This dude PILLOWCASE from England apparently recorded this noisy little ditty in his bedroom the other morning. If so – good stuff broski. I’m feeling it. Cool how it changes like halfway through.

So No Joy have a new EP on the horizon epically titled Negaverse! It drops June 19th and the first track “Junior” is out on the internets.

Originally I thought No Joy were like a totally boring band (the bad kind of shoegazers that thinks the effects are more important than the melody) but I think after seeing them at last year’s NXNE I realized that they’re like so cool that they can actually get away with having barely any melodies. “Junior” doesn’t really change this, but it does sound uber cool like most of their other stuff, just by like sheer virtue of stylishness. Better even. Maybe I’m just a sucker for those noisy guitars and sheened-over female vocals.

I think the EP will probably be like a refinement of what we heard on the album. More pedals. Mores style. Whatever. I’ll download it and listen to it while running on the ellipticals.

The Hiya Dunes are a cool retro-esque garage-ish band from New York that doesn’t sound tooo derivative (unlike a bajillion other bands) and are really deece…most of the time. Not a huge fan of the ‘spooky-sounding’ bits on their album, I’ll admit. But otherwise they sound pretty good. Heard them on another great mix I found on Portals (perhaps they should maybe give me a hook-up or something since I’m pumping them so much, eh?).

Apparently these guys Modern Rivals are friends with New Yorkers Caveman. Stuff sounds great – it’s that kind of exciting, almost  tropicalia-esque brand of samplegaze, similar to like Animal Collective circa-five years ago minus Portner’s yelps and stuff…and yeah, bit more tropicalia-esque…I know I already said that…

This dude Alan Watts from Brooklyn makes weird sounds but I like it.

Selda – Yaylalar

Selda – Dam Ustune Cul Serer

So, interviews are a pain in the ass to transcribe. Because I don’t do them very often, the feature section doesn’t get updated much, so now I’ll be posting about obscure bands and artists from time to time with this new feature called Obscurity Points, as in you get points for knowing obscure stuff. That’s the idea behind the title. Anyways…

This week I was listening to Young Magic‘s awesome mixtape that Portals posted in the Silk Screens post they did with him. One track stood out big time and I found out it was a song called “Yaylalar” by a Turkish artist from the 70′s called Selda.

According to AllMusic.com, Selda was just a Turkish chick that liked to play guitar and sing until some singles she recorded sold close to a million copies. Then she made some albums that got a lot of attention, was imprisoned by the Turkish government in the 80′s for singing some political stuff they weren’t too pleased about, was released, and made some more albums.

Listening to her, it’s easy to see why she captivated Turkish listeners and hardcore record collectors alike: she’s pretty damn good. Her guitar work is great – fuzzy spirited stuff that sounds a lot like what 60′s psychedelic guitarists were doing in their time, but what’s really interesting is the use of synthesizers that sometimes sound kind of like Arabic/Indian flutes or something. And whoever’s playing bass is also doing a pretty solid job holding stuff, down, at least on her ’76 eponymous debut, which is, so far, the only album of hers I’ve heard. As a vocalist also she’s pretty solid.

She’s released some music in the last decade, but apparently it wasn’t that great. Not unusual. Anyways, there you go, your obscurity points just went up big time. You’re welcome.

Vancouver based ‘sludge-pop’ artist Weed just released the new Gun Control EP and it totally rocks yo. (via Weird Canada)

“liiiisten toooo my allllbuuuuum…it’s nooot like iiit willll braiiinwaasshhh yoou ooorr somethiiiinnnng…”

Japanese electro-chillers LLLL have a cool little EP out on their bandcamp. It’s legit.

Tennessee bedroom dreampop artist Nomadic Firs unleashes his full-length upon an unsuspecting world. Some very solid stuff here. Especially the dream-reggae of “Cover Bombs”. That one’s especially good.