any number of early '90s K Records releases. Either way, most ... More >>

Beach House

Interview: Eugene Mirman on Asperger's Syndrome, Advice from Former Teachers, and the Mirman Weirdos

Comedian Eugene Mirman makes even the most productive person look unproductive. In the last several months, he's released his first self-help book The Will To Whatevs, reprised his role as "Eugene" during the second season of HBO's Flight of the Conchords, organized and hosted the second annual Eu ... More >>

BRIGHT EYES

Seattle scene beacons bury the hatchet

Beach House Sign to Sub Pop

​Dreamy Baltimore-based duo Beach House have signed to Sub Pop, the label announced yesterday: There is no denying true love. Especially bi-coastal love between us and the Baltimore City based Beach House. The super talented duo, Alex Scally and Victoria Legrand, first fused their respective ... More >>

Download No Age's "You're a Target"

​Three weeks ago, Sub Pop began streaming No Age's upcoming Losing Feeling on their site and now, in anticipation of an October 6th release date that's still very far away, the label is offering the EP's most rousing song, "You're a Target," for free download. It's worth pointing out that the ... More >>

Six Finger Satellite

News Roundup: Chris Brown/Rihanna, Oxford Collapse, Sunny Day Real Estate, Coney Island Rockabilly Festival

--Chris Brown reached a plea deal in court yesterday in his felony assault case. Brown will avoid jail time by receiving probation, doing 180 days of community service in his native Virginia, and attending domestic violence counseling classes. Brown is ordered to stay 50 yards away from Rihanna for ... More >>

ENRAGING GRACE

Punk doesn't run on nothing

What Do You Suppose These New Handsome Furs Press Photos Are Meant to Convey?

The Fluid+King Left+The Overcasters

SONIC BOOM

John Reis stomps his way to Santos'

SON OF A SON OF A GUN

Scotland’s Vaselines reunite, remind you of who they were

A Sweet Roller-Skating Jam from Flight of the Conchords

Foals Don't Play Their Best Song, Spread Goodwill Anyway

Tonight: Pissed Jeans at the Knitting Factory

Hugs and Kisses #31: Tad the Grunge Personification, the DVD

Why the Handsome Furs Couldn't Get Into the U.S.

New(ish) Stuff

CMJ Music Marathon Highlights

Old-Fashioned Amenities

Track after track of sincere classicism, internationalist anarchism, and foiled espionage

No Future

Kurt Cobain's Final Denial

Never More

The death of a hometown antihero: Ann Powers reports from Seattle on the suicide of Kurt Cobain

Sustenance Enough?

Indie-rock heavy hitters get confused figuring out why they're doing it, doing it, doing it

Hot Spot

Edges of the Groove

Arguments against education, reclaimed punk rants, electropop with staying power

MLK Fever

Bill O'Reilly, we salute you, now please give us all our frankincense and myrrh back

Don't Call It a Comeback

Music

Prophecy Fulfilled

The Rapture Is Coming

A Very Good Year

2001 Gets Better

Twee Blind Mouse

Ghost Town

Cleanup Time

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Wanna Love It, But I'm Getting Blown Away

Consumer Guide

African Connection