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LA, California’s Chingalera is made up of Dave Gibney (acoustic guitar, vocals), Ben Shirley (bass) and Tommy Holt (drums), and their debut recording, 2007’s In the Darkness of the Dark Hand Tree, melds such disparate affects while the Melvins, Helmet, Device, and Dark Sabbath, right into a long-winded, slow-moving, even-slower-resolving, …

Organic, political, visceral, and genre-bending, 1 DAY being a Lion is a cooperation between Trend Against the device vocalist Zack de la Rocha and ex-Mars Volta drummer Jon Theodore. Mixing elements of rock and roll, steel, rap, and punk, the duo released its eponymous debut EP over the Anti label …

Magnetic Man were shaped in 2007 by dubstep producer/DJs Artwork, Benga, and Skream. They initial appeared on a set of industrial mixes released in 2007: Dubstep Allstars, Vol. 5, blended by N-Type, and Wash: 01, blended by Geeneus. The next season, “Ligma VIP” made an appearance on Mary Anne Hobbs’ …

JAPAN Popstars are an electric trio from Derry, Northern Ireland, focusing on the same type of pop-leaning big beats that fueled ’90s acts like Underworld, the Prodigy, and Orbital. Gary Curran (aka DJ Curntables), Declan McLaughlin (aka Decky Hedrock), and Gareth “Galo” Donoghue debuted using the one “Rodney Trotter” (called …

Berlin-based French musician David Letellier, aka Kangding Ray, played out in bands being a guitarist and drummer ahead of taking on production of digital music. His debut record for Raster-Noton, Stabil (2006), was a sharpened, glitchy established that included acoustic and sampled-and-looped components. Its 2008 follow-up, Automne Flip, was markedly …

A staple in the artwork and music community of Chicago, singer and multi-instrumentalist Robert A.A. Lowe (no regards to professional Rob Lowe) splits his period among a number of artwork rock and roll, freak folk, and quirky indie rock and roll projects. He became a member of up with the …

Pentemple were formed in 2007 for any one-off improvisational overall performance in Melbourne, Australia; their dark and brutal soundscapes had been built by Sunn 0))) duo Greg Anderson and Stephen O’Malley along with Oren Ambarchi, Attila Csihar, and dark metal designer Striborg. Southern Lord released the concert recording 0))) Presents… …

Insect Warfare certainly are a grindcore music group from Houston, TX, known for his or her unbridled ferocity and studious commitment to perpetuating this radical intense music subgenre in it is most undiluted and least accessible form. Originally founded in 2004, the music group quickly produced a name for itself …

Through the mid- to late 2000s, Omar Cruz surfaced among the most encouraging Latino rappers in LA, where his popularity within the underground mixtape circuit resulted in a major-label documenting contract. Created in LA the son of the Columbian dad and a Mexican mom, Cruz was raised in South Central …

Based in the Abbey of Stift Heiligenkreuz, in the Vienna woods part of Austria, the Cistercian Monks found the attention from the pop music and classical crossover-buying audience using the launch from the album Chant: Music for the Soul — (the album was entitled Chant: Music for Paradise in Europe) …