Joyful Noise

In the ’90s, Jad Fair had five favorite bands and songwriters: Daniel Johnston, The Pastels, Sonic Youth, Teenage Fanclub, and Yo La Tengo. It’s a good list, sure, but what’s most remarkable about it is that, in the course of a dozen years or so, Fair mad

One of the most acclaimed songwriters of the 21st century via his work with Tropical Fuck Storm and The Drones, Gareth Liddiard’s 2010 solo album Strange Tourist gets a much-deserved reissue via Joyful Noise Recordings on August 25th, 2023.

While Liddi

Feast or famine, Springtime will continue to sow their garden of auditory delights. Despite the global unrest and strict lockdowns that have come to define the past three years, Gareth Liddiard (Tropical Fuck Storm, The Drones), Jim White (Dirty Three, Xy

"This Springtime record is so full of strange wanderings that are broken and piled up on themselves that the heads have no idea where their tails are. The live recording of Will Oldham's "West Palm Beach" is treated with love and respect and would certain

For a band that seems to thrive on collapse, it’s simply amazing that this US/Japanese quartet is now celebrating their 31st year. Though Deerhoof long ago established itself as one of the greatest rock groups ever to stride the earth—and if you think tha

It's easy to forget just how deeply weird the 1990s were. It was a time when one could sit down with one's father as he watched NASCAR on TV and hear "Natural One" by The Folk Implosion - their song inescapably employed as bumper music before the next com

Submersive Behaviour is our favorite Australian art-punk combo’s take on the tried and true “covers record” concept. Over the course of 36 minutes, TFS puts their deranged spin on classics by Jimi Hendrix, Middle Aged in the Middle East in the Middle Ages

Tropical Fuck Storm: Deep States (teal vinyl) LP