If you're lucky enough to catch Dirty Three in concert, you'll want to walk away with this gem.

This anti-drum n' bass, post-post-industrial product from Speedy J could be the loudest item on the noise scale this week.

This three-track/35-minute CD creeps along somewhere between stylish jazz and electronic noise.

Porn has found itself a new Pied Piper!

Rachel's gets its music spiked on this two piece extended play single. The unlikely contraband comes courtesy of San Francisco's Matmos. The Louisville-based Rachel's troupe often recruits old friends for new projects. But it seems that Rachel's merely sent tapes to Matmos' master manipulators Martin and Drew rather than convening in truly collaborative-collective fashion.

Martin Gretschmann, knobtwiddler for the Notwist and Tied & Tickled Trio part-timer, servesup a somewhat greasy yet tasty serving of '80s-lovin' retro-synthpop onhis second Console full-lengther.

Strings and acousticguitars set the opening for this charming release from the secondLouisville-based collective featured this week.

Okay, so the film's now 2 years old, but it's French and you most likely missed it anyhow.

Fat Cat in the UK bring the charming and dreamy shoe gaze o'licious Sigur Ros into more homes with the release of these two EPs.

Initially released at the Cornucopia event, this CD is basically a piece performed almost entirely at the event.

While this is a collection of some excellent songs, I'm disappointed with the presentation and execution.

This group gets betterand better and better with every album. While their last full lengther,"Seconds" was a decent release, it didn't strike me as being much morethan a good solid rock record with some nice tunes on it.

David Jackman, the manbehind Organum never refuses the opportunity to alienate any potentialfuture fans.

Chan Marshall takes some time out this round to record some of her favorite songs to cover.

After reading the descriptions of this release, I thought it might be interesting.

As morbid as it sounds,rough times usually make for the most brilliant art, whether it be thetortured artist's painting, the sick obsessive's love poems or themusician's pain and loss manifesting itself into beautiful sound.

The third album from post-rock post-kraut post-goth supergroup Mimir features members Christoph Heemann and Andreas Martin of HNAS, Edward Ka-Spel and The Silverman of Legendary Pink Dots with seminal guitarist/producer/noise artist/Spice Girls fan Jim O'Rourke.

Two brand swanking new 7" single releases are available now on vinyl from v/vm Test Recordings.

This collection of Oldhamtunes pulls a ton of stuff (16 tracks to be exact) from four trackdemos, home recordings, live stuff, peel sessions and other bits andpieces hanging around from the last seven years.

With ITN moreso than Coiland Greater Than One, I'm mildly aggrivated when I mention them tosomebody and get a response like, "oh are they still around?"