SXSW Review: No Age at Radio Room Patio

Los Angeles noise-punk duo No Age [ tickets ] brought its bombast to SXSW on Thursday night (3/19), delivering an all-too-brief glimpse into the group's trademark combination of ear-busting distortion and delicious gear-shifts revealing the more-or-less traditional post-punk songwriting underneath. / Read more

SXSW Performer: No Age (Los Angeles, CA)

In a world without Sonic Youth, No Age [ tickets ] would be much harder to explain, let alone embrace. The LA duo-- drummer/vocalist Dean Spunt and guitarist Randy Randall--finds the edge in its music between utter confusion and breathtaking beauty and skates down the center. Swirling eddies of noise and confusion appear from thin air and are replaced just as mysteriously by perfect melody, but nothing lasts forever, no matter how fat and tempting the hook. "Nouns," the band's 28-minute sophomore album from last year, contained a 68-page booklet that framed the band as sort of an art-school project in progress, but the album's lead single, "Eraser," with its Spectoresque Wall of Sound integrated with, variously, an atonal droning hum and Spunt's matter-of-fact vocals, does all the talking the band needs in a brisk 2 minutes, 41 seconds. / Read more