A new exhibition of work by Nick Z at The Public Trust in Dallas, TX.

Saw this on a wall in Vegas. I needed my own. Who else got one?

Boston. Kode 9 with Incyde and Scotch 1 tonight in our city - absolute must attend performance.

My friends Josh and Zack of OPEN Bicycle are finally throwing their much deserved grand opening party this weekend in Union Square, Somerville, MA. For those not following their store launch over on all the biker blogs, OPEN is a multi function bicycle repair shop, design studio, and gallery space which lives up to all these descriptor words because of Josh and Zack’s background.

What I do know is that any multifunction concept that allows for multiple consumer sets to be serviced is a good idea. In fact, anything innovative and interesting that is opened in Boston is a damn good thing.

Check them out online. They’re webstore is filled with some hard to find and unique items.

If you’re in the Boston area, be sure to stop in this weekend.

When I tell people that I became addicted to noise records this winter, I get the strangest of looks. My friends who tend to listen to a wide array of sounds and music cannot grasp my love of records that bounce - at times - non rhythmic sounds across long long compositions, which can be described as nothing more than fucking noise. 

I won’t try to describe noise records, because I simply just got into the genre. But I will point you towards some of my favorite artists working in this field today - Thuja, Eleh, Hototogisu who tend to drone out their sounds and compositions into what I almost label as ambient. On the extreme side, I tend to turn to Karlheinz, Japan’s Government Alpha, and John Wiese.

If I take anything away from noise records, its a certain renewed focus on all other music I listen to.  Noise may not be the most pleasant of genres to listen to but maybe I am looking for music/sounds that make me actually listen a little harder to get to the core.

Most noise is only available physically as vinyl releases, so I have been stocking up on the shit I love. You would be surprised how low some of these press runs are (or maybe you are not surprised).

Billy Bao’s “Fuck Separation” 10″ is not a true noise record but more of a layered non-stop guitar and percussion driven sound fuck. It’s rhythmic as hell and a brutal non-stop 20 minute assault. It’s easily the best rock record I have discovered this winter and it only took me a week to track down a hard copy via this small mail order joint in Berlin.

Billy Bao makes all their music available for free download. You will not find a harder piece of sound.

I happen to love the tonal white silkscreen on white cover of the 10″.