Clipping’s  Dead Channel Sky Plus, the digital deluxe edition of the group’s Cyberpunk-inspired Hip-Hop project originally released earlier this year, is available today on all streaming services worldwide on Sub Pop.
 
Dead Channel Sky Plus expands and reorders the original 20-song sequence. The album is now 24 tracks long and includes the new songs “Night of Heaven (feat. Counterfeit Madison and Kid Koala),” “Forever War,” “Hard-Eyes,” and today’s offering, the official video “Mirrorshades, Pt. 1,” directed by Iddo Goldberg.
 
The new Max Headroom-inspired visual stars the group, with Daveed Diggs taking the lead as the titular character. Goldberg offers this, “It’s easy to shut the world out with our Mirrorshades. Maybe we should celebrate our similarities and not our differences. Through her vulnerabilities, LYRA discovers that she’s more like most of us than she thought she was.” Watch now.

Dead Channel Sky Plus was produced and mixed by Clipping and Steve Kaplan and mastered by Levi Seitz at Black Belt Mastering.
 
Clipping’s Dead Channel Sky is also available on CD/2xLP/DSPs from Sub Pop. LP purchases from megamart.subpop.com (US) and Mega Mart Europe (UK/EU), your local record store, and at Clipping’s live shows will receive the limited Loser edition vinyl on Emerald/Forest Green Ghostly Mashup (North America) and Neon Pink (UK/Europe). The Dead Channel Sky album art was created by Designers Republic.
 
Clipping previously announced UK/EU tour dates in support of Dead Channel Sky Plus are underway, with a show tonight, Friday September 19th in Brussels, BE at Botanique and and currently runs through Wednesday, September 24th, in Glasgow, UK, at The Garage.
 
Upon their return to the US, Clipping has scheduled two festival appearances: Chicago, IL’s COLD WAVES XIII Festival (Sep. 27th) and Cincinnati, OH’s  Talk Low Fest (Sep. 28th). Please find a complete list of dates below.
 

There’s trouble in the monkey house in the primal official video for Six Finger Satellite’s “Simian Fever (2025 Remaster),” the Severe Exposure: Deluxe Edition album highlight, which you can watch now at YouTube. The new visual, which mixes animation and live action footage, was directed by Christy Karacas and Luca Depardon.
 
Severe Exposure: Deluxe Edition, the newly remastered and expanded 30th anniversary version of the group’s exhilarating 2nd album, is available today worldwide from Sub Pop.
 
The Wire, in its recent review of the album, said, ”Six Finger Satellite were ruthless operators. After signing to Sub Pop for Weapon in 1992, they took their advance and began building a studio - The Parlour - in their home base of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, just outside of Providence. Following that debut EP, but before construction was completed on The Parlour, the hard-rocking quintet recorded their first album, 1993’s The Pigeon Is The Most Popular Bird, with Shellac’s Bob Weston. On that sprawling work, Six Finger Satellite (6FS) switched between agitated post-punk that expertly aped The Pop Group, Gang Of Four, and The Birthday Party, and instrumentals featuring analogue synthesizers that functioned like interstitial movements between the splenetic aggressiveness of the songs. 6FS drew upon the previous generation of mutated rock (Devo, Chrome, Big Black) and became harbingers of mutants yet to come (Arab On Radar, The VSS, Men’s Recovery Project). They had few contemporaries outside of Ohio’s avant-garde androids Brainiac.
 
“With ten songs in 35 minutes, there is not an ounce of excess on Severe Exposure, which makes the generous portion of bonus tracks so welcome.  This intensely creative period for 6FS is buttressed by nearly an hour of digital extras that include rarities, remixes, live takes and studio experiments. “Spooks/So Lonely” is like synth punk Neubauten, while “Mistaken Street” harnesses the jaunty robotics of Palais Schaumburg.  Live staple “Man Behind The Glasses” makes an appearance, as does “Massive Cocaine Seizure”/”Human Operator” single…Six Finger Satellite have always been severely underrated, but three decades on, the innovative nature of their music cannot be overstated (see The Wire Issue 500, September 2025).”
 
In addition to the original album, Severe Exposure: Deluxe Edition includes a bonus 12” of the 1994 Machine Cuisine EP, and a download of 17 additional songs, including rare singles (like 1996’s “Massive Cocaine Seizure”), compilation tracks, and unreleased material (see “Parlour Games” Official Video). All the material has been freshly mastered by JJ Golden, and the vinyl is packaged in a lovely slipcase with individual jackets for each LP.
 
Formed in 1990 in Providence by J. Ryan (singer/keyboards), John MacLean (guitar), Peter Phillips (guitar), Chris Dixon (bass), and Rick Pelletier (drums), Six Finger Satellite quickly signed to Sub Pop for the Weapon EP. Shortly thereafter, they released their landmark 1993 debut, The Pigeon Is the Most Popular Bird, and then, in 1995, Severe Exposure.
 
Severe Exposure would go on to become Six Finger Satellite’s best-selling album to date.
 
Severe Exposure foreshadowed the early ‘00s revival of post-punk and synth-oriented rock by adding synths to the band’s caustic, tense post-punk sound. All Music called the album, “Herky-jerky pandemonium rife with buzzing guitars and spooky, deliberately melodramatic synth and Moog lines, Severe Exposure is filled with tight, paranoid riffs that fulfills the deepest wish of anyone who ever wanted to find out what the unholy progeny of Big Black and Devo would sound like.” Trouser Press wrote that “‘Rabies (Baby’s Got The)’ and ‘Simian Fever’ are animal aggressive and messy, while sharing the synthetic digitone lusts of new wave.” The SF Weekly praised it as “a party record, the kind you slip on at that inevitable point when you want ‘certain people’ to head home.” Chunklet doubles down on the album’s festive vibe: “Severe Exposure is a guaranteed party…”

Six Finger Satellite
Severe Exposure: 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
 
1. Bad Comrade
2. Parlour Games
3. White Queen to Black Night
4. Pulling a Train
5. Simian Fever
6. Cock Fight
7. Dark Companion
8. Where Humans Go
9. Rabies (Baby’s Got The)
10. Board the Bus
11. Love (Via Machine)
12. Blue Melodica
13. The Magic Bus
14. Hans Pocketwatch
15. The Well-Tempered Monkey
16. Like to Get to Know You
17. The Greek Arts
18. White Temples
19. Untitled Instrumental*
20. Fisher of Men*
21. 2MuchKungFu*
22. EV365a*
23. kgbg*
24. Rabies (Baby’s Got The) dub*
25. Mistaken Street*
26. Swing Alone*
27. Spooks/So Lonely*
28. Shadows Moving*
29. Trigger Mac*
30. Man Behind the Glasses*
31. War Crimes*
32. Dark Companion (7” Version)*
33. If I Tried*
34. Massive Cocaine Seizure*
35. Human Operator*
*Digital download bonus tracks
 

Today, September 12th, Guerilla Toss has released their latest long-player, You’re Weird Now, available worldwide on CD/LP/Digitally from Sub Pop.
 
With You’re Weird Now, Guerilla Toss reclaim the word “weird” for everyone brave enough to let their freak flag fly and stay true to their artistic vision, no matter what—a way riskier act than it’s ever given credit for, and one that requires a certain amount of serene self-confidence that it takes time and effort to cultivate and sustain.
 
While in Vermont recording their new full-length album, frontwoman Kassie Carlson would prepare what she called ‘punk lunch’: a communal meal made by raiding the studio fridge for whatever was left and assembling a sandwich from the most random ingredients imaginable.
 
Regularly joining punk lunch were two legends from their own corners of the weird music world: Stephen Malkmus (Pavement, The Jicks) and Trey Anastasio, Phish guitarist and owner of The Barn, the recording studio where Guerilla Toss made You’re Weird Now, with Malkmus in the producer’s seat. Also at the table were engineer Bryce Goggin, who has worked with Malkmus since Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, and Ben Collette, Phish’s longtime engineer at The Barn.
 
While the idea of the guy from Phish and the guy from Pavement sitting around with Guerilla Toss, congenially assembling sandwiches from random foodstuffs dug up from the depths of a studio fridge, might seem absurd, it also makes total sense. Because really, if there’s any band that serves as the natural bridge between slacker punks who saw Pavement way before you did, wild-eyed wooks who’ve seen Phish more times than you ever will, and even the eccentrics in ’90s drip following former GT tourmates Primus—it’s Guerilla Toss. A band so imaginative and unapologetically themselves, they’re basically the real-life manifestation of a utopian, post-snob world where all musical ideas are worthy of expression and everyone is welcome.
 
Beginning tonight, Guerilla Toss will embark on a 28-date North American run. This tour includes standout dates in Chicago, Minneapolis, Seattle, Los Angeles, Austin, and Brooklyn, culminating in Boston, MA, on October 19. See below for a complete tour routing.

 
Fri. Sep. 12 - Bethel, NY - Bethel Woods Center for the Arts
Sat. Sep. 13 -  Kingston, NY - Tubby’s
Tue. Sep. 16 - Buffalo, NY - Nietzsche’s
Wed. Sep. 17 - Lakewood, OH, Mahall’s
Thu. Sep. 18 - Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle
Fri. Sep. 19 - Milwaukee, WI - Cactus Club
Sat. Sep. 20 - Davenport, IA - Raccoon Motel
Sun. Sep. 21 - Minneapolis, MN - 7th St. Entry
Thu. Sep. 25 - Seattle, WA - Vera Project
Fri. Sep. 26 - Portland, OR - Mississippi Studios
Sat. Sep. 27 - Boise, ID - Shrine Basement
Sun. Sep. 28 - Reno, NV - Holland Project
Wed. Oct. 01 - San Francisco, CA - Chapel
Thu. Oct. 02 - Los Angeles, CA - Lodge Room
Fri. Oct. 03 - San Diego, CA - Casbah
Sat. Oct. 04 - Phoenix, AZ - Linger Longer Lounge
Sun. Oct. 05 - Tucson, AZ - Club Congress
Tue. Oct. 07 - Denton, TX - Rubber Gloves Showroom
Wed. Oct. 08 - Austin, TX - Hotel Vegas
Thu. Oct. 09 - Houston, TX - White Oak Music Hall
Fri. Oct. 10 - New Orleans, LA - No Dice
Sat. Oct. 11 - Atlanta, GA - Aisle 5
Sun. Oct. 12 - Nashville, TN - Blue Room @ Third Man Records
Tue. Oct. 14 - Washington, DC - DC 9
Thu. Oct. 16 - Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn Bowl
Fri. Oct. 17 - Philadelphia, PA - Johnny B’s
Sat. Oct. 18 - Burlington, VT - Foam
Sun. Oct. 19 - Boston, MA - Crystal Ballroom
 
 
What people are saying about Guerilla Toss:
 
“…with every album, they tease and tickle well-constructed songs within which friendly melodies wriggle about.” - Arts Desk
 
“Red Flag to Angry Bull…serves up their signature playful ferocity and catchy hooks.” - [“Red Flag to Angry Bull”] Stereoboard
 
“It’s the work of a band fully in control, bursting with bizarro majesty as it bounces toward anthem status.” -
[“Red Flag to Angry Bull”] Stereogum
 
”The boisterous, synth-heavy jam takes elements of math rock and art pop and combines them into an overwhelming stimuli of catchy melodies and delirious interludes.” - [“Life’s a Zoo”] FLOOD
 
”Very cool tune.” - [“Red Flag to Angry Bull”] Deb Grant, BBC 6 Music
 
“US outfit offer up a wonderfully rich and infectious post-punk stunner.” -  [“Psychosis Is Just a Number”] Mystic Sons
 
“‘Red Flag To Angry Bull’ is witty, playful, and catchy” -
[“Red Flag to Angry Bull”] Clash
 
“freakily delightful new single” -
[“Red Flag to Angry Bull”] Our Culture Mag