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Offonoff is my favorite Nilssen-Love noise rock project, especially Clash.

Come - Eleven: Eleven (the pinnacle of 90s guitar-driven indie rock imo.)
Fushitsusha - Hisou (Pathétique) (first release of theirs I heard, so it'll always be my favorite. i had never heard guitar played like that before.)

the silencers album is one of my favorites this year

i'd like to buy the digital of the emo albino but i don't really want to get it from iTunes.

^ yeah, that lambkin is lovely Man, I just actually listened to that Ferraro album and that is positively horrible. As for the Wire being underground or mainstream, yeah that has everything to do with geography. It's not at all surprising that it's sold at train stations in Berlin, but I live in a s...

It's not that ludicrous a statement. A lot of it boils down to one's conceptions of the mainstream, or how one's using that term. I would never in my wildest dreams label a band like Mercury Rev that, but that's because for me someone like Lady Gaga is an artist most people are familiar with. And, ...

*notable 2001 releases they ignored But everything you list is stuff from the "eai" end of the free improv spectrum. Which means basically that the criticism on this thread boils down to The Wire not being something like an "eai journal". No, of course it isn't. It's a slick, widely available music...