Bizarre and bizarrerer: Tera Melos’s “Weird Circles” video
Tera Melos scores an extended peak into the collective subconscious with the new video for “Weird Circles.”
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Buy QOTSA’s USB…with a postmodernism pitch
Queens of the Stone Age and master pitch-man Ricky Chism want to tell you about a combination USB drive and bottle opener.
Must-see sets at Pitchfork 2013
Need to plan your itinerary for three days of tunes at Chicago’s Union Park? We’ve done it for you, you lazy bastich.
Manic surf rock + monster movies: Daikaiju unleashes “Double Fist Attack”!!!
Daikaiju offers up a dose of manic surf rock, draped in vintage tones and vintage monster movies.
Best Albums: Fever, fear, exorcism, purging, and midnight mass
The Octopus Project: Fever Forms
Unkind: Pelon Juuret
Demon Queen: Exorcise Tape
Cloudeater: Purge
Louise Burns: The Midnight Mass
When Amon Tobin and Kronos Quartet collaborate, stars explode
Crossover chamber group Kronos Quartet will debut a new commissioned work by IDM innovator Amon Tobin for its 40th-anniversary season.
Q&A: Coliseum on melody vs. melancholy, modern music videos, and occult imagery
Coliseum has spent a decade of existence wedged within a punk-rock Venn diagram, falling in the overlap of punk, hardcore, rock and roll, and all sorts of “post” subgenres. Here ringleader Ryan Patterson talks about its punishing new record and much more.
Weird worlds collide in The Octopus Project’s “Sharpteeth”
In the new video from “indie-tronica” outfit The Octopus Project, its members meet their Bizarro selves — some sort of Southwestern feather-faces.
El-P & Killer Mike strike back, Talib Kweli with Pretty Lights, Owen goes electric
Run the Jewels: s/t
Pretty Lights: A Color Map of the Sun
Owen: L’Ami du Peuple
Watch David Lynch’s new NIN video (epileptics, be warned)
Though it’s not an Earth-shattering collaboration, David Lynch’s new Nine Inch Nails video is very…well, Lynchian…with high-contrast stills, flashing red squares, and frenetic, blurred-vision closeups of Trent Reznor’s beloved face.
Watercolor composing: Valgeir Sigurðsson’s “Between Monuments” video
Watercolors and sketches belie the wreckage in this video from Valgeir Sigurðsson’s Architecture of Loss.
Cult icons Goblin to tour USA with Secret Chiefs 3, play Housecore Horror
Horror-score fans, your long wait is finally coming to an end. For the first time ever, Italian prog icons Goblin (Suspiria, Dawn of the Dead) are touring North America this October. Even better? They’re joined by the genre-defying Secret Chiefs 3.