Guardian Music — Whether deliberately dissonant or simply playing out of tune, there's a thrilling world of uneasy listening out thereCaroleBristol identified three separate topics within this week's theme: "records that deliberately use dissonance", "records that ha... more info

Guardian Music — Whether deliberately obscure or just plain amateurish, sometimes the best tunes are, well, out of tune. Nominate your favourites hereNot all great records feature superb playing by brilliant musicians. In fact some achieve greatness while also being ... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Tongue said... LOU REED - Lou Reed fuzzlove http://youngmosstongue.blogspot.com stytzer said... Songs posted today: + League - Golden Maps + Tristen - Eager For Your Love + Dearling Physique - Discipline Your Hands + Easter Island - Proud + The Hol... more info

The Culture Of Me — Filtering the violence, crassness, fire, fervor and directness of punk rock and thrash music through a sieve that only an all-Japanese (no less all-female) approach can do, now-Brooklyn-based four-piece Hard Nips sound not unlike a mixture of the bes... more info

Guardian Music — Paul Morley steps into the sleepy, mysterious, terrifying world of LA rock band Warpaint At some point, it seemed, which was strange, at least this is what I tell myself, in between chatting with JLS and meeting McFly, as if I was playing a poor vers... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — today in NYC * The Raincoats @ MoMA * Improv night @ The Stone * Furthur @ Madison Square Garden * Glenn Branca @ Le Poisson Rouge * The O'Jays @ Brooklyn Academy of Music * Overkill @ Starland... more info

Allmusic Blog — If you are tired of noisy, poppy, vaguely surf-y bands made up of all girls that are influenced by groups like X-Ray Spex, the Raincoats and Talulah Gosh, first you should have your head examined. Next, you should take a deep breath and listen to Gra... more info

Allmusic Blog — As we close out our feature on 40 of the first 100 singles/EPs released on Rough Trade (see parts one and two), it’s very important to note that the same span of time involved nearly 40 albums, including Cabaret Voltaire’s Red Mecca, the Fall’s... more info

Stereogum — Trash Kit is the London-based post-punk trio of Rachel Aggs, Rachel Horwood and Ros Murray. Their 17-song self-titled debut runs by in an energetic 27 minutes. When Upset! The Rhythm passed it along to me, they scribbled a note that referred to the s... more info

Pitchfork — Before Sleater-Kinney went on indefinite hiatus in 2006, Corin Tucker's feral wail was one of the most righteous, powerful, earth-shattering sounds in all of indiedom. But since then, we've been largely deprived of that voice. Tucker has sung backup ... more info