| Image by Chester Given the sulfuric dissonance, clamor, and strife present in White Suns’ noise-punk tumult, it’s hardly shocking that the Brooklyn trio count Sightings among their favorite bands. Performing and recording together, Kevin Barry, Rick Visser, and Dana Matthiessen blaze with a gunfire-stipled, sunspot intensity that befits their handle and recalls, at...
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Baltimore’s Creepy Murdle—bassist Anne Feinstein; her husband, guitarist/snarler Rich Feinstein; and drummer Clay Holland—might be MT6 Records’ most accessible signees yet. Sure, their macro-aggro crunch on debut The Little Things That Kill You comes cloaked a scrim of psychedelic bubblewrap; sure, Feinstein’s clipped, anarchistic dispatches seem to have been recorded via a busted CB...
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The taut, tense guitars lash out with gut jabs and, with the drums slamming along in time, it’s as though the instruments have been coiled and waiting forever for their chance to strike. Yet now that they’re free to do so, they’re determined to unfurl in as surgical a manner as possible: gray-black polygraph...
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City Paper contributor Ray Cummings has a nice, quick e-mail interview with MT6 Records bossman Alex Strama up on his blog, Voguing To Danzig, today you’d be wise to check out. A sampling of facts learned: the name MT6 is in fact a beer reference; Nautical Almanac moving to Baltimore changed everything for Strama...
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First non-contact encounters with bats brand themselves in memory: they’re jarring, shudder-full, unshakable. You’re going about your business–attending a Japanese Club meeting in the basement of the campus International dorm or studying in the antiquated home you’re subletting from a professor who’s away on travel–when suddenly it become clear that something furry, fanged, and...
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Now that the heat wave has kind of subsided, you can relive the last week of Code Red swamp weather with a sweaty warehouse show. Teenage noise foursome Needle Gun shares a bill tonight at the Copy Cat with Mr. Moccasin (which includes City Paper contributor Jared Fischer), Aghost, Birthing Nets, and St. Louis’...
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