noise

Image from Destroy All Monsters achive, courtesy of [ Space ] Curated by James Hoff and Cary Loren, Hungry for Death showcases the archives of Destroy All Monsters, an artists’ collective that was formed at a house party in 1973. Labelled “the world’s first noise …

Image by Amanda Farah. Brooklyn’s A Place To Bury Strangers have developed quite a bit of notoriety for the volume of their shows, which they happily hint at it themselves. Their new album is aptly titled Exploding Head. Their effects are created by frontman Oliver …

Actually, that’s an exaggeration. No actual terror has been reported. But a group of pensioners who congregate on the benches in the middle of the Horning Close Estate in Mottingham have been issued a warning by the local housing association – keep the racket down, or …

Anyone who’s read the liner notes of a Stone Roses album will know that their former guitarist is also a painter. While John Squire’s work during his tenure in the Roses had a heavy Pollock influence, the artist has moved away from paint splashes and …

First formed in 2006 to play a few small gigs in Israel, Gravetemple was never a Stephen O’Malley project we expected to see live. When we learned that they were to play this year at Birmingham’s Supersonic Festival, we immediately began looking into coach tickets, …

What if god was one of us… Grow up. A letter written by Einstein, dismissing the idea of god and the bible as “pretty childish” has sold for $400,000 at a Bloomsbury auction. We are living in a material world… and Posh and Paris are …

On Saturday 19 April, three of Londonist’s bravest aural explorers arrived at ULU to undergo some serious sonic punishment in the form of Satori, Sutcliffe Jugend and the unmistakeable king of Japanese noise, Merzbow. For fun, naturally; people are strange, as Jim Morrison once said. …