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Buzzov-en is back on tour after 12 years

Stoner-core veterans Buzzov-en have reunited and will hit the road after a 12-year drought to tour the USA this fall.

For a handful of East Coast and Midwest dates, founding member Kirk Fisher has gathered the band’s original lineup, including bassist “Dixie” Dave Collins (also of Weedeater) and drummer Ramzi.

After the release of the band’s compilation album, Violence from the Vault (Relapse), this year, Buzzov-en is working on a new album called Revelation: Sick Again that will be out in 2011 on Hydra Head Records.

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Help fund Kid Koala’s new project at MASS MoCA

Cut-up turntablist and musician Kid Koala is known for the detailed comic books that he creates for his albums, offering a unique visual accompaniment to his musical aesthetic.

Now he is planning a residency at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) for December of 2010 where he and a five-member team will create a live performance based on his long-awaited graphic novel and soundtrack, Space Cadet.

Indie pop and hip hop collide on Common Grackle’s The Great Depression

Common Grackle‘s release of their new album is only days away!

Kurt Rosenwinkel joins Portugal’s Orquestra Jazz de Matosinhos for Our Secret World

Jazz guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel, known for his distinct multi-effect-pedal sound and collaborations with Q-Tip of A Tribe Called Quest, is set to release a new album with the Orquestra Jazz de Matosinhos. The Portugal-based big band contacted Rosenwinkel about a possible collaboration in 2007. Following a number of successful shows in Portugal, the idea to record an album was born.

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Poster Art: Ryan Duggan’s punchy minimalism

Screen-printing poster artist Ryan Duggan grew up in Northern Illinois in a small town that Tom Waits wrote a song about. “There I spent all my time drawing and forming shitty bands with my friends,” he says. For reasons still unbeknownst to him, Duggan then relocated to Chicago to study advertising. Maps & Atlases was formed by friends shortly after, and Duggan has been screen-printing since.

“Many posters these days are meaningless collages made in Photoshop and distressed to look ‘rock and roll,’” he says. “It comes off looking very fake to me. I feel that music is a dirty, stupid ordeal and that this should come across in the imagery — it’s how you know everyone’s still having fun.”