EXCLUSIVE // PAPER MICE RETURN WITH 1-800 MONDAYS
It’s been nearly 9 years since Paper Mice released last album, The Funny Papers, and it’s glorious news...
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EXCLUSIVE // Stream the latest video from the NY No Wave Stallions in Horse Torso
Horse Torso is a 4-piece chaotic, instrumental no wave/math rock band featuring bassist Nick Jost of Baroness, drummer/composer...
EXCLUSIVE // Pony Up and Pony Down With the New Double EP from ShowPony
Pony Up/Pony Down is the new Double EP by Washington D.C./Pittsburgh math rock trio ShowPony. The clever naming for their new release(s) is also an interesting concept with simultaneously releasing EPs that are distinctly different in musical styling and tone...
EXCLUSIVE // Monotrope deliver mind-boggling instrumental math-rock in their new video ‘Prismatic Symmetry’
Monotrope is set to release their second album, Immutable Future, on November 21, and we’re thrilled to have the exclusive premiere for their music video for the aptly titled 'Prismatic Symmetry'. The band’s debut album, Unifying Receiver, was a real treat for fans of 90’s influenced more angular styled math rock, and Immutable Future further develops the band’s sound and style.
EXCLUSIVE // Chicago Veterans American Draft (ex-Volta Do Mar) Celebrate 20 Years As A Band With ‘The Rescue’
The Rescue is the new full-length album by Chicago instrumental juggernauts American Draft. Formed in 1999, American Draft features Jeff Wojtysiak (bass) and Mike Baldwin (guitar) of iconic 90’s and early 2000’s Chicago math rock band Volta Do Mar (in fact, their 2001 album, At The Speed Of Light Or Day, was included in our list of 100 great math rock albums you’ve never heard).
EXCLUSIVE // Stream JOB’s dark new album ‘Meaningless’ in its entirety
JOB is an instrumental band from Chicago whose music is neither devotional nor vocational in theme, but rather an answered prayer for those who long to translate outside vibrations flooding towards the cochlea of the inner ear into the flush and rush of some paradoxical, refined barbarism.
EXCLUSIVE // Chicago instrumental trio Cascader premiere their first single ‘Monolithic Lung’
Chicago has no shortage of instrumental rock bands continually coming out of the Windy City, and Cascader is continuing the lineage of Midwest instrumental trios that come before them.
FOCUS // Death And The Penguin: The name, the road, the UPGEFUKT festival
The mathy pop proggers Death and the Penguin released their long awaited debut full-length album, Anomie, earlier this summer in partnership with Lonely Voyage Records. Since forming in 2013, the band has established itself as a must see live act and made their ArcTanGent debut this year as well as playing WRONG Festival.
Math Rock That Time Forgot: The Story of Glans, How They Became Lynx, and an Exclusive Album Premiere 20 Years in the Making…
This is the story of Glans, a math rock band lost in the annals of time. It's a story that involves Dave Konopka of Battles, the underground Boston math rock scene, and an exclusive premiere of an unreleased album 20 years since its original recording.
The History of Math Rock Pt 3: Take Five to Find Out Why ‘Time Out’ is the First Math Rock Album
In the first couple decades of a new century a genre music formed that became popular with the youth of the time who enjoyed underground non-mainstream music. Part of the sound of this music was forged from using innovative music technology that recently became available as well as specific playing techniques and styles not being used in other forms of contemporary music.