Since 2004, OM have burned their name into the desert sky and the sands of scorched earth! OM albums are rituals, personal convictions transcribed into verse and playing the music live is a visceral, emotional, catharsis of soul and spirit. Al & Emil are bringing their rhythmic rumblings smack dub in middle of our wintery season to vibrate good news: they've got a West Coast tour beginning this weekend in Seattle! With dates stretching up and down the Pacific; OM aim to bring heavenly, wavy... (read more)

In a world of pure imagination, take a long look and you'll see...the video for "Phone" from the freshly released I Have to Feed Larry's Hawk by Tim Presley's White Fence! Here, neon dreams come alive with a lava lamp glow and wobbly, willy wonka kitsch to create brain food for a new wave theater, in which you will find yourself watching "Phone". The second TP/WF video from Ashley Goodall (see also, "I Have To Feed Larry's Hawk"), "Phone" warms you up and... (read more)

Riders of the purple sage, the storm and Dead: prepare thyselves for broken beats, hot magnetic pulses of rhythm, guitar skronk and scraps of raps roaring through your Southern municipal metropolitan area! Lords of chaos, or Dead Rider as they like to be called, are ripping through clubs and bars throughout MO, KY and AR, infecting every man, woman and child in their wake. Moving relentlessly around the borders of their sound, DR are always finding new textures throughout, rebuilding and re-grooving to rock you... (read more)

Smoke signals, sirens, urgent messages: Bill MacKay's six-string mastery pulses like a sun with (Sandy) Bull-ish psycho fusions on Fountain Fire, his second solo album for Drag City. The fire in the album title is a continuity in Bill's life - part of his genealogy, his living history, his astrology and the scorching effect of the over-driven slide throughout the album!

Bill melds slide, acoustic and distorted electric tones on Fountain Fire to explore the enigma at the end of a... (read more)