Kurt Orzeck

1 week ago | newnoisemagazine.com | Kurt Orzeck

Nowadays, more so at any other point in our lifetimes, artists have the power to decide how much they want to sell themselves to the public, and in what manner they want to do so. One of the newer phenomenons in this regard is artists taking on publicity and promotional efforts partially or entirely by themselves. The trend is facilitated by the continuing and relentless stranglehold that social media has on culture and communication across the globe.

2 weeks ago | newnoisemagazine.com | Kurt Orzeck

Rock venues have seldom hosted a more ferocious animal than Blag Dahlia, vocalist of notorious punk-rock marauders Dwarves. For the past 40 years, Blag has bellowed, bled, barfed, and butted heads on stages like an uncaged beast who few have dared attempt to restrain.

2 weeks ago | newnoisemagazine.com | Kurt Orzeck

—When New Noise caught up with Flummox frontwoman Alyson Blake Dellinger on Monday morning via video chat, she was in her comfort zone: Hanging out with her cats and wearing a cat ears headband in solidarity with them. The Nashville-area multi-instrumentalist was clearly in her happy place, but her smile was set to grow even bigger come Friday, with the release of the latest album by her bizarro heavy-rock/psych/funk/jam band, Southern Progress.

2 weeks ago | treblezine.com | Kurt Orzeck

One year, one month and three days after Nirvana released In Utero, the breakthrough album that served as as a truce of sorts in the decades-long war between independent and major labels, the engineer behind the 1993 LP—Steve Albini—helped deliver one of the most seismic anti-corporate records in the annals of underground music.

2 weeks ago | newnoisemagazine.com | Kurt Orzeck

—In the Woods… may have an ellipsis after their name, but the three words that precede it evoke all that’s needed to describe the long-running avant-garde/ black-metal troupe from Kristiansand, Norway: spookiness, fear, dread. Friday sees the release of their bracing new record, Otra, which translates to “other” in Spanish. It marks the band’s seventh full-length and first for Prophecy Productions, a label that’s growing in prestige with each passing year.