Belgian trio Brutus mix elements of punk rock, progressive metal and post-hardcore into a bizarre and infectious stew. The band is set to release their debut record, Burst, and today you can hear the whole thing front to back. Opener…

What started as an innocent hoax played on my former fiancé — now wife, don’t worry — turned into a pretty amazing post-wedding gift when British math-rock band TTNG dedicated a song on stage to us newlyweds.

Lemme explain. A…

“I would like to dedicate this to a dog we met yesterday, who was very gracious about letting us bother him,” said Henry ‘Hank’ Tremain as he introduced their closing song for the night.

It wasn’t the first dedication the…

Lars Gotrich

This was going to be the last Boris album. After nearly three decades, the Japanese trio wasn’t sure they had anything left to express. Boris’ impact on practically every heavy musical vein — metal, shoegaze, punk, noise and…

Deafheaven. The complaints I’ve heard over the years about Deafheaven run the gamut from too emo, too contrived, not true enough, etc. They are a polarizing band, but I’m entirely convinced this comes from attempts to peg them as something they aren’t. The shoegaze-y, effect-laden weight of Deafheaven’s sound can hardly be categorized as black metal alone. Tonight, vocalist George Clarke’s schizophrenic movements were the focal point, fluctuating more extremely than ever between manic orchestra conductor and serpent-like seductor. Stinging guitars and merciless drumming cut through the auditorium like a knife.

A palpable post-Deafheaven buzz continued into the wee hours. The night swirled into a maze reunions with old friends, clinking glasses and excitement for the three days to come.

Choice set: Deafheaven

Deafheaven has added two Mexico dates with MONO to their ongoing European and North America tour. See below for a full list of announced shows. Tickets available HERE.

DEAFHEAVEN LIVE 2017

May 16 Niagara Falls, NY @…

In one of recent years’ more surprising collaborations, Kevin Martin (AKA The Bug, Ice, Techno Animal, God) and Dylan Carlson (AKA Earth) have followed up a 2014 EP with a full album: ‘Concrete Desert’.

Having each established a reputation in what might seem, on the surface, like completely different fields — one in bass-heavy dub-inflected electronica, the other in bass-heavy minimalist guitar drone — 'Concrete Desert’ is a powerful demonstration of what genuine musical risk-taking and an ear open to shared loves can do.

Clash caught up with the dynamic duo at Ninja Tune’s headquarters in Kennington, London.

Belgian punks Brutus recently signed to Sargent House, and their new album Burst will be out this digitally this Friday (5/12) and physically on June 30 (pre-order). They recorded it in Vancouver with producer Jesse Gander…

Big Walnuts Yonder is bassist/vocalist Mike Watt (Minutemen, The Stooges), guitarist Nels Cline (Wilco, Nels Cline Singers), drummer Greg Saunier (Deerhoof) and guitarist/vocalist Nick Reinhart (Tera Melos). It is not a supergroup. “It’s worlds colliding,” says Mike Watt.

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Happy release day to Big Walnuts Yonder!

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Loudwire has an exclusive music video premiere from Mutoid Man! From the band’s sophomore full-length album, War Moans, watch the clip for “Kiss of Death” HERE.

Mutoid Man are a three-man crew of crazy talented musicians. Featuring Cave In…

Back in 2008,  Mike Watt of Minutemen and The Stooges and Tera Melos’ Nick Reinhart came up with the idea for a collaborative project that would allow their creativity to stretch beyond what their mainstay outfits allowed them. It wasn’t hard to convince Nels Cline (Wilco, Nels Cline Singers) and Greg Saunier (Deerhoof) to join in on the project, but getting everyone together to record the thing was a different story. In 2014, the group finally got together under the banner Big Walnuts Yonder and recorded what would become their debut self-titled LP. On May 5th, the long journey will finally reach its conclusion when Big Walnut Yonder drops via Sargent House.

Watt wrote eight of the album’s 10 tracks, with Cline and Saunier each contributing one of their own. After months of emailing back and forth, the songs were recorded in a marathon three-day session with producer Tony Maimone at his Studio G in Brooklyn. “Basically we had to invent a new band on the spot which was different from what we had in our imaginations,” Saunier said in a press release. “[Big Walnuts Yonder] is not what you’d expect. You can put musicians together with an expectation or stereotype of what each person does, but everyone showed up to this to do what they CAN’T do, what they’re prevented from doing in other groups.”