Cartoon by Zachary Kanin. For more: http://nyr.kr/SGQdy8

Sasha Frere-Jones on San Francisco-based band “Tussle,” and a streaming of their new album, “Tempest”: http://nyr.kr/RujU0h

The Toronto trio METZ is rude, severe, and excellent. They make rock music, all of it loud, most of it precise without feeling checked. It’s raucous stuff, heavily indebted to music recorded for the Chicago label Tough & Go in the eighties, and recordings made in the nineties for the D.C. label Dischord. We are happy to be streaming their self-titled début album, exclusively, for one week. A few days ago, I spoke on the phone with the band’s guitarist and singer, Alex Edkins.

Click-through to hear the album, and for more from Sasha Frere-Jones on METZ: http://nyr.kr/PoslIw

Photograph by Robby Reis.

Watch a clip of LCD Soundsystem performing “Dance Yrself Clean” from “Shut Up and Play the Hits” above, and click-through to read Sasha Frere-Jones on the band and their final show and goodbye film: http://nyr.kr/LrsiJS