Yet that just hinted at the power of Ripped and Torn. Lifeguard have their own wonderfully brash power-clang guitar attack, jumping right in with the frantic “A Tightwire” and keeping the buzz going ...

As I write this, I’m ripping a CD at about 10x, and the SuperDrive in my Mac mini is hardly making any noise. I’ve been ripping a box set of Schubert piano sonatas, so all the CDs are similar ...

ripping, noisy punk that fans of other Jack Shirley collaborators will surely dig. There’s bits of all kinds of familiar music, like The Jesus Lizard’s swampy post-hardcore, more experimental ...

rather-ripping noise duo with experimental guitarist Bill Nace. For fans of SY’s transgressive Eighties downtown bluster, Body/Head‘s 2013 debut Coming Apart was a welcome wade back into the ...

Keep in mind that at 40x the CD is spinning at 8,000+ revs per minute. Any weight imbalance, even just the weight of the ink on a commercial CD, will cause a slight imbalance and noise.

Physicists at the Helsinki University of Technology in Finland have spent hours ripping up newspaper and measuring the noise it makes 1. The sound, conclude Lauri Salminen and colleagues, is ...