When it was announced in May that Scratch Acid, the legendarily raucous, influential and short-lived punk/hardcore foursome formed in Austin in 1981, would be reuniting for the Jeff Mangum-curated All Tomorrow's Parties festival in Minehead, U.K., bassist David Wm. Sims also dropped the news that the band would play dates in the U.S. as well. more ›

Some may classify When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth’s sound as an aimless racket serving only to damage healthy ear drums and scare innocent children. But that would be a tad unfair. On closer listen, it becomes apparent that there is indeed order within the cacophony, and the ridiculously loud commotion can be quite exhilarating when welcomed into your ears with an open mind (and perhaps, a pair of ear plugs). These local noise-brokers have causing a ruckus in town for half a decade now; Peaced, set for release this summer, is the latest chapter in their book of blistering post-punk mayhem. Throughout the 20 plus minutes of bedlam, the band churns out throbbing reverberations of high magnitude, complete with maniacal howls and yowls aplenty and screeching guitars galore. It may not serve as a backdrop for your next blissful dream but it could very well power that outlandish nightmare you can’t wrap your head around. more ›

Brooklyn's Pterodactyl play frenetic, razor-sharp fuzz rock, sounding something like Unwound or maybe even Feels-era Animal Collective played at 45 instead of 33. Their latest record, Worldwild is out now on Jagjaguwar, and features Joe and Matt, Zach (Ex Models, Knyfe Hyts, the Seconds), and Jesse (Twin Powers, When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth). more ›

The trio of hardcore balladeers known as Double Dagger have made a big impact as of late not just in their native Baltimore, but all over (including, yes, the blogosphere) after the May release of More. more ›

It's hard enough being in a band and worrying about people ripping off your sound, or ripping your album off the internet, without also having to worry about your musical gear getting ripped off as well. Sadly, that's what happened to our own When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth. Whoever stole their stuff no doubt has a karmic ass-whumping coming to 'em, but for now, the band's pals have stepped in for a benefit show at Beerland to offset some of the cost of buying all new shit. more ›

Emo's has a strong, loud lineup planned for this evening, featuring veterans and newbies alike. Air Traffic Controllers has been a project of Gerard Cosloy's for almost fifteen years, and has mutated a significant amount of times. more ›

Some of us out there long for the days of lo-fi, before everything was digital and silky-smooth, when tape hiss roared in the background and the vocals were scratchier than anything a real human voicebox could create, and guitars were crunchy and ugly—you know, the time when the technology of recording music was so unrefined it lent the music a spontaneous kind of character, roughing up the sounds rather than prettying them. For years, those of us who missed the days before Danger Mouse flocked to deliberately lo-fi acts like The Mountain Goats, The Moldy Peaches' Kimya Dawson, and M. Ward, before all of them decided the lure of 21st century recording was too much to ignore. But the good news is, there's a new hero on the lo-fi block: Columbus, Ohio's Times New Viking write catchy rock music that just so happens to be covered in a delightful veil of recording ugliness. They have garnered praise throughout the music community for their tunes, and their loud, unpolished studio work brings to mind DIY punk and the days of audio cassettes melting in the front seat of your car. And you can witness their refusal to go pretty tonight at Emo's. more ›

This Austin band likely chose this moniker because if dinosaurs all of a sudden pulled off the greatest coups ever and rose from ocean depths to take back the planet, this would be the band they listened to as they stomped feeble humans in highly populated areas. It’s sludgy, hearty and crude. The seven-way brutal noise explosion that is this group just released their debut, Not Noiice, with a sound mixing overlapping primal vocals, music scrapes, distorted chords and pure fun that could encourage either artful interpretive dance or a straight-up slam fest. more ›