Jordan N. Mamone
Loincloth's Final Album is Instrumental, Evocative, and Kind of Ridiculous
The Celtic Frost-worshipping, GWAR-affiliated, pseudo-Satanic supergroup is dead, but you can listen to their final album right here.
Life on Mars: The Surviving Members of the Earliest No Wave Band Talk Muggings, Warhol, and 1977
Mark Cunningham and Connie Burg look back the pivotal 'No New York' era of experimental rock.
Stains on the Sidewalk: We Downed Beers in Chinatown with Former Pavement Bassist Mark Ibold
"It was never a band that really practiced much."
Poetic Justice: Enablers Make Spoken-Word Rock Music That Actually Doesn't Suck
The band recently released 'The Rightful Pivot,' an improvisational arsenal of rolls, taps, and flutters that will make you rethink your stereotypes.
The Birth of Swans: Three Veteran Members Talk Reinventing the Blues and Their Imposing Debut Album 'Filth'
"We used to play at CBGB's and I'd walk down to the bathroom barefoot. I remember getting off the stage and licking the fucking floor and someone's feet."
Watch Bowl Ethereal's "The Last Minute," Featuring Art-Metal Badass Pen Rollings
We talked to "math rock" OG Pen Rollings and his new partner Brian Metz about their new project Bowl Ethereal, drinking Four Loko for promo pics, and how defining yourself by your sexuality is dumb.
Contemplating the Heavens with VHK's Atilla Grandpierre
Decked out in robes and war paint, Atilla howls with profound fury and joy while whipping himself into a shamanistic frenzy. Comparatively speaking, his shamanic punk band VHK makes Gogol Bordello seem about as intense as a middle-school production of...
Live Skull, Dead Body
Seeing as all of their songs on Spotify have a little "less than 1000 plays" symbol next to them, chances are you haven’t listened to much Live Skull. They were the best of the New York no-wave psychos, and they've aged better than Hungarian dessert...
Bringing in the String Section with Mars' Mark Cunningham
Mars never made a bad album. In fact, during its fleeting, 36-month lifespan, the NYC no wave combo never made any kind of album.
Bringing in the String Section with Michael Gira
Michael Gira is not known for making tepid, lightweight albums. Swans exudes a superhuman intensity. Even the band's recent reunion has transcended expectations.