Pitchfork - Album Reviews — Black Pus is Lightning Bolt drummer Brian Chippendale’s pop-inspired side project. Don’t get the wrong idea, though. The drummer’s solo-musings are only “pop” in comparison to his main gig, whose expansive, abstract t... more info

Guardian Music — Canada's equivalent of the Mercury prize also includes Feist, Cold Specks and Japandroids among othersDrake, Grimes and a Noh-theatre-inspired psych band are among the nominees for this year's Polaris prize, Canada's biggest music award. Ten albums h... more info

melophobe — Credit drummer/producer Alaska B for making this blended—post-punk, metal, opera, ambient, prog—sound not just natural but seamless. There’s a lot of moving parts here, with singing both in English (which I sorta deciphered through the noise) a... more info

Guardian Music — Co-founder of US alt-rock's dedicated provocateurs leaves the group after 25 yearsGene Ween has left Ween. The band's co-founder has announced his retirement from one of the most provocative roups in American alternative rock, choosing instead to foc... more info

Impose Magazine — When former Pit Er Pat founder Butchy Fuego is not performing and touring in Boredoms, he stays productive as San Gabriel. With a name like Butchy Fuego, one would think an alias is unnecessary, but the San Gabriel moniker, with its East LA connotati... more info

Stereogum — Like they did on 7/7/07 with 77 Boadrum, 8/8/08 with 88 Boadrum, ’09 with Boadrum 9, and last year with, you got it, Boadrum 10, the numerological experimentalist heroes of Boredums will assemble another world-class drum circle this year, on the co... more info

We Like it Lossless! — Sub Rosa / 2007For a fifth time the good folks over at Sub Rosa attempt to assemble some sort of coherent history of electronic music, this time focussing on the role of the voice in electroacoustic composition, and the avant-garde more broadly. This... more info

Impose Magazine — This band's name has always sounded like it should be the title of an album by Japanese noise-rock gods The Boredoms. BMSR do have weird names themselves (Tobacco, Seven Fields of Aphelion), but they are not Japanese, however. In fact, they hail from... more info

Stereogum — Liturgy’s Greg Fox is an amazing drummer, one who showcases an otherworldly serenity, even when destroying his kit. Outside of Liturgy, he’s a NYC noise/art-rock staple who’s made sounds with Amen Dunes, Teeth Mountain, Guardian Alien, Family O... more info

Altsounds — ATP Concerts are very excited to present the return of Neutral Milk Hotel's Jeff Mangum to headline and curate our first of two festival weekends this December at Butlins, Minehead. Today we can confirm new addition to the festival (see below), and... more info