Weasel Walter

Composer David Earl Buddin Can Totally Relate to Lindsay Lohan

In 2012, the Voice doled out honors to David Earl Buddin, tabbing him New York's Best Composer for very good reason: he's a beer-swillin', chain-smokin', gloriously prolific pioneer of electronic music and ringleader of the honky tonkin' trio of high rolling drunkards, American Liberty League. As ... More >>

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Week, 4/8/13

Here are the 10 best shows around the city this week, in no particular order.

Vinnie Golia

Colin Marston's Black Math

The multi-instrumentalist has no time to spare

The Oral History of Rat At Rat R: The NYC-via-Philly Noise-Rock Heroes Celebrate the Re-issue of Their 1985 Debut, Amer$ide

"In my way of thinking, first there is Sonic Youth then comes Rat At Rat R then after that comes Swans -- that order was kind of their appearance in the New York scene. But Rat At Rat R just stumbled -- there was just a lot of bad luck. They'd get going and something would happen." Ron Anderson, pun ... More >>

Q&A: XADDAX On Married Couple Band Life And Bushwick's Zombie People

Gloriously wretched, hoarse-throated bloody rasp bawls and fractured clusterfucked guitar squalor careen head on with drums and synth-triggering pedal demolition in XADDAX, a Bushwickian noise-rock monster whose members—ax grinder Nick Sakes and traps basher Chrissy Rossettie—happen to b ... More >>

ugEXPLODE Musicians Mary Halvorson, Jessica Pavone, Ava Mendoza, Sandy Ewen And Damon Smith On Shredding, New York Vs. The Bay Area, And Houston's Improv and Drinking Scene

This week, the Voice rounded up Weasel Walter's nationwide community of avant-gardist outsiders who both record for his boldly avant-garde label ugEXPLODE and collaborate with the iconoclast-about-town. The names are staggering and represent the most intrepid of musicians working in the experimental ... More >>

Weasel (Walter) Nation

On the daringly avant label ugEXPLODE

This Week In The Voice: Kenny Chesney Throws A Party, ugEXPLODE's Avant-Gardism

In this week's Village Voice, out now: I head to MetLife Stadium for the Brothers of the Sun Tour, starring Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw; and Brad Cohan looks at the boundary-smashing label ugEXPLODE, the brainchild of master basher Weasel Walter.

Q&A: Admiral Grey And Ceci Moss Of Cellular Chaos On Getting Into People's Faces, Rolling Around On The Floor And Playing With Drummer Marc Edwards

This week, the Voice sat down with some of the many iconoclastic musicians from across the country that extreme musician Weasel Walter has corralled across the nation under his visionary label

Vinny Golia, Max Johnson, and Weasel Walter

Q&A: Ches Smith Of Congs For Brums And These Arches On Playing With Marc Ribot And Drumming In All-Night Vodou Ceremonies

Brooklyn-via-Cali drums heavyweight Ches Smith is a master of percussion, an omnipresent figurehead about town who holds the beats down for the likes of avant-jazz heroes like Marc Ribot, Darius Jones, Trevor Dunn and Mary Halvorson and can also be found pulling all-nighters drumming in Haitian vodo ... More >>

Q&A: Sam Hilmer Of Diamond Terrifier And Zs On Booking PRACTICE! Gigs At Zebulon, "Zs" As A Genre, And Not Being Jazz

Sam Hilmer is one of the purveyors of daring, free-minded, sound-manipulating experimentalist local outfit Zs, and it's fitting that the seriously bearded saxophonist would refute the generic "post-minimalist, neo-no wave, industrial noise" descriptor tossed at the band he shares with guitarist extr ... More >>

Q&A: Darius Jones On The Man-ish Boy Epic, Being Called "Punk-Jazz," And AUM Fidelity's 15th Anniversary

If ever there was a dude who exudes the air of spiritual illumination while being a total badass, saxophonist figurehead Darius Jones is it. In conversation, the burly alto overlord fuses his devout Southern rearing with New York City crud and attitude, as well as impassioned and bleeding respect fo ... More >>

Q&A: Dysrhythmia's Kevin Hufnagel And Colin Marston On NYC's Metal Revival, Leaving Relapse Records And Being In A Shit-Ton of Bands

When Herculean experi-metal prog trio Dysrhythmia traded in their Killadelphia digs for New York City's clusterfuck of a music scene in the mid-naughts, metal and its myriad subgenres barely registered as a blip on this town's radar. Equipped with a sonic blueprint of meticulously constructed all- ... More >>

Q&A: Scarcity Of Tanks' Matthew Wascovich On Not Being A Poet, Cleveland Punk, SST Records, And Releasing Two New Albums On The Same Day

Bottomless songwriting pit machinist Bob Pollard has some friendly in-state competition from fellow Ohio native and Scarcity Of Tanks guru Matthew Wascovich. The Clevo skater/sporto/wordsmith/punk dude—the lone constant in SOT's revolving universe of all-star avant-rock beasts—is touting ... More >>

Weasel Walter Trio

The Story Behind 1970s-era NYC Proto Punks Jack Ruby

Also: More with proto-punks Jack Ruby and no wave goddess Lydia Lunch.

Q&A: Proto-Punks Jack Ruby And No Wave Goddess Lydia Lunch On Finding The Lost Tapes And Remembering Boris Policeband And The Contortions' George Scott

This week in the Voice I spoke to the surviving members of the New York proto-punk outfit Jack Ruby—as well as Teenage Jesus and the Jerks/8-Eyed Spy no wave icon Lydia Lunch—and we sifted through the drug and alcohol haze of 1970s and '80s New York City to find a few killer memories. I ... More >>

Q&A: Orthrelm And Krallice's Mick Barr On Free Improv & Jazz, Working With "Klassikill" Music Sage Nondor Nevai, And Not Being In Hella

​For starters, Mick Barr is not in Hella. Never was. Sure, the diminutive, scraggly-haired, baseball-capped experi-metal guitarist overlord has collabbed with the San Franisco spazz-proggers' drummer, Zach Hill, on a slew of intense and brain-scorching shredders. But those were just one-offs. ... More >>

Download: Weasel Walter's Playful, Punchy Improvised Duet With Mary Halvorson, "Let's Get 'Em"

Andy Newcombe/Flickr​Ever since Weasel Walter relocated to Brooklyn a few years back, no wave's ambidextrous enfant terrible has been almost obnoxiously busy. His countless performances at Death By Audio, Zebulon and Issue Project Room have single-handedly made our loft-punk and freak-jazz sho ... More >>

Download White Suns' Bloody-Knuckled Aggro Anthem "Skin Deep"

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. ​After years of destroying loft spaces and leaking rabies-frothed cassette tapes, Brooklyn noize-fuck headache-pounders (and recent Village Voice feature stars) White Suns have finally harnessed thei ... More >>

Q&A: "Klassikill" Music Maestro Nondor Nevai On Crowd Intimidation, His Vast Vocabulary, And Why He'll Never Play Jazz Again

"The degree to which I want violence in my art is inversely proportional to how much I want it in my life." Nondor Nevai (left) and Weasel Walter, just hangin' out​Who is Nondor Nevai? For starters, the dude owns both the best name in the extreme-music vortex and a deranged panache that's eit ... More >>

The Noisecore Warmth of White Suns

Weasel Walter's protégés are out to bury chillwave

FREE-FALLIN’ JAZZ

This trio moves

Tonight! Little Dragon, Weasel Walter, And Seabears

​Some combinations are undeniably gut-wrenching (like pineapple-ring sandwiches on white bread), but Swedish trio Little Dragon's blend of r&b, atmospheric synths, and ice-cold vocals (courtesy of Yukimi Nagano, hanging out with her bandmates to your left) will produce something irresistible ... More >>

"It Has To Do With Eating Fucking DIRT, Not Graduating From A Liberal Arts College": Weasel Walter Holds Forth On No Wave, Grudgingly Lets You Listen To No New York

Pic by Nondor Nevai​Brash, beloved experimental/jazz/noise/etc. drummer Weasel Walter, who moved to Brooklyn not too long ago to "fuck shit up," has a fine mini-essay on discovering No Wave in the mid-'80s, and the herculean, charmingly antiquated methods (libraries! mail-order! record stores! ... More >>

Hex Breaker Quintet+Mark Morgan

This Week's Voice: Spoon's Transference, Bull Riding at MSG, Weasel Walter, the 2009 New Yorker Cartoonist Final Standings, and More

Spoon, doing less with less. Photo by Autumn De Wilde​In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla on Spoon's defiantly skeletal Transference, Phil Freeman goes bull riding at MSG's arena rock rodeo, and Brad Cohan meets the new kid in town (and old head extremist drummer) Weasel Walter. In Boo ... More >>

The Weasel Walter Welcome Wagon

An extremist drummer moves to town to fuck shit up and kick your genitalia off