The genuinely genre-defying Kayo Dot have announced a new album, Blasphemy, due September 6 via Prophecy Productions (pre-order). It was co-produced by the band’s own Toby Driver and the very talented ...

When we last discussed the upcoming Sal Mineo (aka Eugene Robinson of Oxbow & Xiu Xiu’s Jamie Stewart) show at Bell House on September 6, not much was known other than the dates (one of three total).

Kayo Dot has never made the same record twice. To read various descriptions from magazines and reviews, you might feel like you couldn't be reading about the same band. From chamber music to black ...

While many major metal bands are playing albums in full (from Opeth to Megadeth), it is still a rarity to see a more underground, experimental metal band do the same. On Feb. 6, Kayo Dot not only ...

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After years of writing and recording, Kayo Dot's main mastermind Toby Driver has got his routine down pat. "I think when you have music that is that complicated, the way to be most successful ...

File Kayo Dot into that category of bands I don’t know a whole about but ought to; every time I’ve heard their music over the years I’ve liked it. Learn from my mistake and don’t be a fool; listen to ...

We’ve called them “Heavy as Fuck and Weird as Hell” in the past and at one point my predecessor said their inability to catch Kayo Dot live was a personal failure. That was back in 2016 and I can’t ...

With the heightened drama of a Bowie-esque space opera, the interstellar terrain of prog rock and the fault lines of metal, Blasphemy, the latest concept album from New York-based Kayo Dot, rejects ...

If Mr. Mister's atmospheric ballad "Broken Wings" had been written for a proggy space opera, it might sound something like this cyberpunk slow jam. Let's go out on a very distant limb here: If Mr.

I often hear the sound of coyotes. Living in a rural neighbourhood, the little guys are often wandering around from yard to yard looking for something interesting. At night, they bawl and blubber to ...

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