1. Tell Me I'm Wrong 2. Close 3. You Know I Will 4. No One Else 5. No One Hears 6. Hands Around My Neck 7. Set Me On Fire 8. There Was 9. Slow It Down 10. I Saw The Ghost That Follows You 11. Alone In Your Eyes

Bloody Knives (Austin, Texas)

(2010) LP - Burn It All Down (killredrocketrecords)

Shoegaze / Dance Punk / Noise Rock / Psychedelic Rock / Electronica

Preston Maddox (Vocals, Bass, Keyboards, Samples, Programming))

Jake McCown (Drums, Noise, Programming, Art)

(Watch the official video for ‘There Was’ by Bloody Knives)

Bloody Knives are pushing the boundaries of shoegaze with the gusto and fervor of A Place To Bury Strangers circa 2020.  Their heavier tracks are overwhelmed by grinding, DFA 1979 bass and dense atmospherics.  Preston Maddox’s voice adds an otherworldly element to the duo’s controlled chaos, imagine having a peaceful daydream while caught in the midst of a futuristic battle.

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Cool like: A Place To Bury Strangers, Death From Above 1979, Was She A Vampire, Me Us You Them, My Bloody Valentine, Autolux, Skywave

1. Short Mothers Moustached Fathers 2. Bowling Hall Bitter Love Scene 3. Fable Table 4. Alcohawk 5. Winterlude 6. This Song Comes Jam Packed With Special Features And An Alternated Ending 7. Owen Took A Bullet For Us And All He Got Was This Lousy Song Title 8. Soccer With Socrates 9. ...And We Will Know Where We Are By The Trail Of Bread 10. He Was The Hot Dog Throwing Champion Of Edmonton County

Desiderata (Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada)

(2009) LP - Alcohawk (Champion Records)

Hardcore / Hard Rock / Noise Rock

Blair Drover (Guitars, Vocals)

Ol’ Cobber (Bass, Keys)

Philipino Thunder (Drums)

(Watch a live video of  ‘Bowling Hall Bitter Love Scene’ by Desiderata)

Alcohawk is not for the feint of heart.  Ultimately, the songs are powerful with brutal drumming and sharp angular guitar riffs.  When they start using bass-heavy keys on songs like ‘Bowling Hall Bitter Love Scene’, their one-dimensional bursts of hardcore prismatically scatters into many fragments reminiscent of These Arms Are Snakes, at their very best.  Time to buckle-up cause Alcohawk will build your blood pressure and send your testosterone levels through the roof.

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Cool like:  These Arms Are Snakes, Test Icicles, The Plot To Blow Up The Eiffel Tower, Drive Like Jehu, Botch, Kill Sadie, Hot Snakes, The Blood Brothers, Jaguar Love, The Bronx

1. Cinco De Mayo 2. Blood And Arrow 3. Neon Noose 4. I Want To Know 5. Jellyroll 6. Death To Fame 7. Rollercoaster 8. Eyes To See 9. The Melting Wall 10. Jinx 11. Arson Wells

Golden Triangle (Brooklyn, NY)

(2010) LP – Double Jointer (Hardly Art)

Garage Rock / Noise Rock / Psychedelic Rock

Vashti Windish (Vocals)

Alix Brown (Bass)

Cameron Michel (Guitar)

Carly Rabalais (Vocals)

Jay Hough (Drums)

O.J. San Felipe (Guitar)

(Watch the official video for ‘Neon Noose’ by Golden Triangle)

Golden Traingle’s remedy for mediocrity is dirty psychedelic-garage that kicks-off Mardi Gras in your soul.  Their boozy Black lips guitars duel it out while haunting, girlish harmonies successfully evoke the darker spirits of rock n’ roll.

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Cool like: Black Lips, King Khan And The Shrines, Davila 666, The Strange Boys, The Raveonettes, The Fresh And Onlys, Thee Oh Sees, Beach Fossils, Beaches, The Vivian Girls

1. Drop 2. Angst 3. The New Dream 4. Don't Wake My Mother 5. State Of Ignorance

The Isolation (Göteborg, Sweden)

(2010) EP 3 – The Isolation (All Heroes Are Dead)

Shoegaze / Psychedelic Rock / Indie Rock / Dream Pop / Noise Rock

(Watch a live, stripped-down version of ‘Decade’ by The Isolation)

They’ve already given away two flawless EPs of primal noise rock.  Now The Isolation are back with their third free EP, stretching their sonic canvas even wider.  The tracks on EP3 reflect a newly found maturity in their sound.  Melodic guitar hooks and vocal harmonies now stand out over the brutal blasts of drone.  Opener ‘Drop’ sets the trap with a familiar demonic guitar snarl, only adding grit to the smile-inducing melodies that follow.

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Cool like: The Pains of Being Pure At Heart, The Raveonettes, The Morning After Girls, Gliss, The Black Ryder, Singapore Sling, A Place To Bury Strangers, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Ruling Class, Coin Under Tongue

1. Euphoric Licks 2. Taste The Trash 3. Ecstatic 4. Soothe 5. Flesh And Blood 6. Deflowers 7. Downstairs 8. Anaesthetic 9. Siamese Eyes 10. Spit Voyage

Maribel (Oslo, Norway)

(2009) LP - Aesthetics (Quince Records)

Shoegaze / Noise Rock / Dream Pop / Psychedelic Rock

Liv Inger (Vocals, Bass)

Kjetil Tangen (Drums)

Lewi Bekkesletten (Guitar)

Pal Espen Kapelrud (Vocals, Guitar)

(Watch the official video for ‘Taste The Trash’ by Maribel)

You thought A Place To Bury Strangers was the only band doing noise-soaked Shoegaze at the highest level.  Think again, Norwegian rockers Maribel beg to differ.

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Cool like: My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, Spaceman 3, A Place To Bury Strangers, Sarena-Maneesh, The Voices, Soundpool, Air Formation, Ringo Deathstarr, The Telescopes, Skywave

1. Mrs Mother Alien 2. Show Me The Sun 3. SOS Sound Of Sam 4. Spaceshift

The Koolaid Electric Company (UK)

(2008) EP – Feel Our Noise And Adore Us (White Label)

Psychedelic Rock / Shoegaze / Noise Rock / Dream Pop / Indie Rock

Dean Brown (Guitar)

Samuel Toms (Vocals, Guitar)

Dave ‘Rusty’ Griffin (Bass)

Jennifer Bollen (Keys, Tambourine, Vocals)

Henry Walker (Drums)

(Watch the official video for ‘Untitled 1′ by The Koolaid Electric Company)

More amazing Psychedelic Shoegaze from the UK.  What can I say, I can’t get enough of this sound.

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Cool like: The Morning After Girls, The Black Ryder, Singapore Sling, Soundpool, A Place To Bury Strangers, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Warlocks, Brain Jonestown Massacre, Darker My Love, Black Angels, The Dandy Warhols

1. Decade 2. Black Wind 3. Moscow Transfer

The Isolation (Göteborg, Sweden)

(2009) EP 2 – The Isolation (All Heroes Are Dead)

Shoegaze / Psychedelic Rock / Indie Rock / Dream Pop / Noise Rock

(Watch video for ‘Dancing Away’ by The Isolation)

Three more blistering bombs from the Swedish Shoegazers.  Now we are awaiting their debut LP, which is surely going to be a masterpiece of melodic noise.

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Cool like: The Dandy Warhols, The Raveonettes, The Morning After Girls, Gliss, The Black Ryder, Singapore Sling, Soundpool, A Place To Bury Strangers, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

1. Dancing Away 2. Cyclone 3. Down 4. Elevate Me 5. Swamp City

The Isolation (Göteborg, Sweden)

(2009) EP – The Isolation (All Heroes Are Dead)

Shoegaze / Psychedelic Rock / Indie Rock / Dream Pop / Noise Rock

(Listen to ‘Down’ by The Isolation)

This amazing new band from Sweden is as mysterious as they are ace, I still haven’t found the members names.  The Isolation dabble in Shoegazing, Dream pop melodies washed out with wonderful waves of noise.  Imagine Black Rebel Motorcycle Club with the addition of Oliver Ackerman (guitarist of A Place To Bury Strangers) adding his frothy brew of total-sonic annihilation.

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Cool like: The Dandy Warhols, The Raveonettes, The Morning After Girls, Gliss, The Black Ryder, Singapore Sling, Soundpool, A Place To Bury Strangers, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

1. Heavy Days 2. U Got The Look 3. Growing 4. Heavy Damage 5. The Tropics 6. Heavy Krishna 7. Bone Jam 8. Dreamscape 9. Mind Ride

Jeff The Brotherhood (Nashville, Tennessee)

(2009) LP – Heavy Days (Infinity Cat)

Hard Rock / Noise Rock / Psychedelic Rock / Punk Rock

Jake Orrall (Vocals, Guitar)

Jamin Orrall (Drums)

(Official video for Jeff The Brotherhood’s ‘U Got The Look’)

This wicked Psychedelic Grunge duo from Nashville blast through nine fantastic tracks on new LP Heavy Days.  The brothers Jake and Jamin feel right at home pummeling the listener with noisy punk riffage and in-your-face, raw rock intensity.  The Brotherhood’s jaw-dropping power is like a much needed shot of testosterone, perfect after listening to a little too much Grizzly Bear, Beach House or Dirty Projectors.

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Cool like: A Place To Bury Strangers, Coin Under Tongue, Sisters, Pursesnatchers, Grooms, The Muggabears, Sonic Youth, Japandroids, Gallows

1. Westphalia 2. Send City Down 3. Sick Fuzz 4. Two Past Weeks 5. Laudanum

Ursula Minor (Glasgow, UK)

(2008) LP – Laudanum (Phantom Sound & Vision)

Psychedelic Rock / Shoegaze / Space Rock / Noise Rock

Scott Cain (Bass)

Ross Galloway (Synths, Machines)

Mark Miller (Vocals)

Ryan Murray (Drums)

Mark Russell (Guitar, Synths)

(Ursula Minor’s ‘Two Past Weeks’)

‘Send City Down’ bubbles with APTBS fuzz and froths with BRMC vocals.

‘Sick Fuzz’ is so ill it should be called the H1 N1 Fuzz.

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Cool like: My Bloody Valentine, A Place To Bury Strangers, The Dandy Warhols, The Black Ryder, The Morning After Girls, The Raveonettes, All The Saints, The Jesus And Mary Chain, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club