Avant garde post-punk outfit Throbbing Gristle played its first ever NY gig last night. Only 32 years year in the making. The industrial music pioneers, led by legendary transgender front person Genesis P-Orridge, previously played the US just twice; those shows took place in 1981 in California, and that's where they'll return this weekend for C...

NAME: Patrick WolfPROGRESS REPORT: Releasing his fourth album, The Bachelor (Bloody Chamber Music), on June 1.Patrick Wolf is 6'4", has a shock of white-blond hair and a penchant for avant-garde fashion, Elizabethan music, and baroque set design. So yeah, it's no surprise that Universal Records, his last record label, wasn't the best home for h...

Photo by Eric Landmark -- SF avant-rockers Deerhoof have teamed up with the collaborative music website Indaba to open up their song "Buck and Judy" for remixing--and re-playing-- purposes. They've uploaded the sheet music, tabs, and all the stems from the song to Indaba, and now you can play around with the song however you want, removing...

Forty years on, there's still new Beatles music being uncovered. The Chicago Tribune's Pop Machine blog recently posted this YouTube stream of a leaked outtake of "Revolution" (ID'd on YouTube as "take20 RM1"). Mark Caro at the Trib titled his post "Revolution 1 + 9 = a 10!" because this lengthy version fuses the pop song of "Revolution 1" (it's...

Swedish producers Christian Karlsson and Pontus Winnberg, aka Bloodshy & Avant, have joined forces with Fires of Rome/Downtown's in-house producer Andrew Wyatt to form the band Miike Snow. Their self-titled debut's not out until 6/9 (Downtown), in the interim they're mixing Vampire Weekend. Check this pleasantly squiggly, bedroom-feeling ele...