Is that jack-o-lantern laughing at your shirt? It is okay, the D. Rider debut album "Mother of Curses" knits your mind a sweater. Aaah, that's better, a little itchy, but you'll get used to it. Rock and roll presentation by Todd Rittmann, Andrea Faught, Noah tabakin, and a special friend. Okay virus, do your stuff.

Almost forgot to mention horseback riding on the moon with your "cool" aunt.

What do you get when you cross the prolific talents of Japan's 'Godfather of Noise' with the Midwest's genre-defying juggernaut Racebannon? Twelve inches of unrefined fury so severe that bandages and gauze pads should be supplied with each record. Merzbow takes Racebannon's celebrated rock-opera 'Satan's Kickin' Yr Dick In' and reshapes it into twenty minutes of stunning auditory fierceness. Another delicacy for Merzbow and Racebannon fans alike to savor.

Miracle Condition is a trio featuring U.S. Maple guitarist Mark Shippy and drummer Pat Samson, with Matt Carson (Ph.D. in Bioinformatics) on guitar and vocals. The group formed in late 2006 and quickly morphed their more experimental leanings into their own brand of cinematic, illustrative spacegaze. Where U.S. Maple was known for deconstructing rock music, Miracle Condition traffics those images seen in the moments between sleeping and waking, pushing the sonic envelope into the dream world. Layers of guitar, sheets of percussion and fragile, glass-like voices from Shippy and Carson hint at elements of the psychedelic and shoegaze genres. In the live setting Miracle Condition is shatteringly loud - the droning interrupted by Samson's uniquely expressive drum patterns. With their forthcoming release on the Tizona label on November 24 2009. Miracle Condition will undoubtedly command attention from anyone within earshot.

Midway between a deleted scene from River's Edge and the resurrection of Frankenstein to unleash havoc upon the villagers that put him under, the Racebannon sound is one of many disparate influences that blend seamlessly into one lethal cocktail of hatred and aggression, draped in a terecloth of pure molten rock that is as unforgiving as it is pulse-quickening. Indie rock? No. Metal? No. Hardcore? No. Noise core? No. Racebannon? Yes. It really is that simple. Harsh enough for any mosh pit, yet cerebral enough for the art palate, Racebannon attack with the heave and punch the end times dictate while still keeping things fresh and original. Love or hate, there is no ignoring the 12 gauge barrage of riffs, screams, and drums.

Chicago-based sound artist J.R. Robinson has been creating live, ambient tonefields in museums around the US and Europe over the past two years-including the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the Pompidou Center in Paris, and The Art Center Berlin. Robinson has injected these recordings into collaborations with some like-minded heavy hitters from the noise, post-rock and jazz worlds such as David Yow (Jesus Lizard/Scratch Acid), Mark Shippy & Pat Samson (US Maple), Azita Youssefi, John Herndon & Jeff Parker (Tortoise), Keefe Jackson, Fred Lonberg-Holm and Ken Vandermark. The result (dubbed Wrekmeister Harmonies), is a distinctive hybrid of sound art and avant-garde musics, evoking the essences & influences of masterworks like Joe McPhee's Nation Time, Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music and the sound collages of Stockhausen.