Weatherbox

MP3 Premiere: Everybody hates indie-rock outfit Weatherbox in “Big News”

Weatherbox/Sainthood RepsWeatherbox: Sainthood Reps / Weatherbox split 7″ (Top Shelf, 5/7/13)

“Big News”

Weatherbox: “Big News”

California’s Weatherbox has been through the ringer. Member turnover was at one point so dangerously high that you would be forgiven for thinking the band was done. However, since 2011’s Follow the Rattle of the Afghan Guitar, the band has kept a steady lineup, producing indie rock with a touch of rawness about it.

Meshuggah’s “I Am Colossus” video is a twitchy, soul-removing nightmare

Meshuggah: KolossMeshuggah: Koloss (Nuclear Blast, 3/27/12)

It’s been a little over a year since the blast of atomic rage that is Meshuggah’s Koloss, and things haven’t slowed down for the band. In addition to touring at home and overseas, the band has dropped a video for “I Am Colossus,” and it’s a reality-twisting piece of stop-motion animation that simultaneously evokes Tim Burton and Tool‘s entire music-video catalog.

Efterklang

A murderous MacGuffin in Efterklang’s “The Ghost” video

Efterklang: PiramidaEfterklang: Piramida (4AD, 9/25/12)

Having recorded Piramida in a ghost town, its perhaps unsurprising that one of the tracks on Efterklang‘s fourth album was entitled “The Ghost.” A droning composition with bells, brass, and an echoing percussive background, it’s reminiscent of some of the more ambient work of groups like Underworld and Radiohead, which is to say that it’s unique and beautiful.