All sound is more or less “noise” until conventions congeal to classify it as “music,” but according to Marc Masters’ “The Decade in Noise”, dozens of bands used the Oughts to reintroduce dissonance and volume to rock and punk audiences. In the process new hybrids were created, more wild polarities explored, and, like so [...]

My first trip to the festival, and to Austin, got off to a good start yesterday. I’m keeping a daily blog over at Indyweek, the music blog connected to a North Carolina alt-weekly edited by my friend and fellow Pitchforker Grayson Currin. Also blogging: famous Pitchfork celebrities Marc Masters, Jason Crock and Paul [...]