Melvins: The Bride Screamed Murder (Ipecac, 6/1/10) Melvins: "The Water Glass" [audio:https://alarm-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/melvins_thewaterglass.mp3|titles=Melvins: "The Water Glass"] Last year, sludge-rock band the Melvins…
Ancestors: Invisible White EP (Tee Pee, 6/28/11) Ancestors: "Dust" [audio:https://alarm-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/02-Dust.mp3|titles=Ancestors: "Dust"] With its latest record, a three-track EP entitled Invisible White,…
Rabbits: Lower Forms (Relapse, 2/15/11) Rabbits: "Duck The Pigs" [audio:https://alarm-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Rabbits_Duck_The_Pigs.mp3|titles=Rabbits: "Duck The Pigs"] Portland, Oregon-based sludge-rock trio Rabbits isn't big…
Sharon Van Etten: Epic (Ba Da Bing, 9/21/10) Sharon Van Etten: "Don't Do It" [audio:https://alarm-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Sharon_Van_Etten_Dont_Do_It.mp3|titles=Sharon Van Etten: "Don't Do It"]…
The Bad Plus: Never Stop (E1, 9/14/10) The Bad Plus: "My Friend Metatron" [audio:https://alarm-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/The_Bad_Plus_My_Friend_Metatron.mp3|titles=The Bad Plus: "My Friend Metatron"] Jazz…
Thursday: No Devolución (Epitaph, 4/12/11) Thursday: "Magnets Caught in a Metal Heart" [audio:https://alarm-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/07-Magnets-Caught-In-A-Metal-Heart.mp3|titles=Thursday: "Magnets Caught in a Metal Heart"] New…
Fang Island: s/t (Sargent House, 2/23/10) Fang Island: "Sideswiper" [audio:https://alarm-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Fang_Island_Sideswiper.mp3|titles=Fang Island: "Sideswiper"] Fang Island, with its three-guitar attack and lightning-fast…
Implodes: Black Earth (Kranky, 4/20/11) Implodes: "Marker" [audio:https://alarm-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/02-Marker.mp3|titles=Implodes: "Marker"] According to Chicago-based drone-rock band Implodes, its new album, Black Earth,…
The One AM Radio: Heaven Is Attached By A Slender Thread (Dangerbird, 4/12/11) The One AM Radio: "Sunlight" [audio:https://alarm-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/The-One-AM-Radio-Sunlight.mp3|titles=The One…
Fredrik: Flora (The Kora, 4/12/11) Fredrik: "Rites of Spring" [audio:https://alarm-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/rites-of-spring.mp3|titles=Fredrik: "Rites of Spring"] Fredrik is an experimental folk-pop band from…
Antonionian: Antonionian (Anticon, 3/15/11) Antonionian: "Into the Night" [audio:https://alarm-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/06-Into-The-Night.mp3|titles=Antonionian: "Into The Night"] Antonionian, a.k.a. Anticon affiliate and multi-instrumentalist Jordan Dalyrmple,…
Disappears: Guider (Kranky, 1/17/11) Disappears: "Halo" [audio:https://alarm-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Halo.mp3|titles=Disappears: "Halo"] Chicago-based rock band Disappears feels pigeonholed. After having just released its second…