WASTOIDS Archive

Spin two chime-and-jangle charmers from Vancouver guitar pop trio Tough Age, who wed Flying Nun-style sparkle to the indie rock foundations of Guided By Voices and The Fall. Read more.

Vic Berger of Office Hours Live drops a killer mixtape of psychedelia, sunshine pop, rock, Tropicália, jazz, and funk on WASTOIDS. It plays like a broadcast from an alternate dimension, press play and let it roll. Read more.

Decoy Deloy brings word of Travis Barker and Liquid Death's new Enema of the State enema kit, new tunes from Chicago hardcore crew Buggin, RIP Mark Stewart (The Pop Group), Buck Gooter's mixtape, and goods from the Weekly World News. Read more.

Join Sam Means (The Format) and Jason P. Woodbury (Aquarium Drunkard) from the 850 W Lincoln loft, where they offer a deep dive on recording engineer, writer, musician & viral star Ethan Winer's 2007 viral magnum opus Tele-vision and get an early start on the summer with vape entrepreneur and rockstar Mungo Jerry. Read more.

What's the trick to running a successful record production? John Vanderslice answers that and more calls from the 1-877-WASTOIDS Hotline. Read more.

The music of Hataałii spans indie rock, new wave, folk, ambient, bossa nova, and low-slung country-tinged boogies. Fans of Alex G, Bill Callahan, Car Seat Headrest, and Mac Demarco should take note, but this DIY artist, musician, and filmmaker is his own creation entirely. Read more.

For this installment of Mixtape, Buck Gooter has crafted a playlist of jams he'd rock with his late partner Terry Turtle on the road. "Some selections I remember eliciting a 'that's cool' or a nod-along from Turtle, but others would call for a full on sing along by the crammed denizens of the tourmobile. Read more.

This week on WASTOIDS Music News: new music from Rancid and Rose City Band, drum legend Dave Lombardo (Misfits, Slayer, Mr. Bungle) embraces Rites of Percussion, Mystic 100's take your questions on the 1-877-WASTOIDS hotline, Water From Your Eyes vs Neil Young, and new Russian Circles vinyl from Hello Merch. Read more.

The notorious No Wave band Red Transistor didn't actually release anything in their short existence—but their posthumous single "Not Bite" / "We're Not Crazy," recorded in 1977 but released by Thurston Moore's Ecstatic Peace label in 1990. The single showcases how ahead of their time this chaotic noise punk band was, both in the cutting riffs, repetition, and rants of Rudolph Grey and Von Lmo and their legendarily destructive shows in which little on stage survived. Read more.

Call 1-877-WASTOIDS with your questions for Mystic 100's. In a previous life, this crew of Washington Staters were known as Milk Music. But with their new album, On a Macro Diet, they are reborn—drifting into a zone that imagines the Dead as a punk band or Miles Davis sitting with the hardcore era Meat Puppets. Listen for answers on an upcoming episode of Hotline. Read more.