Insound Staff Pick - 2008! New York City's Le Tigre's collaboration is a deliriously addictive, hybrid sound the band calls "feminist punk electronic music." It's a mix of drum-machine samples, synth hooks, buzzing guitar loops, gang vocals, and foolproof bass-lines. Le Tigre's roots go all the way back to a Bikini Kill show in Portland, Oregon: Johanna, in the audience, was impressed and intrigued, and approached Kathleen to give her a copy of her feminist art zine, Snarla. The two became fast friends, an...   [ read more ]

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This Mute Records reissue of the shocking debut album from NYC-based LIARS combines raucous dance, hip-hop, and punk beats for high-energy heart-and-soul fire-eating that, somehow, morphs into song. Pat Noecker, bassist for the defunct group Opium Taylor, and Ron Albertson, former drummer of Mercy Rule, seduce the rhythms like veins looking for blood. Their body-shaking beats are purged through the jagged and sordid melodies of Aaron Hemphill on guitar, who screamed his way through LA punk formations Phil'...   [ read more ]

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The First Definitive Overview of the dawn of PUNK. Skip the safety pins and plunge into this! Four CDs gather 100 songs from a wide-ranging cast of characters. It's got proto-punks like the New York Dolls and Iggy Pop; key figures like the Ramones, X, The Buzzcocks, Joy Division, Television, Wire, Gang of Four, New York Dolls and The Clash; as well as artists like Talking Heads and Blondie, who quickly outgrew the punk label. A thoroughly researched 116-page booklet includes liners, rare photos, track-by-...   [ read more ]

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