A truly unhinged private press oddity from San Francisco-based band President’s Breakfast, Industrial Strength Funk In A Dub Stylee is exactly what it’s name entails. If you’re thinking […]
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In 1980, the British label Rough Trade opened a Stateside satellite office in San Francisco and, as a way of introduction, curated a 14-song collection of the label’s […]
The sound of a clumsily brilliant band figuring out how to harness their increasingly practiced musical chops while retaining the chaos required of Mark E. Smith’s lifelong project, […]
Cult Japanese avant-garde group Mariah is best-known for their 1983 masterpiece Utakata No Hibi. Led by saxophonist Yasuaki Shimizu (who released that incredible Kakashi album), the group includes other […]
Not much information is known about Los Angeles-based synth-pop band Outer Circle besides the fact that they played around the city in places like Lhasa Club and The […]
By the mid-1980s, the former punk band the Mekons had learned enough about the music machine to become completely alienated by it. They’d experimented with punk, minimalist synth […]
One of the first signings on Ivo Watts-Russell and Peter Kent’s imprint 4AD is also one of its least known, even if “Fond Affections” eventually found a bigger […]
A seminal post punk classic, Gang of Four’s debut Entertainment is a perfectly stripped down mix of punk, funk, and dub with highly political lyrics taking aim at […]
Recorded, produced, and finished in just two weeks, The Modern Dance by Cleveland-based band Pere Ubu is a pioneering post-punk classic that “pushed music into the 80’s” alongside […]
Part of New York’s underground punk scene in the late 70’s alongside Blondie, Velvet Underground, The Ramones, etc. Tom Verlaine and Television managed to both fit within and […]
The Slits were favorites in London’s punk scene for years before they recorded their first album. When they did finally step into the studio in 1979 for Cut, […]
Spearheaded by the acid-tongued icon Mark E. Smith, This Nation’s Saving Grace stands as the best from the Beggars Banquet era Fall and is widely accepted as one […]
After helping to establish the new wave scene in Paris with her partner and ZE records founder Michel Esteban and creating France’s first real noise zine, Lizzy Mercier […]
Chrome were an experimental rock band formed in San Francisco in 1975. After their first album, the group’s mastermind, Damon Edge, met guitar player Helios Creed and the […]
