Strange weather, wasn't it for !!!'s free show down at the Williamsburg Waterfront on Sunday. Photographer Chris Person braved the ominous skies, intermittent rain, and the free rum lines at the VIP…   Read Story »

Hear the six-minute, warping dance vamps of "The Most Certain Sure" at Soundcloud, from their Strange Weather, Isn't It LP out 8/24 via Warp. This single, which follows up "AM/FM," is out 8/16, b/w a…   Read Story »

!!!'s slithery first single "AM/FM" now has a video. The bright backgrounds may remind you of Neneh Cherry's "Buffalo Stance" video, which is never a bad thing. The clip was directed by Black Dice…   Read Story »

!!! feel like survivors from a Brooklyn scene that's been paved over by newer micro-genres and shorter attention spans. Who needs a song about Giuliani now? (Rhetorical.) But funk keeps you young and…   Read Story »

NAME: !!! PROGRESS REPORT: Recording the last guitar and keyboard tracks for their fourth, still-untitled LP, recorded at "The basement of the club Festaal Kreuzberg in Berlin, The Hangar in…   Read Story »

By Amrit Singh & Brandon Stosuy After a night of "classic" recreations, it was nice to dive into the current state of the indie landscape. Yesterday's lineup was stacked, and we spent the day…   Read Story »

Word broke after Lolla last year that John Pugh was permanently breaking ranks from dance-punkers !!! to focus on another act. And you didn't think an ex-!!!er would turn himself over to…   Read Story »

We saw a lot of concerts this year! You probably did too, if you're the sort to be checking music blogs on your downtime over holiday break, so let's all trade notes. Stereogum's Amrit Singh kicks…   Read Story »

Radiohead.tv brought us heads in boxes, Björk and Smiths covers, a live "Reckoner," and that surreal have-we-all-gone-deaf performance, among sundry other goodies ... like those DJ sets. When we…   Read Story »

John Pugh is dead to Chk Chk Chk. How dead? Here, he's singing roadkill. As confirmed by Nic Offer at Lolla, dance-punk octet !!! had been pared to a lean and mean dance-punk septet when other lanky…   Read Story »