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North Carolina! C’mon and Raise Up
SO, obviously the list of North Carolina bands is quite random.. but I just wanted to do a shout out to my friends on the south side! I planned on just making a small list including my pals in The Orchidales, Paint Fumes and Modern Primitives, but then I got influenced to research some other […]
HEAVY METAL MIXTAPE + ANNOTATIONS
1. TRIBAL CONVICTIONS – VOIVOD The operative question with Voivod here, as ever: whatthefuck. But, the endurance of that question speaks to the band’s staying power, and makes it impossible to dismiss them as simply zany. There’s something fuuuuucked about Voivod. Can’t understand why they made the musical decisions they did, can’t even understand how […]
David Yow Album Trailer
Yow, notorious demiurge of Jesus Lizard and Scratch Acid fame, creates–from the dust of the earth– Concrete Monoliths for the limited edition vinyl deluxe release of his solo album “Tonight you look like a spider“. Behold the trailer for said solo-album above. We note that Yow is wearing an inside out label t-shirt in this video. […]
Lou Barlow is my Boyfriend
As a youngster, I was introduced to Lou Barlow’s catalog in a backwards way… I didn’t start with Dinosaur or early Sebadoh. My introduction to Lou was the Folk Implosion – specifically their bedroom pop masterpiece “Take A Look Inside”. And from there I expanded in all directions. I remember being shocked as a […]
Testimonium Songs by Joan of Arc
Testimonium Songs is a riff on Charles Reznikoff’s amazing concept art/text thing from the early twentieth century: Testimony. The book version of Testimony takes quotations from court transcripts of murders, domestic abuse, workplace injuries & amputations and it transmutes them into these wrenching fragments of poetry. For example: It’s pretty rough stuff, a lot of it. […]
Spring 2013 Cassette Sampler
Some of you may remember that in 2012 we released limited edition cassette samplers for each season of the year. Well, we’re a little late, but we are in fact doing this again this year. And we’re happy to announce that the Spring 2013 Sampler is now available! The cassette sampler is limited to 500 […]
SON LUX SIGNS
We are honored and delighted as we welcome Son Lux to Joyful Noise! If you haven’t bought a copy of his new, conceptual 7″ yet, you might want to get on it. (They’re selling like hotcakes and we only had 300 of them to begin with, we may not have any left this time tomorrow.) […]