Christmas on Death Row-V/A

It's Jesus' birthday you punk bitches. Show some fuckin' Christmas spirit and blast this shit while your fuckin yo bitch by an open fire. This aint no fucking bing crosby bitch, This is X-mas on death row so brace yo-self fo some mad holiday wishes.

MERRY CHRISTMAS.PEACE

Estradasphere-Palace of Mirrors

Heavy hitting rock experimental rock. Definitely a cool album. With tracks that vary in style from jazzy big band to secret agent surf, from Eastern sounding folk weirdness to electronic madness. This one has something for every one. Estradasphere kind of sounds like the trans-siberian orchestra having a bad acid trip while exploring the adams family mansion.

The Unfolding Pause of The Threshold

Bathory-Under The Sign Of The Black Mark

One of my personal favorites. This album will take you "Under" to some "Dark" and "Black" places, "Under" some kind "Of" "Sign" or "Mark."

"THE"

Born Bad/Duress-Spilt

If you haven't heard duress get their demo HERE. Born Bad is pretty good hardcore. give em both a listen. It wont take you more than 5 minutes to listen to the spilt as whole so WHY NOT GIVE IT A TRY

Wow what'dya know you can get their indifference 7 inch on here too

...And their tape (which rules)

Thrones-Sperm Whale

I've never heard sludge like this before. Joe Preston's(who has played in Sunn O))), Earth, and the melvins) project is a really original take on the Sludge/doom/drone genre. The usage of drum machines and synthesizers give the album an electronica feeling. This melds perfectly with the lumbering and powerful bass riffs and the sometimes insanely effects heavy vocals. This is a very fresh take on something that i thought couldn't of gotten any better. For fans of Harvey Milk, Sunn O))),Sleep, Etc.. This one is really worth a listen.

Oso Malo

Ulrich Schnauss - A Strangely Isolated Place

Another cool space-out album. The guy who showed me this called it a mix between "chillwave" and "shoegaze", and I think that's a good way to describe the album's sound. sort of a mix between Brian Eno, Boards of Canada, Moby, and Sigur Ròs. A very cool, light-hearted album, like a shimmering breeze of melodies and beats and shit.

In All the Wrong Places

Nico-The Marble Index

The Marble Index's sounds like an off kilter nightmare. Orchestrated by a terrible and beautiful siren(nico). With drunken rhythms on harmonium backed by folk instruments from the dark and inner most grim areas of the human mind. Beautiful and off kilter folk weirdness.

Boo Ya

Toro Y Moi - Causers of This

dank, fuzzy, dreamy, lo-fi chillwave. It's tha good stuff. My fav tracks are Blessa, Lissoms, and You Hid. Give it a spin, d00d.

The 13th Floor Elevators- The Psychedelic Sounds of The 13th Floor Elevators

The pioneers of psychedelic rock. Classic 60's psychedelia. Good jams with fantastic vocals. But probably the trippiest sounds on the album were made by a jug and microphone. I've never really heard of or heard a jug be used in anything else but hillbilly,bluegrass and country style music and i most certainly i have never heard it been used in a psychedelic rock band before. A band that was really ahead of their time useing screaming and feedback in rock music. GOOD SHIT

Never knew how trippy a jug was

Tetsu Inoue - Ambiant Otaku

An amazing ambient/ space-out album... This is Tetsu's first album, plus the first album of his that I have listened to, and I'm going to have to pick up the rest of his discography because this one is so good. Reminiscent of Eno's spacey stuff and gentle Tim Hecker. Each song on this album envelops you with beautiful electronica melodies and field recordings and your head starts floating and you can hear your hair growing and your hands are pulsing and the land is expanding before your very eyes. Just a gem of an album. Anyone who likes floating on the ceiling should pick this up.

Low of Vibration

DJ Screw-All Screwed Up

THUGGIN. Straight up no bullshit murderous thuggin. Slow,low, and in control DJ Screw hailing from Texas made slow bass heavy rap Remixes. This album would be perfect if you were about to something illegal and totally bad ass that you know you were gonna get away with just because of the clout you have in your urban community. Truly a slow rolling, low ridding, blunt smoking album. Get It and prepare to get down waaaaaay down

Salem-Yes I Smoke Crack EP and Water EP

Heres twofer for you all Henry posted Salem's King Knight album(now with working link go get it before it gets taken down) but yea i just got into them today and they are quite possibly the best new thing i've heard out there. Hypnotic bass beats covered in shimmering and rough synth. MUST LISTEN GET THIS SHIT NOW

Yes I Smoke Crack

WATER

Jimmy McMillan - The Rent is Too Damn High

Ain't nothin' else to talk 'bout.

Space Invaders-99% Piss

MOTHERFUCK FUTURE SONOF A BITCH.BEASTIE BOYS FUCK YOU SPACE INVADER NUMBER ONE RAPSTAR ALL TIME GREATEST 99% ORGASM. This shit is to great not to listen to. If The Beastie Boys were Japanese they would be these guys. Really really ridiculously Japanese. Just get it you wont regret a single second.


99% PISS 99% ORGASM 100% JAP-RAP

John Lennon and Yoko ono-Two Virgins

(I feel like this is kinda dangerous posting a Beatle, because of all the licensing issue's but im gonna do it any way cuz i love ya<3)I've always wanted to listen to this album and the other day i finally did. MINDBLOWING. This is a nightmarish cluster fuck of vocals, organs, feedback,bird sounds and all other sorts of crazy sound effects. I did not expect the album to sound this ominous and haunting. Truly a Chilling listen.

tender, sweet and gentle sex

Sad Lovers and Giants-Epic Garden Music

Here we have Sad Lovers and Giants. A post-punk band i've really been getting into as of late. Just real and honest, catchy songs filled with both hope and loneliness. Fun synth sounds with brush strokes of pleasantly reverbed guitar riffs make these guys a must listen to for fans of The Cure, Joy Division, Blessure Grave etc.

When we were dancing
I saw the look in your eyes
Now we are strangers
Lost in a sea full of sighs

Oval - 94 Diskont

Have you ever listened to a CD skipping and you thought to yourself "Wow, this actually sounds kind of cool"? If so, then this is the band for you. Pretty fascinating stuff.

Do While ⌘X

Spooky Songs and Terrifying Tunes

OK, Halloween is today, so before you go trick or treating and getting drunk as shit and hitting on underage girls in costumes, you might wanna check out some of these albums to give yourself an extra spook on this ghoulish occasion:

Stalaggh - Projekt Misanthropia

Stalaggh was an anonymous trio that used criminally insane mental patients to do the vocals for their noise-driven "Misanthropik Nihilistik Audio-Terror" music. They wanted "the pain and hatred in the vocals to be real and not acted," And boy, does some real pain shine through here on this abomination of human expression. This is scary stuff. Enter if you dare.

LINK

Abigail - Blasphemy Night

Calling themselves "the most evil band in Japan", Abigail's lo-fi garage demo of spookmire and darkness deserves a spot on this list for some reason.

LINK

Anton LaVey - The Satanic Mass

Pretty self-explanatory. This is an actual recording of a Satanic Mass, led by Anton LaVey, leader of the Church of Satan. Pretty goddamn doomy you can imagine, so is a must for

anyone's candy basket of evil.

LINK

Boris Karloff - Tales of the Frightened Volume I

Boris Karloff reading some hair-raising ghost stories. See, look how raised his hair is in this picture. 'Nuff said.

LINK

Screaming Lord Sutch And The Savages - Comp

Maybe the spookiest man in rock and roll history. With Hair even more raised the Boris Karloff, you know this is going to be ghoulish. Heres a collection of some horrifying rock n roll tracks from the man himself.

LINK

Scientist - Rids the World of the Curse of theVampires

Here's some ghastly dub for you all. Very fiendish dubs on this album. Just look at all the boogins scientist is riding the world of in his swamp buggy of dubbish horror.

LINK

Danzig - I and II

a double dose of danzig, because who loves satan, death and all things spooky more than danzig. C'mon just look at the cross and chest hair.(i pretty much posted this just for the album cover.)

LINK I

LINKII

Those Poor Bastards - Hellfire Hymns

Misery, desperation, damnation, repent for yer sins now or face eternity of burning, and, torture in satans kingdom of hell. Those Poor Bastards are some of the most lonesome and miserable gothic country yer sinful ears have ever heard.

LINK

ARE YOU SPOOKED? STARTLED? DARE I SAY SCARED? OH I BET YOU ARE. I BET YOU ARE SUCKING ON YOUR THUMBS CRYING WISHING YOU NEVER HAD CLICKED ON THIS GRISLY COLLECTION OF AUDIO HELL. WISHING A GHOULISH GRIM HALLOWEEN FROM ALL OF US HERE AT ROBIN WILLIAMS KNUCKLES. AND REMEMBER TO LOCK YOUR DOORS OR LORD SPOOKMIRE WILL GANK YER SHIT AND EAT YOUR SOUL. HAIL SATAN 666 DEATH

Nervous Norvus-Stone Age Woo the Zorch Sound Of Nervous Norvus

Its that time of year again when the leaves turn, the children dress up and ring my door bell all night asking for candy and i have to tell them i don't have any because I ended up getting to drunk eating it all and throwing it up in the backyard. Yes! Thats right it's a Halloween fun for all. What a better way to start The Hallo-weekend then with Nervous Norvus the 50's (god i hate to call him this but) "novelty rocker" . This is a collection of all of his singles(and possibly all of his recordings). Norvus wrote the majority of these songs as a demo service writing them so other people could preform them. But Enough pre-history lets get to the sound. Nervous Norvus mixes his brand of 50's acoustic rock n roll with NOISE yes thats right noise sounds of car crashes, blood curdling screams, Insane warp sounds of UFO's. The lyrical content range from outer space aliens to baboons, to elvis, to love. All in All Nervous Norvus will be sure to Spook and please any guests you are planning on entertaining this Halloween. Best Spooky Tracks: The Fang, Kibble Kibble(The Flying Saucer Song), Stone Age Woo, and Blackout song

One Morning I was Born on The Planet Mars

Disemballerina-S/T

This is one of the most crushingly beautiful albums i have heard in so long. Incredibly powerful music played on a viola, harp, cello and acoustic guitar. It sounds like a renaissance era existential crisis. just really strong, reflective, Beautiful music. MUST LISTEN

I'm not going to even try to give these guys a genre tag they are honestly above that.

Crass-Demos 1977-1979

Great lo-fi Anarcho Punk jamz. I don't feel like writing a review. It's Crass its pretty self-explanatory. Its really worth a listen.

Movements are Systems, Systems Kill, yes thats right home boy systems KILL.

Oneohtrix Point Never - Returnal

This is an absolute must, must, must have for any fans of Brian Eno, Tim Hecker, Fennesz, Wolfgang Voigt and other noise/drone artists. This very well may be my pick for Best Album of 2010. The first track sounds like the creation of the Sun or something, definitely the coolest song I've heard in a long time. The rest of the album just makes you feel like you're gently sinking deeper and deeper into a K hole. Pretty crazy shit, man. Who needs drugs when you got this shit

Tim Hecker - Apondalifa

Super intense 7" of just crazy, beautiful Tim Hecker noise. It's only 9 minutes long, but it's soundscape is about as giant as the above picture. I'm tepted to call it a wall of noise, but I think it'd be more appropriate to call it a sky of noise, or something along those lines. Yeah. Here's a preview of half of the song right here:TIM HECKER - APONDALIFA (SIDE A) by ROOM40

And Here's the whole thing

Munly and The Lupercalians-Bootleg

This man eats, Sleeps, and breaths Gothic Americana. Dark, depraved, and desperate vocals paint the picture on a canvas of banjo, and guitar. Every time Munly comes out with a new project, I am blown away. This is his newest band The Lupercalians (who's new full length album "Petr and The Wulf" has just come out, I will post it when i find a mediafire link.But its only 8 buck on ITunes and i really suggest you buy it if you like this album.) the band adorns robes and hoods reminiscent of the KKK but in realty it is traditional pagan ceremonial garb, so needless to say these guys would be a trip to see. The band is made up of two church organs two percussionists and munly on banjo at the center, giving them the sound of a backwoods pagan group dancing in the moonlight.

If you find heaven has turned you away, Follow my brethren

I Don't Feel at Home in This world Anymore-V/A

There is one thing that i will always truly love no matter where my music journey takes me and that is primitive and roots music. i love anything primitive anything old timey anything that sound like they were cooking bacon over the recording because of how the pops and cracks of the old, vinyl or acetate on the recording, hearing the needle pressing into the record, there is nothing in the world that sounds better. This record is a great example of these things "I Don't feel at home in this world anymore" is a collection of various artists recordings from 1927-1948 and it is beautiful ,immigrants, natives and travelers sing their songs for you in this masterpiece collection. HIGHLY RECOMENDED

Blow Wind Blow

The Tallest Man On Earth-Sometimes the Blues is Just a Passing Bird (EP)

Here at robin williams knuckles we like this guy, weve posted his music before , this is his new E.P. . Mostly the same great folk you'd expect but this time he throws in some electric guitar and organ in one track(and im thinking really little sound effects here and there through out). But enough technical mumbo jumbo. I have noticed that that this guy seems to put out new albums or i discover his new albums just when i need them. He keeps finding new ways to make me remember old things, both in his music and in my life.

And on this Sunday someone's sititng down to wonder
Where the hell among these mountains will I be?
There's a cloud behind the cloud to which I'm yelling
I could hear you sneak around so easily

Former Ghosts-Old Love Mixtape

One of my favorite bands. I posted their stuff before and now freddy ruppert is back with the same brand of sad synthy post-punk we all love. This is a remix,covers, and outakes album(all from the new album that hasnt come out yet but is comming out soon.) This is more than a good snack to hold you over this is a meal.

Download there>http://www.freddyruppert.com/Welcome to Old Love.zip

Salem - King Night

I'ma gonna post this now because the link to this will probably get deleted very soon. I'm gonna pull a Holtzer now and just copy/paste someone else's explanation of these guys:

A dark mystique has surrounded Salem since the trio released its debut EP, Yes I Smoke Crack, in 2008. The ominous imagery of their album artwork, the tales of John Holland's teenage prostitution and drug use and their place among the creators of the witch house/drag style gave the band something of a mythic quality even before their first full-length, King Night, was released. Over the course of their prolific singles and EPs, Holland, John Donoghue and Heather Marlatt shaped a sound that was as distinctive as it was improbable, fusing beats descended from juke and Southern hip-hop, electronics with a goth bent and shoegazing guitars into something deeply weird and trippy but also surprisingly natural, as if those elements had just been waiting to be combined. On the surface, goth and hip-hop may not have much in common, but they often share a bleak romanticism that Salem has in spades. King Night's title track blends choral vocals, suffocating synths and a tinny beat that is so obviously, proudly mechanical that it adds extra coldness while nodding to hip-hop. “Killer” boasts guitars so heavy they could have come from a Sunn 0))) album, while “Traxx” uses a sample of rattling chains as percussion. Thanks to having three writers and vocalists, the band is also good at adding depth and variety to a style that could seem like a novelty. Marlatt sounds like a fallen angel, adding credence to Salem's goth undercurrents with darkly ethereal tones that evoke the Cocteau Twins and This Mortal Coil on “Frost” and the beautiful “Redlights,” one of the band’s earliest and most definitive songs. Any small rays of hope raised by her songs are dashed by Donoghue's tracks, which very well may be the heart of Salem's unsettling darkness. He brings the trio’s hip-hop roots to the fore, rapping with a roll so slow he sounds like a zombie drinking sizzurp mixed with laudanum. His tracks are lulling and filled with dread at the same time, as on “Trapdoor,” where he intones “I can’t feel shit” over a looped sample of a car crash, or on “Sick,” where the refrain might as well be “six six six”. Meanwhile, Holland's tracks are somewhere in the middle, with his voice blurred into another wisp of Salem's fog. He emphasizes texture on “Release da Boar,” where echo-locating reverb and delay are piled on top of dead-of-night shoegaze with a sluggish pulse, and on “Hound,” where bongos take the song in an unexpected direction. Throughout all of King Night, the feeling of a séance being held or a spell being cast is palpable, but Salem's ability to be affecting and menacing at the same time is pure alchemy. ~ Heather Phares, Rovi

This is some mad, goofy electro right here. It's spooky and lo-fi and unlike anything else I've really heard. You might as well hear it and see what you think. I still haven't listened to it enought to really know what I think yet, but time is of the essence here. It's only a matter of time before this link goes dead.

WITCHHOUSE IS THE BEST HOUSE YOU CAN BE IN

Tycho - Past is Prologue

An album that I've had for a while and never really gotten sick of. Sort of a cross between Boards of Canada and Okinawa Lifestyle. Really shimmering and groovy.

The Disconnect

Goudron-Raw Voltage

Goudron is an elctro-pop/synthpop band on ersatz audio. Ersatz audio is a label i just found out about, they release some great synth-pop and electronica, i seriously want everything this label has to offer. Enough about the label though and on to the album. Most of the songs on this album remind me of that song from the life aquatic you, you know which one im talking about, the reeally synthy one? Eh maybe not. just some all in all great synth-pop, really fun and fresh electronic beats. Top Notch album if i do say so myself.

CIVIL SYMMETRY

Grinderman- Heathen Child video from grinderman 2

nick cave and a select group of his bad seeds are back with their side-project Grinderman.

Wolves,Women,Lazers, and nick cave taking down the roman empire what more could you want?

Wu-Tang Clan - Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

While we're on the subject of hip-hop, this needs to be posted. Probably the only rap album you will ever need. It's simply a fucking classic, and is pretty much on everybody's top 10 list of best hip hop albums ever. So Fuck you if you don't have this.

Cash Rules Everything Around Me

Blu & Exile- Below The Heavens

A good old hip hop, Blu's a rapper with a style similiar to old Common. The beats are sample heavy not synthy no drum machines Exile does a great job producing especially on Dancing in the Rain and Below the Heaven part 1. In Rememberance another good job on Exile's part. Really this album is just similiar to hip hop albums of the late 80's and early 90's.

Dancing In The Rain

Former Ghosts- Fleurs

This is the best new band i have heard in god knows how long. Imagine if Joy division had sex with a synthesizer and spat out one of the most beautifully sad albums i have ever heard. I can not stop listening to this masterpiece, i kid you not i have listened to this six times today and i just want more. Also A side project of jamie stewart(Xiu Xiu, Ten In The Swear Jar I have just recently posted them) , Jamie steps down from postion of front man and singer and song writer Freddy Ruppert takes center stage delivering an array of heart felt, and powerful songs chalked full of emotion. THIS IS A MUST LISTEN

Pretty Rad Video

Former Ghosts "Hold On" Music Video from Amir Shoucri on Vimeo.

I'm Begging You to not let me walk away

Krzysztof Penderecki - Matrix 5

Yes, it's about damn time we post some of this guy's stuff. A visionary genius of 20th century classical composition, Penderecki experiments with the boundaries of what an orchestra can do. He terrifies and stuns millions. Listen to his Threnody for the Victims of Hiromshima. His orchestra wails like air-raid sirens throughout, and about two minutes into the song, the players start slapping and hitting their instruments. If you dig weirdness of this nature, you will thoroughly enjoy this man's work.

MATRIX 5

Paavoharju - Yhä Hämärää

An eerie and beautiful folk band of Finnish Ascetic-Christians. I've been diggin' on this album of theirs for about a week, and I'm itchin' to share. To help describe its weirdness, it'd be the product of Penguin Cafe Orchestra and Sigur Rós if they got together and ate a fair amount of Fly Agaric mushrooms while they recorded some cool Eastern music with various, multi-cultural string instruments, a GameBoy, and some of Fuck Buttons' mixers. Magical.

Syvyys

Ten In The Swear Jar(XITSJ)-My Very Private Map

XITSJ is Jamie stewarts band that eventually became Xiu Xiu. Imagine an accordion heavy and how should i say, eh, less gay sounding Xiu Xiu(not that he doesnt sound fucking fantastic in xiu xiu he just sounds more like he likes girls in this band)

My chest burns

Leonard Cohen-Live From the BBC 1968

They should rename this album songs to kill yourself to. This live bootleg album takes songs from the songs of leonard cohen, songs from a room, and songs of love and hate and takes the already dark, somber songs and kicks up the depression factor. the best way i can describe this album is depressed and hopeless. This defintely has spooky and dark versions of your favorite Cohen songs. THIS MAY BE THE BEST LEONARD COHEN LBUM I HAVE HEARD THUS FAR.

Theres No Reason You Should Remember Me

John Butler - Ocean (song)

Yes, his dreadlocks make him look like a douchebag, and his fingernails are just plain creepy, but you can't deny that John Butler is a pretty boss guitar player.

Okinawa Lifestyle - Lazy Friend You Move So Fast

Really cool and interesting chillwave/techno grooves. If you don't know what chillwave is, it's sort of a movement from the west coast and Georgia, known for its shimmering, glossy techno compositions that remind you of summer. Players in this genre are also really big fans of lo-fi photography, and being hipsters. Still, a really fun genre to listen to, especially when it's this good. This is one of the most refreshing albums I've heard in a while. A great find from HolyFuckingShit40000

Click HERE to go to their website and download the 5 songs for free. There's an option to download the whole album, but for some reason, that doesn't work on their website. So just download the tracks individually.

Cool Space Videos

Yo if you like outer space and the universe and all that good shit, then check this shit out:

Boards of Canada - Dayvan Cowboy

Tom | MySpace Video

Neu! - Neu!

I'm not sure why it took us so long to post this album, but here it finally. Required listening for anyone who follows our blog at all.

Hallogallo

A Cry From The Earth: Music of the North American Indians

if you are anything like me, Indian chants, songs, and ceremonies are sweet. This album is great, actually recordings of real songs from real native people. Truly beautiful sounds come from these various native cultures captured on this album.

Cry Earth Cry

DURESS - Rough Tape Demo

One of the hardest-hitting punk things EVER. In case you haven't noticed, I'm a huge fucking fan of Duress. These guys bring violence back to rock n' roll, with their singer concussing himself, throwing cinderblocks and whipping chains at the audience. Their violence shows in this tape too, which is why I love it so much. It's so fucking ungodly. Their new Indifference 7" is really sweet too, but this one is even more br00tal and deserves to be listened to. The whole thing is like four minutes long, so just get it and go beat a kid up or something.

GUIIIIILT

G A S - Oktember

Another sweet mindfuck by Wolfgang Voigt's side project Gas. This is a two-song EP that will knock your socks off and so on. It's dark. It's scary. It's trippy as hell. It's like his later album Pop, except much more frightening and off-putting. Plus it's got more of a four-on-the-floor beat goin on. I really, really like these two songs. Get it.

Track 2's probably the best.