Two weeks ago, Angus Andrew's newly solo project Liars announced the forthcoming album Titles With The Word Fountain and shared its lead track "Murdrum." The avant-punk veteran is back today with a bit of a sidestep from that album rollout: a single for Brooklyn label Famous Class’ LAMC (Less Artists More Condos) series honoring the…

Last year, the avant-garde group Liars became a solo project with only Angus Andrew left standing. He released TFCF and followed it up with the score to the film 1/1, the band's last recordings with Aaron Hemphill. Today Andrew is back with news of TFCF's proper follow-up, Titles With The Word Fountain.

For upwards of 20 years, El-P, the indie-rap innovator and one half of Run The Jewels, has been making clanking, sputtering, avant-garde rap beats that sounded like the score to some imaginary dystopic sci-fi movie. And now El-P is getting to score an actual movie, though not a dystopic sci-fi one. Instead, he's doing the…

Lou Reed was both an avant-rock forefather and a legendary crank, and I sincerely recommend that you spend some time with this Lester Bangs piece about a contentious Reed interview. PBS recently animated an interview that Joe Smith conducted with Reed in 1987, and it has a lot of interesting stuff about what Reed was [...]

When I interviewed Atlanta avant-punks Warehouse for a recent Band To Watch feature, we spent a significant amount of time chatting about their local scene. Atlanta is fertile breeding ground for some of the most intriguing experimental rock music to date, and Warehouse’s label- and house-mates Red Sea are another band worthy of attent...