... important bands out there today. Unearthed from the mines of Connecticut in 2001, Magik Markers have been brutalizing audiences with their shattering live appearances and recordings since the first part of this century. They are now living and creating on opposite sides of ... just happened?”- Michael Crumsho DECEMBER JAMS SIC ALPS & MAGIK MARKERS 12.09.09 San Jose, CA @ ...

Black Flag - Jealous Again Dark Meat - Future Galaxies Afternoon Brother - Hack Circle Atlas Sound - Walkabout (w/ Noah Lennox) Magik Markers - Don't Talk In Your Sleep Peter Broderick - And It's Alright Early Day Miners - Placer Found Animal Collective - What Would I Want? Sky Parallel Dance Ensemble - ...

... , no voices, just endless instrumental lockgroove ecstasy. Magik Markers Balf Quarry (Drag City) CD - It's been a real trick'r treat in the last few months going back and rediscovering all the great Magik Markers live gigs and long-gone seedy-rs in ... continuously listenable, weird and straight up kickass. 'Course it could be said the Markers owe a debt to the 'Youth's ...

... nothing, but the world of independent music spins on our collective little finger. Deerhunter would be nothing without us. Evangelista wouldn't be on their rocket ship ride to the top. And doesn't Magik Markers have a record on the Billboard Top 40? Pretty sure they do. That's what they call the TMT bump. The (...) - TOUR NEWS

Slasher Risk. Slasher Risk, from New York, are rapidly becoming my new avant/noise/improv/whatever crush band, combining some of the same elements that used to make Magik Markers and Charalambides so unmissable with plenty of the malevolent horror movie tension and sonic violence their name implies. And like the reference ...

... UP Passion Pit @ Fox Theater Pomona Sat 12/12 Grant-Lee Philips @ Largo Sat 12/12 St Vincent w/ Wildbirds & Peacedrums @ El Rey Tue 2/9 Magik Markers @ The Smell Mon 12/21 Fink (Fin Greenall) @ Spaceland Fri 12/4 Sea Wolf @ The Roxy Thu 12/17 West Coast, Left Coast: Songs of the Sun with Brian ...