+Live Skull: quintessential pioneering New York noise band

+Arklight: is an experimental rock band from Astoria, Queens. Playing together in various incarnations since high school, they have been performing around NYC for over a decade. Punk energy, haunting atmospherics, and metallic noise incursions perched atop a throbbing, tribal rhythmic base.

+Clone: captures the nascent verve of Warsaw especially in the icy timbre of the slashing guitar figures. Liziragga’s eminently melodic, racing basslines, which are reminiscent of Peter Hook’s and locks in effortlessly with Giuffre’s metronomic, economical drumming. Galleon’s vocals exhibit a range he never showed in Dead Leaf Echo, and they’re clearer than ever, as he urges with an unrepentant rage, “Tell me a story about how you’ll bore me.”