Sixeyes — The National, whose music many have labeled as gloomy, dark, and writhing with insecurities, stays the course with their latest, Trouble Will Find Me. But the biggest difference between this album and any previous is the band members have settled int... more info

The Devil Has The Best Tuna — Kult CountryFrom: Manchester, United KingdomIf you take the essence of what made The Jesus & Mary Chain so dangerous, Echo & The Bunnymen so mysterious and Joy Division so dark & disturbing and sprinkle it over some Mancunian psyconauts and you get K... more info

The Devil Has The Best Tuna — Trop TardFrom: The Past, FranceToday's featured band are French recluses Trop Tard. Their name means literally too late, which is ironic since they were in many ways both too late to ride the glum rock wave and too early to be part of subsequent scen... more info

Impose Magazine — Houston's dream-pop, synth-driven trio, Bang Bangz, build huge, layered songs aimed at some kind of spiritual transcendence. Their debut LP, Red City, resembles its name – it's music for wandering city streets, not quite upbeat enough for a club (e... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — If we’ve learned anything from the music of Joy Division and The Smiths, it’s that the good people of Manchester, England, can handle bleak, uncompromising music. They were certainly given a bracing shot of it on this autumn night in 1973, as Nei... more info

Nialler9 — If you weren’t already enthused by Belfast’s Girls Names now is the time, their second album is their best yet… Since their appearance in 2010, Girls Names’ music has mostly taken its inspirations and palette from the fringes of rock music of... more info

NME - Radar — "There’s lots of great things about Belfast but when it’s bad it’s really bleak. I’m walking right now in the pissing rain and it’s just grey. It feels like it’s grey all the time.” We’re speaking to Girls Names singer Cathal Cully on... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Bassist Peter Hook offers a vivid portrait of his influential English post-punk group and bandmate Ian Curtis. It is a sometimes heartbreaking, always engrossing memoir.Unknown Pleasures more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Photographer Anton Corbijn has over his career shot a number of iconic images: U2 in the California desert for "The Joshua Tree," William Burroughs standing in front of a shooting target, Joy Division posing in a subway tunnel. more info

The Independent — The album cover is dead, Peter Saville famously declared, killed by the iPod and MP3 generation. Fortunately, Saville, the creator of celebrated covers for artists as varied as Joy Division, Roxy Music, Peter Gabriel and Pulp, was hotter on his albu... more info