September 10, 2012 – The world's most famous cartoon metal band (no, not Godsmack) is back for another round of unfiltered batshit insanity. Dethklok, the 'toons-behaving-badly crew from Adult Swim's Metalocalypse, is back with the first music video from their upcoming Dethalbum III, due October 16…and, boy, is it full of spunk! The video is called "I Ejaculate Fire" — and, uh, lets just say the truth-in-advertising people aren't exactly going to be breathing down their neck for this one. Watch this thing far, far, far, away from work.

September 6, 2012 – Swans haven't made a music video since, what, 1992? Well maybe they're gunning for a last-minute VMA nomination because they've returned to the fold with the magnum opus "No Words/No Thoughts." Their two-hour, six vinyl-sided, SPIN Essential'd opus The Seer is all about glorious bloat and spectrum-fulling transcendence, so of course this one goes big: 10 minutes long, gorgeously shot widescreen live footage, orchestral bells, dulcimers, and frontman M. Gira going absolutely ham. Watch it below!

September 5, 2012 – Two-man Providence ecstasy-punx Lightning Bolt changed all the rules when they started producing jackhammer glee-club throttlage in the mid-'90s. They turned horrible noise into body music. They turned a no-budget community of neon yarn artists and art-school Crayola scribblers into the hottest underground scene in America. They flew in the face of San Diego and Gaineville hardcore's sex/death/wrath themes in favor of cartoon monsters and wonderful rainbows. They took Black Flag's attempts at breaking the band/audience wall to hilarious extremes by never playing on a stage. They cut right to the heart of what hardcore tries to do — uplift, elevate, transport — without a single discernable lyric. Geologist: When we were getting into independent music and we moved to New York we'd be like, "Yeah, I like that Tortoise record.

September 5, 2012 – Geologist: It reminds me that going to dangerous or unsafe places is a worthwhile thing. You're really cut off from any support system. If your one life support system fails, you're pretty much going to die. And you look around and there's all these microbial things, just floating specks all around you in the water. And you're like, "This thing is so much more well-suited to survive in this environment than I am." And that's sort of loss of complacency, I feel like it's really valuable to me. If I'm nervous or self-conscious in music I sort of draw on that feeling of how inspiring it can be to overcome that fear. Back to the Centipedia glossary NEXT: The Shining

September 5, 2012 – America's oldest electronic research center, where academics like Vladimir Ussachevsky and Milton Babbitt agglomerated otherworldy goop from fucktons of primitive gear. The animated swirls and dives of Animal Collective were first sired here—Otto Luening's coiling violin and blissful synthesizer ejaculations from an essential 1961 compilation LP could have doubled as Merriweather Post Pavillion demos. Back to the Centipedia glossary NEXT: Come and See

September 5, 2012 – This 1977 Japanese cult film directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi drunkenly walks the lines between horror, comedy, live action cartoon, dream journal and unfiltered batshit insanity. In the film, seven schoolgirls visit an aunt's country home, which clearly could use a good ghostbusting — mattresses attack, pianos gnaw off fingers, and butts are bitten. Odder than a sack full of ODDSACs, this recently Criterion-memorialized flick touches on no shortage of AnCo themes — childlike wonderment, floods of blood, and experimenting with home-brewed special effects that turn the ridiculous into the sublime. Avey Tare: Big horror nerd here! I reached a point where I watched so many classic horror films I just wanted to dig deeper. I had this really dense history of horror films book, The Encyclopedia of Horror Movies. I would write lists down to go to Kim's Video.

September 5, 2012 – Since forming in 1972, this anonymous gang of California oddballs/eyeballs would foreshadow much of the AnCo aesthetic: The masks, an obsession with aggressively surrealist long form music video, running your own record label, sampling records beyond recognition, the suffocating layers of vocal tweakery, and turning homemade instruments into avant-pop insanity — especially on the Eskimo story album, which vacillates between Lynchian sound-effect record and snowblind horror-ambient cartoon. Deakin: I was so young. My dad would listen to Dylan and Hendrix and Beatles but there was this one Residents record — it wasn't the full Duck Stab record, it only has four songs on it. I remember as kid, I was 7 years old, "Put that record on, dad." Back to the Centipedia glossary NEXT: Catherine Ribeiro

September 5, 2012 – There isn't a more unlikely contemporary "dance" music than Chicago footwork, a 15-year regional style where manic jackhammer hi-hats and popcorn tom-toms phase uncomfortably against (or float miraculously above!) slow-flow house grooves and hand-punched MPC morse code. Of the genre's leading lights (which includes DJ Rashad, DJ Spinn, and DJ Roc), Traxman's 2012 debut, The Mind Of Traxman proves he is the absolute best at devouring outside influences, whether they be African mbira melodies ("Footworkin on Air"), hypnagogic pop ("Conq Dat Bitch"), or moshworthy rap-rock ("Let There Be Rockkkkk"). Panda Bear: I only listen to that record. I only heard it a week ago. That footwork stuff feels like it doesn’t really have an obvious point of reference. I think that's what's really exciting about it. Avey Tare Yeah, it feels really alien.

September 5, 2012 – Landing the same year as Kubrick's 2001, New York techno-pop bad trip Silver Apples were a similarly disorienting mix of the darkly robotic and the decidedly psychotropic on their 1968 debut. Tinkering on a massive oscillator of their own design, the duo were among the very first to explore the transformative tension between pummeling rock, wub-wubbing electronic noise, and sampledelic radio rumbles. Geologist: I feel like a lot of the reference points for this record are almost going back to formative ones, like White Noise or Silver Apples. Back to the Centipedia glossary NEXT: Silver Jews – Starlite Walker

September 5, 2012 – Though the most singable song in Texas Chainsaw Massacre was the jaunty fingerpicker "Fool For a Blonde," what really revved up this 1974 gutsapalooza to a horrific breaking point was the creeptacular sound design by director Tobe Hooper and his buddy Wayne Bell. Eschewing traditional songs, they filled the film wall to bloody wall with inhuman drones and rattles and scrapes and squeals. And they're reported to make some of this nail-biting tension via DIY means — like scraping the prongs of pitchfork. Avey Tare: I had read somewhere in high school that the soundtrack to Texas Chainsaw Massacre being described as musique concrète in Rolling Stone or something. I was like 'music concrete?" Geologist: I thought that was the name of the soundtrack. Avey Tare: I never heard that term before when I was in high school.