http://swanns.bandcamp.com/

It's been a long time since we had a Swänns))) practice/jam with the band and you'll notice we've gone from 3rd to 5th rehearsal - what happened to the 4th? We asked ourselves the same question, it was fucking terrible, a total write-off so there as absolutely nothing to show for that one. Even so, it's been nearly two months since the last one, but we've been rethinking our approach, practicing solo, coming up with ideas and finally, last week, we got the chance to put them together. So here from my transparent band project in which we post…

TriAngle records has announced its first two releases, from oOoOO and Balam Acab. Details:

http://nfrblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/tri-angle-records-announces-debut.html

Liverpool's incredible Forest Swords released his new record, Rattling Cage yesterday through No Pain In Pop. Available on 7" limited to 300 copies.

"…Filtered through tones of Dario Argento, David Lynch and Nicholas Roeg, it is the perfect haunting accompaniment to the creeped out music of the Wirral resident - reconfiguring ghost-psych bands like The Shadow Ring through a shadowy hypnagogic prism of saturated delay, reverb and ethereal smoked out hip-hop memories…"

More review, links, videos and picturs on the blog:

http://nfrblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/download-forest-swords-rattling-cage-7.html

New blog post review of Ice Dragon's The Burl, The Earth, The Aether

Intro posted here, more words, links and tracks after the jump:

http://nfrblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/ice-dragon.html

I seem to be going through a bit of a Metal phase at the moment, getting back into some doomy slabs of tidal wave sized riffing and gruff axe-wielding vocals. The Sloath album has been begging for a post of it's own because its a monumental, towering breaker of blackened drone - but i will save that for its own moment. For now I want to present Boston, MA based Ice Dragon and their…

New blog post up on new solo coldwave electro outfit Felt Drawings:

Starts like this, more after the jump: http://nfrblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/felt-drawings.html

Felt Drawings is the electronic/experimental/pop project of Los Angeles based Dominic Tiberio. The borderline twee name belies a darker sound behind it. Similar to other subterranean ~wavers like Cold Cave, Xiu Xiu, Blank Dogs or a downtempoed Railcars - by way of skittery beats, overloaded circuitry, guitar fuzz and blown out production it also shares a cleaner more serene claustrophobic atmosphere along the lines of the XX or Mount Kimbie.

iPod didn’t scrobble 2 days of listening this week, so there’s a lot of Best Coast, Ice Dragon and Wild Nothing missing off here.

1. Best Coast - 118
2. Sing and Sign - 43
3. Roald Dahl - 40
4. Gonjasufi - 35
5. Mogwai - 31
6. Wild Nothing - 30
7. LA Vampires & Zola Jesus - 21
8. Ice Dragon - 20
9. Blackbird Blackbird - 19
10. Janelle Monáe - 18

1. This is the perfect summer record I was hoping for, even if it doesn’t have anything quite as outrageously perfect as Sun…

Sun 4 Jul – Memoryhouse

This was one of those gigs where I wasn't really expecting great things, just a very pleasant experience; but I massively understimated Memoryhouse! All three of them looked pretty cool up there - Adrian Vieni, the live bassist/guitarist should be a permanent fixture. He's got a good face! Mo reimportantly, his guitar tones are awesome too, really full and dense and he's got some fine control over his fx pedals, constantly warping the tone and texture to add extra rhythm and detail as a sumptuous backdrop to Evan's more trebly guitars. Denise actually looked…

Yeah, you heard right. Welsh tweesters Los Campesinos! getting involved in rescrubbing Witch House act White Ring!

Download links and ep details on the blog:

http://nfrblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/white-ring-suffocation-los-campesinos.html

Many Brighton gig goers will already know the unstable recent history of the Freebutt, and yet again it is under threat of closure from the Council and Environental Health.
The Freebutt is one of the landmark venues on the international touring circuit; it is not only renowned in Brighton but the world over. Taking it away would be a cultural disaster equal to the shutting down of CBGB's in New York. The current owners and promotors are making a significant positive impact on a variety of musics both locally and internationally. It would be a senseless loss to an enormous…

Jagjaguwar have put up a very tantalising free teaser track/new single (it's getting pretty hard to tell the difference these days!) from the new Black Mountain album Wilderness Hearts, due for release on September 13th.

The track is called Old Fangs and it's pretty rockin'. More details and download links on the blog:

http://nfrblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/new-black-mountain-album-details-and.html