Sleepytime Gorilla Museum

Album Stream: Godswounds’ Death to the Babyboomers

A heart-racing synthesis of heavy metal, horns, and videogame scores, Godswounds’ debut album is half psychedelic trip, half nutty science…

Best Albums: Relentless metal, risk-taking pop, and bluesy psych rock

Revocation: s/t Rabbit Rabbit: Rabbit Rabbit Radio, Vol. 1 Demon Queen: Exorcise Tape Old Baby: Love Hangover

Tag-teamwork: Hear wife-and-husband Rabbit Rabbit’s “Curious One”

Each with boundary-pushing credits a mile long, wife-and-husband tag-team Carla Kihlstedt and Matthias Bossi are one of those consummate couples…

Grand openings: Sleepytime Gorilla Museum members offer Free Salamander Exhibit

Art-metal ensemble Sleepytime Gorilla Museum closed its doors in 2011. Now three of its core members have grabbed a few…

Members of Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, Nels Cline Singers, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum score silent film

As part of its series pairing live musicians with a silent film, The San Francisco International Film Festival has gathered…

Carla Kihlstedt and Matthias Bossi launch Rabbit Rabbit Radio

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum's Carla Kihlstedt and Matthias Bossi have teamed up to bring you Rabbit Rabbit Radio, their latest of…

50 Unheralded Albums from 2011

In just one more trip around the sun, another swarm of immensely talented but under-recognized musicians has harnessed its collective…

Guest Spot: Carla Kihlstedt’s Necessary Monsters

Carla Kihlstedt & Matthias Bossi: Still You Lay Dreaming: Tales for the Stage, II (12 Cups, 2/1/11) Carla Kihlstedt & Matthias…

Retox and The Book of Knots to release new records on Ipecac

Retox, a new group featuring members of The Locust and many other bands, just announced that its debut album, Ugly…

John Vanderslice with The Magik*Magik Orchestra: A “Wild” Analog Opus

Singer/songwriter John Vanderslice teams with The Magik*Magik Orchestra for a honest, lush album of pop rock driven by cinematic orchestration,…

Morrow vs. Hajduch: Faun Fables’ Light of a Vaster Dark

Scott Morrow is ALARM’s music editor. Patrick Hajduch is a very important lawyer. Each week they debate the merits of…

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum: Apocalyptic Art Rock and Absurdist Humor

Experimental rock band Sleepytime Gorilla Museum dabbles in myriad styles — metal, classical, prog, and more — and pairs cosmic…