Death Grips - No Love Deep Web

Allegedly, Death Grips had a dispute with their record company Epic because Epic wanted to release the album "sometime next year" instead of October 23rd, as advertised. Thus they resolved to release the album themselves today (Oct. 1st), complimented by a garish cover photo of an erect cock with album title scrawled down the shaft. It's either a wonderful act of rebellion or an extremely tacky corporate publicity stunt. Who knows? Who cares? Fucking DEATH GRIPS.

Download it here. (Be sure to click the top most button that says "Premium Download" as the bottom two buttons are part of a sneaky fake advertisement that will install adware under the name iLivid onto your computer. And trust me, you don't want that shit on your computer.)
Stream it on Soundcloud.
Death Grips' website.

UPDATE: According to the DG Facebook page, their website thirdworlds.net is down as some sort of retaliation by Epic for their move to drop the album today. As far as I know, this isn't verified.

UNRELATED UPDATE: Reviews coming (hopefully) this week:
USSA Pleasuredome - 25 (Promo EP) - Baltimore experimental electronic / post-rock
Vagina* - Psychedelic Erotica - Harsh-as-fuck improv noise rock also  from Baltimore

Also, expect a Death Grips review(s) soon.

Maryland Death Fest XI -- Venue Update

With the (second) closing of Sonar, it seemed MDF had nowhere to go in this fine city of Baltimore, especially considering their complete lack of luck with finding a substitute. But thankfully, that has changed, and MDF will be at its old stomping grounds, which are apparently under new management. Here's the message just sent out over Facebook from the MDF page:

We're a day early with this announcement, but we can finally let you know where MDF XI will be taking place.

In a nutshell, we will be returning to the property formerly known as Sonar, and will be at least doubling the amount of outside space that we've been used to utilizing. We realize that it's a bit of a mind fuck to wait around for a few months just to hear that the fest is returning to the same place, but truth be told, the other places we looked at were either not able to give us a definite answer anytime soon, and/or had too many inconveniences that we did not want to put the fans through. During the venue search, it was brought to our attention that the new owners of the property were willing to collaborate with us, so we decided to go through with returning to a familiar place that is close to the hotels and conveniences of downtown Baltimore.

As for the building itself, there are some renovations currently taking place, but the rooms will be used exactly how they have been in the past, and it will be air conditioned throughout. 

We would also like to announce the addition of a second inside stage at Baltimore Soundstage, which is a 1/2 mile walk away from the former Sonar (at 124 Market Place), and will be used from Friday-Sunday. This will be a smaller show without a barricade that will feature mostly hardcore and punk bands, and it will be scheduled in a way that should not conflict with anything going on at the former Sonar compound. All of the bands for this stage will be included in next week's announcement on October 9th.

So there ya have it. For more updates, check out the Maryland Deathfest website and Facebook page.