It's another chapter in Loren Connors' ongoing The Departing of a Dream vision. Just months after reviving it from a ten-year hiatus with the release of Volume V -- Loren Connors issues Volume VI, another movement of saturated guitar tones, dissonance and impermanence.

"Gone are the slow-moving bass lines and the identifiable pedal-craft of the first go-around. What’s left is the sound of Connors alone in a room full of people, drawing out gradually fading tones and percussive echoes. Each note does the work of a Webernian orchestral passage, each interval is a look into the grave, and the distant chatter of the crowd on this live recording seems impossibly far away" -- Bill Meyer, Still Single

The 10-inch record in out Oct. 14 in an edition of 550 copies with cover art by Connors.

Both Will Escape is the debut full-length between electric guitarist Tashi Dorji and percussionist Tyler Damon. At times Dorji's brutal electric torrents meld into Damon's metal and tonal abstractions on this 500-edition LP. 

These two are off to Raleigh, NC this weekend to play at Hopscotch Music Festival: 

Friday, Sept. 9th @ Three Lobed / WXDU Hopscotch Festival day show, hosted @ Kings: – Damon w/ Manas (Dorji & Thom Nguyen); Damon duo with. Sarah Louise

Saturday, Sept. 10th @ Hopscotch Festival, hosted @ Nash Hall

Yes, it's happening. Dow Jones and the Industrials will perform two Indiana shows in celebration of the long-awaited release of Can't Stand The Midwest 1979-1981 anthology.

Thursday Sept. 15 @ The Spot Tavern, Lafayette

Friday Sept. 16 @ State Street Pub, Indianapolis

Let's just say, it's been years in the making... Dow Jones and the Industrials' anthology Can't Stand The Midwest 1979-1981 will be released on Sept. 16, 2016 as a 2xLP+DVD set. Yeah, CD is an option too. 

This is the definitive story told through 29 remastered songs -- including 1980 Hoosier Hysteria LP, 1981 7-inch EP, 9 unreleased studio tracks plus compilation, demo and live recordings -- liner notes by Gizmos' Dale Lawrence and Keith Smith's unpublished photographs of the Indiana punk scene. Plus, there's a DVD of the wild Sept. 1980 performance at at the legendary Indianapolis punk club Third Base. 

And if that is not enough, we dug up and polished five songs by Mr. Science -- the Industrials' synth wizz and DIY producer. Those are available as a 7-inch EP in the deluxe mail order only version of the album.

Read more here.