Every now and then in my musical spelunking I stumble upon something by chance that is honestly mind-boggling. This happened last night, when I unwittingly uncovered Sadistician.

The Chrome history is a storybook example of the volatility of creative collaboration. Two radically different artistic ideals managed to collide for a brief time with amazing results, but ultimately the dialectic was a destructive one.

Japanese drone legends Boris are currently touring Canada and the U.S. in support of their recent release, Smile. Unlike a lot of overseas bands who only frequent the major cities when coming to our shores, Boris is nice enough to schedule some stops in often overlooked places like Buffalo, Danbury, and a bunch of towns in Iowa.

I was first made aware of Deerhunter’s existence a few months ago, when I saw them billed to play somewhere with Crystal Castles. My knee-jerk reaction was to note the proximity of the two names, make a few assumptions, and pigeonhole them together based entirely on my prior knowledge of the one.

First order of business: if you are expecting this to be an article about the generic Canadian alterna-goth band with the almost identical name, check to make sure you didn’t omit an all-important “THE” at the beginning of your Google search. What we are dealing with here is the trashy, blood-curdling psychedelic noise machine that hails from the land of Natty Boh and cheap homicide (that’s Baltimore, for those of you lucky enough to have never been there).
These guys have been vandalizing a lot of eardrums (and occasionally other things) …

Two years ago, as the co-host of a d.i.y. venue in Philadelphia, I found myself serving warm beers and soggy tofu to some very agreeable gents from Argentina. This was my first encounter with Boom Boom Kid and his band. They seemed to be a rather mild-mannered bunch, but that quiet persona was shed in the frenzy which ensued from the moment they took the stage.