Drummer extraordinaire Zach Hill (Hella, El Grupo Nuevo de Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, Marnie Stern etc) has announced an autumn 2010 release for his second solo album, Face Tat.
The 13-track disc features a typically wide range of contributors, including Devendra Banhart, No Age, Guillermo Scott Herren (Prefuse 73), Greg Saunier (Deerhoof), Carson McWhirter (Hella), Nick Reinhart (Tera Melos, Bygones) and Robby Moncrieff.
“This record was titled prior to any of its music being made, based on an article I had read about people with facial tattoos potentially having a higher suicide rate than …

One of this withering orb’s most unceasingly brutal bands, Glasgow’s Black Sun have (in one form or another) been hurling around boot-to-skull riffs, imploding beats and sadistic noise for over a decade.
Russell McEwan, drummer, vocalist and solar core, knows his way around extremes of experience. He’s been at this game a while, as a former member of noise-rockers Macrocosmica and industrial experimentalists Test Dept, a sometime cohort of flesh-ripping body artist Ron Athey, and current pansexual high priest(ess) for conceptual noise duo Atomized.
While recording their sixth album, Twilight Of The …

A further round of live acts has been announced for this year’s Rock-A-Rolla-sponsored Supersonic festival, including Hallogallo 2010 and Napalm Death.
Supergroup Hallogallo 2010 features band members Michael Rother (NEU!), Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth), Benjamin Curtis (School Of Seven Bells), and Aaron Mullan (Tall Firs), performing the music of NEU! as well as a selection of tracks from Rother’s other projects.
“I’m thrilled to return to Supersonic this year with my new live project Hallogallo 2010. We will present some favourite music by NEU!, Harmonia and from my solo albums. I look …

Experimental/noise rock legends Boredoms have announced details of their upcoming DVD, 77 Boadrum.
Filmed on location at the Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park in Brooklyn, NY, the DVD captures the infamous 77-drummer performance that took place on July 7th, 2007 at 7:07 PM, along with behind-the-scenes rehearsal and interviews. Comprising footage filmed by Jun Kawaguchi and his crew, web-TV sites like VBS TV, Viva-Radio, and videos taken from You Tube, the DVD will be released in the UK on Thrill Jockey Records on 7 September.
Boredoms recently performed a substantially trimmed-down version …

Miami sludge/stoner/pop trio Torche have completed their next album, amusingly titled Songs For Singles.
The follow-up to 2008’s Meanderthal is expected  September 21 via Hydra Head.

Track list:  1. U.F.O.  2. Lay Low  3. Hideaway  4. Arrowhead  5. Shine On My Old Ways  6. Cast Into Unknown  7. Face The Wall  8. Out Again
Photo: Lauren Roero