Live Daily — Plus: Dave Alvin, Phoenix, more * * * Marilyn Manson "The High End of Low" (Nothing) The shock-rocker returns with a follow-up to 2007's "Eat Me, Drink Me." "The High End of Low" is Manson's seventh studio album. The record's first official single... more info

Buzzgrinder — The world has been abuzz about the new Grizzly Bear record, and I completely buy into it. Let's hope for the best. I've been hearing only great things about the new Sunn 0))) album. I expect lots of fifty minutes of guitar feedback and rumbling noi... more info

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The Playlist — Summer's upon us any moment now, which means temperatures rise, IQ levels drop and the worst of the worst (ok, admittedly not as bad as the January-Feb season), or at least the halfwit mainstream bullshit rises to the top. However, there's always som... more info

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Guardian Music — Over the past decade one group has helped destroy the idea that the heavier reaches of metal are conservative backwaters, forever in thrall to black leather and compulsive musical onanism. Formed by Stephen O'Malley and Greg Anderson as a tribute ban... more info

Pitchfork — With their black robes and impossibly foggy live shows, drone-metal duo Sunn O))) could be mistaken for a parody, if they didn't make music that heaves with the intensity of a contemplative Deathlord. We called their last solo studio album, Black On... more info

Pitchfork — 'Tis the season for giving and hall-decking and so forth, and in the spirit of both, Oregon's Glass Casters Union is back with another round of indie rock-themed charity ornaments. Last year, the GCU offered up decorations designed by the l... more info