Lovingly pinched from Dusted Magazine: It might be a bit melodramatic to say that a man had to die to make this box happen, but there can be no doubt that Klaus Dinger?s passing in 2008 made its realization a whole lot easier. The well-documented friction between guitarist Michael Rother and drummer ...

Wino‘s new live album, Live at Roadburn 2009, has been issued on CD via Roadburn Records. Dedicated to the late Jon Blank, this album captured Wino‘s stunning performance at Roadburn Festival 2009′s Afterburner event. Backed by Jon Blank on bass and Clutch’s JP Gaster (drums) ...

Sludge bastards Weedeater have announced several new headlining shows throughout the Midwest and Southeastern US this September. Kicking things off in their home state, the band will devastate the crowd at Raleigh, North Carolina's Hopscotch Festival on September 11th, also with Public Enemy, Tortoi ...

Lovingly pinched from Tiny Mix Tapes: I don't like to go nuts on titles as nose-tapping theses for reviews, but I think we can all agree that Pure Moods is a fucking great name for a record - an invitation to a real face-melter, if it's as sarcastic as it sounds. The title's also very thin ice for a ...

Incorporating elements of hard rock, punk, and metal, La Otracina (featuring members of Titan, Children, and the dearly-departed Nebula) still know how to lock into a heavy-psychedelic groove, and they do it well. The retro-leaning band will show off some of those XL riffs on a new LP Reality Has Go ...

Fresh off the success of their first collaboration, a 7″ split single between Stone Axe and Mighty High, multi-instrumentalist and rock preservationist T. Dallas Reed has signed with Ripple Music to re-release the critically praised Stone Axe self-titled debut on both vinyl and deluxe CD packa ...

Praise for Horseback‘s The Invisible Mountain from San Francisco’s aQuarius Records: Something very strange must have transpired since the last Horseback disc. Something traumatic maybe? Some spiritual crisis of sonic faith? Where that record was a glistening, glimmering, dreamy, drifty ...