Teleskopes (not to be confused with UK shoegaze pioneers, The Telescopes) are an L.A. based trio comprised of Fox Fagan (bass, vocals), Pelle Hillstrom (guitar), and Jesper Kristensen (drums).

The band has an upcoming full length in the works, from which they have shared a vigorous, fuzzed, psych track of space rock dynamism and shoegaze-y excellence, which sounds like it has dropped straight from the early nineties, conveying vibes of alternative rock's most fruitful era.

Listen below and be alert for what's coming next by this fine band...




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Copenhagen's fiery hardcore trio, Halshug, have a new, sophomore full length record about to be released. The album is titled Sort Sind (translates to "black mind") and it's inspired by the members' ordeals growing up in the decayed parts of their home, Denmark.

Vold (in English - "violence") is a raw, brutal punk track that sounds as violent as its title and the theme that it's based on, which according to the band's members is psychic terror...

Sort Sind follows Halshug's debut, Blodets Bånd, and it will be released on September 30th via Southern Lord.





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Emma Ruth Rundle, who is just a few days away from releasing her excellent new album, Marked For Death on Sargent House, has just unveiled a beautiful, somber music video for the album's closing track, Real Big Sky.

Directed and photographed by Brandon Kapelow, the video's dark and dusky colours are a perfect match for the song's - and the rest of the album's - mood, set around the negativity of feelings like loss, defeat, heartache and self-destructiveness.

Watch below...





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Shared with his fans on his 83rd birthday, You Want It Darker, is the new single by beloved veteran, Leonard Cohen, and it is the title track of his new album which is set to be released on October 21st.

The track is on the same vein with the dark, dreamy sound of 2014's Popular Problems and it's nothing less than what we should expect from the man, who despite his age, continues to deliver.

Happy birthday, Leonard Cohen...





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The many-sided, tough to categorize, highly energetic punk rock of San Francisco's Culture Abuse has now been released in the form of a viral debut album, Peach, on 6131 Records.

Think of punk rock, hardcore, catchy pop hooks, grunge-y loud guitars and impudent children running around making a mess and you might get a glimpse of an idea about what Culture Abuse's sound is like or you can play the song below, turn it up and figure it out yourself.




Culture Abuse have been recently on a US tour with Citizen and Nothing and they're about to hit the road again with Touché Amoré, Tiny Moving Parts, And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, Creepoid and others.




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Since their ten-year old debut, Sahg I, Norway's Sahg have been one of the most impressive renditions of the quite overused Sabbath-esque/doom/stoner part of the metal world. With their members being involved into other, aesthetically different bands in the Norwegian metal scene, like Gorgoroth and Audrey Horne, and after four full length albums, Sahg seem to have taken in the experience and have been using it in their favour, to create a well-produced, mature, heavy rocking album, Memento Mori which comes out September 23rd on Indie Recordings.

Coming three years after Delusions Of Grandeur, the new album features a significant lineup change for the band, since two out of four members, Thomas Lønnheim and founding member Thomas Tofthagen have been replaced by guitarist Ole Walaunet (Grimfist) and drummer Mads Lilletvedt (Solstorm, Byfrost), both coming from the more extreme end metal.

Black Unicorn, one of the album's standout tracks, is the first single off Memento Mori and it comes with a great looking video, directed by Benjamin Langeland, which takes place in a sort of a medieval horror universe, aptly showcasing Sahg's tendencies towards the darkness and the album's overall theme, death, heavily influenced by the band's grieving process after the recent losses of rock icons such as Lemmy and Bowie.





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Mitch Hedberg may have signed off this cruel world way too early, but the talented comedian left behind him a series of great comedy albums, all three of which are now being released through Comedy Central Records on vinyl, together with unreleased recordings, bonus video and a book by his widow, comedian Lynn Shawcroft.

The 4xLP boxset includes all three of Hedberg's original albums, Strategic Grill Locations, Mitch All Together and the posthumous album, Do You Believe In Gosh? It is being released on November 4th.




Here is Mitch Hedberg on an appearance on The Late Show With David Letterman (guest-hosted by Elvis Costello) back from 2003.



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Last season of Documentary Now! went out with a double episode about a fictional soft rock band, Blue Jean Committee, wonderfully spoofing The History Of The Eagles. On the new season which began September 14th, Fred Armisen and Bill Hader will have their hands on another popular music genre and mock one of the most iconic music documentaries ever, Talking Heads' Stop Making Sense.

The episode will be called Final Transmission and it will be episode number four in the new season, scheduled to air on October 5th, however, Test Pattern, the fictional new wave band about which the film will be about, showed up at Late Night With Seth Meyers (whose host is also a co-creator of Documentary Now!) to perform their song, Art + Student = Poor.

Watch the performance below...




Once again the show's creators show some unconditional love and outright support about pop culture and good music in general by making fun of it exquisitely and by being knowledgeable and appreciative of their material. If you haven't seen season one of Documentary Now!, you're missing one of the best things that have happened to television in the last few years.


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As far as rock documentaries go, it's hard to imagine a better pairing than Jim Jarmusch and The Stooges. Gimme Danger, the film that chronicles the heritage of Iggy Pop and The Stooges previously premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, it premieres in New York on October 28 and in L.A. on November 4th.

It may be that Kim Gordon has had a long and remarkable 35-year career with Sonic Youth and projects like Body/Head, she had never released anything under her own name though, until now.

The single Murdered Out is Kim's first solo release ever, produced by Justin Raisen and featuring Warpaint's Stella Mozgawa behind the drums. More solo material from Kim Gordon is expected to come soon.



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Synthwave villain extraordinaire, Volkor X, whose album we loved earlier in the year and with whom we've had the pleasure to conduct a very interesting interview, has unveiled an official music video for his album's excellent title track.

The video for This Means War - Act 1 earns a place straight among the best the genre has ever seen, since it's appropriately done entirely in two-dimensional retro computer art, directed and animated by Gyhyom, telling an engaging story about a bounty hunter who is out there to get Volkor X and looking like the coolest video game that has never went into production.

The video is available exclusively via LuigiDonatello's Youtube channel.





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On this date 15 years ago 9/11 happened. Seinfeld had already been over for three years, but that didn't stop comedian Billy Domineau to write a script for a complete episode set on the aftermath of the 9/11 catastrophe, which last month he was kind enough to share with the rest of us through Google Drive.

The episode's title would have been The Twin Towers and it is one of the funniest and darkest things you could ever read related to a sitcom. It fools around with all of the four characters' typical characteristics, their weaknesses and everything about them that made them funny and interesting in the first place, while they go about their everyday lives right after the historical, tragic event.

Jerry hates the dust that settled over the city and now it's on his sandwich, George is mistaken for a hero that saved many people on the day of the attacks, Elaine has a boyfriend whom she wanted to dump and he didn't die that day after all, and Kramer discovers that he accidentally initiated the tragedy while trying to get his box-cutters - which by the way were used in the attack - replaced by the government. Newman, the Costanzas, Uncle Leo, Jackie Chiles, Mr. Wilhelm, and George Steinbrenner all show up as well. It's classic Seinfeld from start to finish...




Billy Domineau is a freelance contributor on SNL's Weekend Update and he used to write for the Onion News Network. On an interview with The Comic's Comic he explained how this idea came to fruition: "I was helping someone write a sketch a few months back and told them theirs needed to be an exercise in bad taste. Like imagine if there was a 9/11 episode of Seinfeld… wait a minute."


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