September 28, 2012 – Fresh off Korn's surprising-but-totally-understandable new dubstep direction that earned them a spot in our Top 20 Metal Albums of 2011, frontman Jonathan Davis has started digging deeper into EDM's sputtering, robo-fucked Matrix of mayhem.He's got a new band called Killbot: an EDM "collective" featuring Sluggo, Tyler Blue and JDevil (which is Davis' on his DJ Peretz steez). Their debut album, Sound Surgery will be due on October 22 via the dance music bleeding-edgers Dim Mak, but SPIN has the first taste, called — wait for it — "I'll Fuck It." If you dug Korn's Path of Totality and its no-bullshit mix of piston-popping wubbery and mosh-ready riffs, than this should be your jam of jams.

September 24, 2012 – In its fifth year on America's East Coast, the 2012 All Tomorrow's Parties festival was the first to be docked in Manhattan, as the organizers dialed back from far-flung lost weekends in the Catskills and Asbury Park. Having built a 12-year reputation as the ultimate in cozy, intimate, music-nerd getaways, slow ticket sales ultimately prompted a move closer to the subway station (in this case, a pier between the Manhattan and Williamsburg Bridges) and it was ultimately just a little bit closer to what we know music festivals to be — comedian Kurt Braunohler even jokingly called it "All Tomorrow's Parking Lots" over the hum of traffic on the FDR. Could a pared down, more traditional, Porta Potty-utilizing ATP still maintain its appeal?For many that question would never be answered because, despite adding the hotter-than-anything Frank Ocean as a headliner, attendance was noticably thin.

September 20, 2012 – Sound-sculpture savants and ambient-rock cult faves Fontanelle are returning after an 10-year hiatus with a record for doom metal stalwart Southern Lord. The last we heard from 'em, they released three records on Kranky in the early aughts and dissolved, members splintering off into experimental projects like Strategy and Nudge or, in the case of ex-Jessamine guitarist Rex Ritter, adding Moog flourishes to SunnO))) records. New LP Vitamin F, due October 23, reunites the crew for a slice of dark, ambient dubjazz that walks a perfectly absinthe-saturated line between the freak-funk of Miles Davis's On the Corner and the expressionist doom of Bohren and Der Club of Gore. Featuring members of Eagle Twin, Earth, and Jackie O Motherfucker, it may be the most metal record to feature no actual metal on it whatsoever.

September 20, 2012 – New York's most luxurious, most crewed-up, most beloved modern disco ensemble Escort are following up their SPIN Essential'd debut with an all-star remix album. Escort Remixes, due October 16, features revisions by Ewan Pearson, Sub Swara, Greg Wilson, and the band themselves. You can hear the first taste below, courtesy of RAC, where the band's lush trad-disco are fast-forwarded about six years into a dreamy, steamy mix of sexy Italo disco and Drive soundtrack thrillwave. Get down tonight.Track list: 1. "Starlight" (RAC Remix) 2. "Cocaine Blues" (Greg Wilson Remix) 3. "Why Oh Why" (Pound Sterling Remix) 4. "Caméleon Chameleon" (Club Remix) 5. "Forever" (Escort Remix Instrumental) 6. "Makeover" (JKriv Remix) 7. "All Through The Night" (Sub Swara Remix) 8. "Starlight" (Max Essa Remix) 9. "Caméleon Chameleon" (Black Russian Remix) 10. "Cocaine Blues" (Ewan Pearson Remix)11.

September 20, 2012 – The most important Brooklyn show on TV isn't Girls — it's 2 Broke Girls. Starring Norah's infinite playlist of cupcake jokes and thrift-store field trips, the CBS sitcom offers up intentionally imprecise references that combine to form the tipping point where Brooklyn hipster culture turns into prime-time background noise. Despite the wild success and influence of Brooklyn-sewn youth culture over the past decade-plus, it was never clumsily co-opted and sold back like thuggish-ruggish rapping McNuggets in the '80s or Daniel Clowes approximating Sub Pop graphics for OK soda in the '90s. Maybe that's because the Brooklyn indie scene was born branding itself.

September 18, 2012 – The third album from Massachusetts post-rock cosmonauts Caspian is a gorgeous 57-minute float through ghost choirs, Earth-ly desert ambles, guitars beamed from the Envy school of decimation, and, of course, builds, builds, builds. It's been a hot minute since we went completly gaga over a post-rock album — was Wavering Radiant? really three years ago? — and Waking Season hits that majestic, hypnotic sweet spot, making room for Tim Hecker-fried drones, Joshua Tree-era U2 atmosphere and voices skipping like they were controlled by DJ Rashad or the Books. It's due out next week on Triple Crown Records, and they'll be blowing Minus the Bear off stage for the rest of September, but you can get lost in Waking Season right now.

September 17, 2012 – Cheery sludge-pop duo Tweak Bird is the second hardest working band in show business. The first is obviously the Melvins who have been dutifully blogging their adventures for us as they attempt to break a world record, playing 51 shows in 51 states in 51 days. But their pals in Tweak Bird are following them for 45 dates, so a silver medal ain't too shabby! Their new EP, Undercover Crops is coming via optimism-metal staple Volcom, and SPIN has the very first taste of a band so sunny that they thank "pizza" in the liner notes. New track "People," mixes a Big Business bazooka blast, some classic Southern rock choogle, and some daisy-sniffing Meat Puppets harmonies. They sing "Can you feel my sunshine?" and the answer is pretty obvious. Hear it below!

September 13, 2012 – South Florida is the reigning home of poptimist-metal royalty, and creeping up from behind those palm trees in Winter Haven comes House of Lightning. The band is the ecstasy-sludge project from guitarist/vocalist Henry Wilson (drummer for Steve Brooks' pre-Torche hook-monsters Floor; and frontman for equally monstrous band Dove) alongside fellow Dovester John Ostberg. It's got all the muck-pop celebration rock of vintage Floor or Torche, but with the fireworkin' beach blanket bombast of Van Halen harmonies, Jesu feeback blurts, and the occasional double-kick flurry crashing the party. Their debut album Lightworker is due sometime this year, and they've got some tour dates with Big Business coming up.

September 12, 2012 – Scratchmaster general Kid Koala has returned from throwing multi-disciplinary science fairs across the country and drawing 132-page graphic novels to doing something a little more, well, rootsy. His upcoming fourth album, 12 Bit Blues is the turntablist version of going acoustic, recorded almost entirely on the hottest technology 1987 could buy: the E-mu SP-1200 sampler! The results are beautifully broken, the Kid furiously tapping pads and maxing out all luxurious 10 seconds of sample time before adding his trademark scratching — still some of the most virtuosic and expressionistic in the game. It's monstrously funky — fresh for '88 or your fresh 78s — the Kid tearing up vintage blues vocal samples into be-bop-inflected shards, atmospheric wiggles, or head-knocking cut'n'paste grooves.

September 10, 2012 – Don't let Death Grips hog the news day! Hella's wheedlier half is working hard in his band, Solos, whose debut album Beast of Both Worlds is out tomorrow via Joyful Noise. When we premiered it's first track, "Carpe Diem," back in July , we said it was "the folk-metal-gone-Stravinsky twurk of the new Dirty Projectors combined with the laser-fueled tech-pop of post-Hella popsters like Yeasayer, Tame Impala or Mae Shi." Well, the 48-minute whole is so, so much more: It makes room for Styx-ian harmonies ("All My Tribulations"), Anticon-style wistful-hop ("Damsel Distressed"), and funkadfied Mars Volta-lite ("Schooled Fools"), and a full cover of Michael Jackson's incendiary 1996 single "They Don't Care About Us" (don't worry, they do the edited version without the racial slurs). Hear the whole monster below!