The Swans have a new album out. It's intense. Listen.

The video, not necessarily the song.

"Along with many of his contemporaries, Bangs concluded that if “authority” was not to be trusted—and clearly, it wasn’t—then whatever “authority” detested must be O.K., or probably great."

Re-formed and re-touring.

Crime & the City Solution, Six Bells Chime

Lykke Li, Get Some

Slint, Spiderland

Violent Femmes, Never Tell