Slackk’s favourite tracks
The grime don, whose LP Palm Tree Fire is out this week, empties the contents of his psychic record bag...
View Article'Hello Cleveland. We are Diarrhea Planet!'
From Circle Jerks to Cerebral Ballzy, choosing the most obnoxious name possible is a much-loved tradition among punk bands. Here, we run the rule over the latest crop of semi-offensive monikers...
View ArticleThe Gaslamp Killer Experience debuts in the UK at KOKO in London
The Gaslamp Killer brings his incredible live show to our shores for the first time ever Date published: 22nd Apr 2015 Image: The Gaslamp Killer Following its resurrection at Coachella, The Gaslamp...
View ArticleSEXWITCH: ‘It’s like a voodoo exorcism’
Bat For Lashes singer Natasha Khan scoured the world for her latest project, turning music from Thailand, Iran and 60s California into intense psychedelic rituals...
View ArticleThis week’s new live music
The Gaslamp Killer | Real Lies | Bob Dylan | Battles | Marcus Miller | Philharmonia Orchestra...
View ArticleWatch Gaslamp Killer Experience's Trippy 'Ritual' Video
Los Angeles DJ/producer extraordinaire the Gaslamp Killer has dropped his trippy new music video for the hypnotic cut "Ritual." The video combines live video shot at the Gaslamp Killer Experience's...
View ArticleThe Gaslamp Killer's Near-Death Account
Credit: Kevin Scanlon[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] The doctors told The Gaslamp...
View ArticleBen Wheatley: 'I don't think I'll ever be a Hollywood guy'
The far out British director is following Sightseers with a micro-budget psychedelic civil war-era head trip. But don't rule him out of having a crack at Spider-Man one day...
View ArticleQ&A: El-P and Killer Mike Talk Their 'Celebration of Dope' in New Duo Run the...
El-P and Killer Mike have spent the past couple of years making albums together and touring, releasing two of 2012's most lauded hip-hop records. El-P's Cancer 4 Cure was an intense, aggravated album...
View ArticleLou Reed on Kanye West's Yeezus: 'It brings tears to my eyes'
There are the obligatory blowjobs and menages-a-trois, the synth buzzsaws and jumpcuts, complains Lou Reed – so why is he so in awe of this 'inspiring, majestic' album?...
View ArticleHolden
Back when I were a lad, techno was techno. The good shit sounded like a barn door banging in a Force-10 gale with deep basslines and some wobbly 303 lines thrown on top for melody. But machine music is...
View ArticleNever Give Your Kid A Cold Shower: Advice From The Worst Dad On Earth
Excerpted from Someone Could Get Hurt: A Memoir of Twenty-First-Century Parenthood, which makes a great Father's Day gift for foul-mouthed dads everywhere. I was on the phone with my dad and he...
View ArticleMiley Cyrus, Flaming Lips Stage Surreal Spectacle at Dead Petz Tour Opener
Over the course of two-plus hours at her Dead Petz tour opener, Miley Cyrus put on one of the most fantastically strange shows in recent memory, notable for the blunt muchness of every possible aspect....
View ArticleBen Wheatley: master of the macabre
For its American release in May, the poster for Ben Wheatley's last film – the brutal caravan odyssey Sightseers – acquired a few extra elements. The UK version featured the Lake District's Bonnie and...
View ArticleBlack Keys’ Dan Auerbach on Dylan, Lana Del Rey, New Psych-Soul Project
In the past few years, whenever he hasn't been busy selling out arenas with Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney, Dan Auerbach has booked informal jam sessions with a loose group of friends including...
View ArticleWhat It's Like Inside A Plane Crash And How To Survive One
Last night's insane crash in Taipei got me wondering what it'd be like to experience such an event. So I talked legendary adventurer Robert Young Pelton, who survived a very similar experience. Here's...
View ArticleDress As Slutty As You Want This Halloween, Just Don't Act Like A Dick
Much has been made of Halloween's gradual transformation from a holiday that exists as a way to commemorate our ancient superstitions about ghosts into a holiday that exists as a way to get hepatitis...
View ArticleBen Wheatley: 'I don't think I'll ever be a Hollywood guy'
The far out British director is following Sightseers with a micro-budget psychedelic civil war-era head trip. But don't rule him out of having a crack at Spider-Man one day...
View ArticleThe Seventh Circle of Hell
If you have some free time and want to feel like doing a swan dive off a skyscraper later -- go to Toys 'R' Us. I prance into the gargantuan store alongside a young woman carrying an adorably plump...
View ArticleQ&A: El-P and Killer Mike Talk Their 'Celebration of Dope' in New Duo Run the...
El-P and Killer Mike have spent the past couple of years making albums together and touring, releasing two of 2012's most lauded hip-hop records. El-P's Cancer 4 Cure was an intense, aggravated album...
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