It's not every month that Juiceboxxx tours the east coast (with his girl-bud MNDR, no less), and New York got to guzzle two sweat-soaked evenings with the Milwaukee party rapper this week, both of which we made sure to catch. Night one brought him into the Ninjasonik fold (right after a raccoon skull-crushing set by Shams). Night two, dance party with Javelin. If you're wondering, yes, it was hot.

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With a name like Truman Peyote, you better be seeing dragons in the kitchen.

Glitch-thrash, anyone? For "Steelstack", the B-side of an upcoming 7" called New Wife, New Life, Truman Peyote enters the synth factory through the dirty back entrance, only to light a match, shove a suitcase of dynamite under the thing and run the hell away. There's feedback and broken chunks of melody singed and flying in every direction, meaning wherever you're standing, you're gonna get hit in the ...]]> November 20, 2009 http://www.imposemagazine.com/bytes/truman-peyotes-steelstack Jeremy Krinsley http://www.imposemagazine.com/bytes/railcars-gets-remixed

California's Railcars came through with an exclusive NO/FI remix of the title track from his debut Cathedral With No Eyes.

It's a Friday night freakout this week. Despite moving to L.A., Railcar's debut is a weirdo marriage of two San Francisco scenes: the lo-fi rockers and the glamorous dance DJs. The original title track is monstrous in distorted riffage and esoteric chants. It's a mess of feedback held together with electron...]]> November 20, 2009 http://www.imposemagazine.com/bytes/railcars-gets-remixed Blake Gillespie http://www.imposemagazine.com/bytes/treetops-abelar-scout-evan-miller-taterbug

The split cassette is a tradition as old as the split LP (citation needed).  Young Tapes ups the ante with an impeccably packaged double split full of cozy jams.

It starts with Treetops, the experimental solo project of Arbor label's Mike Pollard prior to his experiments with Pale Blue Sky. Here, he ushers in the affair with gooey, barely-there ambient minimalism slowly trampled over by increasingly high tempo synth chirps. 

On the B-side is Abelar Scout, another side pr...]]> November 20, 2009 http://www.imposemagazine.com/bytes/treetops-abelar-scout-evan-miller-taterbug Gregory McGreevy http://www.imposemagazine.com/reviews/oh-glory-oh-wilderness--holopaw

If you’ve heard Holopaw, at all, you know that they have shown off some solid musical promise right from their earliest recordings, with moments of near-brilliance. But nothing prepares the listener for the out and out, full blown, cosmic greatness of this exceptional record.

Songwriters John Orth and Jeff Hays, who have represented the crux of the band from the beginning, have matured beyond even what was previously imaginable, and they’ve given us a complex rock album that is ful...]]> November 20, 2009 http://www.imposemagazine.com/reviews/oh-glory-oh-wilderness--holopaw Anthony Mark Happel http://www.imposemagazine.com/features/patrick-gildersleeves-interview

With work featured in group and solo exhibitions from London to Barcelona to Hong Kong, as well as in Faesthetic and Anorak Magazines, this relatively young artist is determined to avoid stepping in poo in hometown Brighton, to take some "adventures" away from his pharmacy day job, and perhaps to add more blood to that next drawing. Visit his website, Wowoutrageous...

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The Sheen Bros have dropped another greasy-spoon mix of polyester collar popping funk.

The Rub's Cosmo Baker and Toronto producer/MC 4th Pyramid came up with the concept of a duo of slicked-out sleazesters tuned into the greasy funk and drippy disco sounds that make girls lose control and guys feel like macks. Thus The Sheen Bros.

They just dropped their second Scumbag Funk mix and posted it ...]]> November 19, 2009 http://www.imposemagazine.com/bytes/scumbag-funk-vol-2 Derek Evers http://www.imposemagazine.com/photos/fighting-polygon-team

Fighting Polygon Team, a dancy pop punk band who play songs about all my favorite topics (mostly zombies and Myspace) and Black Norse, a drum and guitar duo from New Hampshire that might be described within the endless maze of subgenres as stoner black metal both played a sick show at the Bat Barn along with Nathan Carpenter, The Old Man & His Po'Buckra, and Darren Deicide.

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I understand what These United States are trying to say.

"Ignore the fact that we sound like the little bro's of Pete Yorn, like us because we have this ironic video where we play off this 90's revival thing."

These Unites States, "The Important Thing"