Ulver Return: New Album, European Tour
Ulver, dissolvers of genre borders, return with War of the Roses on April 25th.
Help Miranda Lehman make ‘Wrong’ film
The wonderful and talented artist and musician Miranda Lehman, also known as Korouva, is making a film and is looking for loving gifts and loose change to help with the project. As you can see, the project has reached the ‘successful’ mark on Kickstarter, but that is just to cover the bare bones of production...
Isis Split
Yesterday, the mighty Isis announced their split: ISIS has reached an end. It’s hard to try to say it in any delicate way, and it is a truth that is best spoken plainly. This end isn’t something that occurred over night and it hasn’t been brought about by a single cataclysmic fracture in the band....
Stephen Kasner
It would be trite of me to bemoan to decline of the physical format as a means of distributing when this blog disseminates so much music for the consumption of anyone who happens to stumble through.The rise of digital formats and online distribution is a subject which has generated much heated debate, and whilst we...
David Lynch – Catching the Big Fish (2006)
Here at Lurker HQ we are all pretty massive David Lynch fans. From the crumbling facades of rural life in Twin Peaks to the steady wrenching terror of Inland Empire, chances are we know it, love it and quote it ad infinitum. We have touched upon our love for Angelo Badalamenti’s scores which provide the...
Oakenthrone #5 (2007)
Fantastic, professionally produced zine with great artwork, interviews and features on bands like Moss, Coffins, Harvey Milk, Blacklodge and Wold. HERE Also: I have created PDFs of the zines previously uploaded in JPG format for ease of use and storage. The download links can be found on the original posts here and here. Related musings:Black...
Khanate Live
Back before everyone reading the Observer were name-checking Sunn O))).Back before every douchebag you know was in a doom band.Back before the word doom was used to describe every stoner band that played slow bits. There was Khanate. If you can try and remember hearing Khanate for the first time, free of all the contextual...
Earth – Within the Drone (2005)
A site I spend a lot of time on is last.fm. It is a great site, really addictive: it is easy to lose hours trawling through it, the same way you would stumbling wikipedia articles: every new band, every sound snippet takes you closer to the musical zenith, the audial singularity. The one problem I...
Leopard Leg – The Seven Sistered Sea-Secret of Shh Shh Shh (2006) + Tour EP
Departing slightly from the usual theme of this here blog today I’m bringing you a band I was lucky enough to become aware of completely by accident when they were the supporting act at a gig way back in 2006.The band, now defunct, comprised of about ten girls playing a massive assortment of instruments (including...
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