The Math Rock Blog has turned ONE today!!
We’d like to thank each and every one of our followers for supporting us. We’re very pleased with the progress we’ve made in just one year and we hope to continue this blog for many years to come!

Pretend - Those Luminous Noises Are God
The Math Rock Blog has turned ONE today!!
We’d like to thank each and every one of our followers for supporting us. We’re very pleased with the progress we’ve made in just one year and we hope to continue this blog for many years to come!
Math rock is a rhythmically complex guitar-based style of experimental rock that emerged in the 1980s and that was very influenced by progressive rock like King Crimson, Frank Zappa, Henry Cow - and 20th century composers such as Steve Reich and John Cage. It is characterized by complex, atypical rhythmic structures (including irregular stopping and starting), angular melodies, and dissonant chords.
Whereas most rock music uses a basic 4/4 meter (however accented or syncopated), math rock frequently uses asymmetrical time signatures such as 7/8, 11/8, or 13/8, or features constantly changing meters based on various groupings of 2 and 3. This rhythmic complexity, seen as “mathematical” in character by many listeners and critics, is what gives the genre its name.
Is there anything.. ANYTHING in this world that doesn’t have math?!
Did you know there’s an entire blog dedicated to it? ;-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9J9bnzqE5M
Experimental math from Providence, RI
Get their EP for free here: http://willowri.bandcamp.com/
Thanks for the submission, horselaugh!
The Described Mouth is my next band, still forming. I set the writing/recording aside for a couple of months, and I am very happy to be back at it. This is my favorite of the demos so far, “Dreamed it —-> Saw it on the news”.
The Tracklist.
Jim Noir—Welcome commander Jamieson-
Menomena—-Wet and Rusting—
Mindflayer—Time tunnel—
Neutral milk hotel—Song against sex-
Oneida—The last act every time-
No one and the Somebodys—Speed Trap—
Parts & Labour—New Crimes—
Saltillo—A simple test—
The Convocation of—-Unlimited Outer thought—
If I Had a Lawyer, I’d Sue Him Just For Fun
Glass Mazes.