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Band of the Week: Magik Markers

The rather useless term “noise-pop” is frequently attached to bands that are deficient in one or both of those areas. Magik Markers can bring the noise. They can rock an extended jam that veers outside of structure or melody. They are good at these things...  read more

Magik Markers restrain themselves on new album

It is interesting how folks who videotape noise bands end up doing said bands one better. You thought twenty straight minutes of feedback was challenging? Try a mere five minutes of feedback recorded through a sub-par digital camera mic, compressed one or two times over for YouTube. Oh the unholy mess of cacophonous brain-to-bowel shaking sonics that result. Magik Markers live videos are impressively painful. Observe: - BWWWBBWWWBWWWWAHBWWAHWBWAHH - EEESKKKKEEEEKKKSKKSKKKKKKRRRRRRRRR - PLIKeeEEAH PLIKeeEEAH PLIKeeEEAH For their very first studio album, on Thurston Moore’s Ecstatic Peace label, the Markers claim to exhibit a new sense of “formality and restraint.” Who wants...  read more