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Monday nights at the Lit Lounge basement are reserved for those who wear black T-shirts with unidentifiable band names, while every other night it's the ultimate indie and experimental rock haven. Aug. 24 trod the border of both extremes, when Brooklyn mathy noise rockers Goes Cube took over the joint...

Do you remember cassettes? The slender layout tucked and compressed, the smell of plastic when the wrapping was cut and the slurping lizard sound the tape made when the car's deck ate it. Torche drummer Rick Smith certainly remembers cassettes...

STORMING THE GATES: Alright amplifier worshippers, prepare thyselves for a doom connossieur's dream tour. Atlanta's Zoroaster will be hitting the road in August for a fortnight of raucous riffs, titanic tone, and pounding percussion with Indiana's The Gates of Slumber and Belgium's Serpentcult...

To be fair, Chris McCaddon, singer of Famine, has nothing against death metal bands. It's those "death metal bands" he has a problem with. "A band, who will not be named, they just show up and don't know anything about their gear or about music," McCaddon told Noisecreep in our New York office...

Jonathan Nuñez the bassist of Torche paused for a moment and let an, "uuuhh" preceded his actual words. "No," he told Noiscreep, "we're writing the same way we always have written." The question was whether the writing process has changed for Torche over the years, especially since the success of last years 'Meanderthal'. It'd ...