For New York noise artist Margaret Chardiet, aka Pharmakon, the body is a wet, alien thing that hangs on the self like meat on a butcher’s hook. Her defining album, 2014’s Bestial Burden (Sacred Bones), chronicles a serious illness and hospitalization. It opens with the multitracked sound of her desperate breathing, in a claustrophobic symphony […]
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Hogg drop a new LP of tense, ritualistic throb ’n’ roll
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America’s bad-vibe underground takes over Metro for a night with sets by Wolf Eyes, Pharmakon, and Aaron Dilloway
This bum-out extravaganza organized by Nate Young of Wolf Eyes suggests that if you stay focused within the underground long enough there’s a good chance you’ll ascend—at least enough to headline Metro. The Trip Metal Fest features a crew of like-minded outsiders who’ve achieved a modicum of success without doing anything to curry favors; the […]
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Drake’s diaspora, Discogs drama, DJ ‘controllerism,’ and more of the week’s best music writing
Plus: pieces about the queer experience in contemporary dance and the intimacy of abrasive noise
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Pharmakon releases her primal scream on ‘Body Betrays Itself’
Today’s 12 O’Clock Track is Pharmakon’s “Body Betrays Itself,” from the upcoming full-length Bestial Burden.
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The Reader’s guide to Pitchfork afterparties
Pitchfork afterparties: There’s no Bitchpork this year, but there is Rotted Tooth, plus plenty more.
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7/13 — Human Quena Orchestra at the Empty Bottle
The San Francisco doom duo plays the Empty Bottle’s free night with Anatomy of Habit and Pharmakon; Locrian headlines.