Moth Cock News Today

Plus: James King (aka the GTW) launches the #chigeria series of weekly song drops, and both founders of local weirdo label Hausu Mountain release solo records.

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Indulgent, arcane, and often hilarious, the Ohio noise-jazz improvisers’ new three-and-a-half-hour cassette collection is too weird to be boring.

A rundown of select concerts taking place this week (Nothing, Our Lady Peace), plus recently announced shows: Kesha, Sleaford Mods and more

Hausu Mountain has released a staggering array of music in the nine years since the label was founded: longform drone and lysergic easy listening; slow-motion techno and blown-out breakcore; hymns to the Weather Channel and fingerpicked Americana; mutant gabber-screamo and whatever the hell you call the music of Ohio duo Moth Cock. For all its range, though, the label’s guiding aesthetic is easy to describe. “We like gaudy, trippy, rainbow stuff,” says label co-founder Maxwell Allison. Hi...