Two veteran noise rock bands, Rhode Island’s Lightning Bolt and Japan’s OOIOO, have teamed up for a split LP called The Horizon Spirals / The Horizon Viral that arrives on April 24 via Thrill Jockey ...

For many years, Providence noise-rock legends Lightning Bolt and experimental Osaka wizards the Boredoms have recognized each other as fellow travelers. I once saw Lightning Bolt open a New York ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lightning Bolt drummer-vocalist Brian Chippendale said in a press release, “OOIOO set the tone with The Horizon Spiral but we didn ...

A basic principle of science is that experiments are bound to fail as often as they succeed, a point usually glazed over by devotees of experimental music. Because the cookie-cutter recording industry ...

OOIOO's new album, Gamel, comes out July 1. You may be unfamiliar with OOIOO, but you've likely heard of the woman behind all those vowels: Yoshimi, drummer in the raucous Japanese band Boredoms and ...

The nomadic odyssey into parts unknown that Yoshimi — drummer colossus for iconic Japanoise experimental aliens Boredoms — has embarked on has been a face-ripping journey in sound deconstruction. As ...

Lightning Bolt and OOIOO have joined forces for a new split LP, titled The Horizon Spirals / The Horizon Viral. Spanning seven tracks, the record takes in two songs from OOIOO, the project of Boredoms ...

This one from Boredom's Yoshimi and her side-job OOIOO was on the internet a week ago but it wasn't in this Flickr set so we missed it. It also just so happens that we've been listening to OOIOO's new ...

The 90s are back! Veruca Salt plays on Monday, and that’s something to get excited for. Unfortunately, the show is sold out. While they’re not the blast of angsty nostalgia Veruca Salt would have been ...

Kyoko, the mononym guitarist and founding member of Japanese experimental rockers OOIOO, died on Sunday. Her former bandmate, Boredoms drummer Yoshimi P-We, confirmed the news with an Instagram post. ...

Two dormant giants of experimental rock, Lightning Bolt and OOIOO, have teamed up for a split LP, The Horizon Spirals / The Horizon Viral. The Thrill Jockey labelmates will release the record on the ...

Those of us already familiar with OOIOO - the experimental, experiential troupe led by Boredoms’ Yoshimi - will probably head into the group’s latest with an expectation of the unfamiliar. For the ...