After 27 years, Al Jourgensen is putting Ministry to rest. Jourgensen, perhaps America's most legendary name in industrial rock, moved to Texas during the 1990s but began his career in Chicago.

Four years after releasing "Whatever Happened to P.J. Soles," Zion natives Local H return to the scene with "12 Angry Months," a bloody, yearlong homage to nasty breakups that tracks a soup-to-nuts farewell from dividing property and glimpsing the ex's new beau to epic fights and ultimate closure.

One of the most gratifying, semi-unspoken parts about independent music is discovering bands that few people among the radio-listening public can identify and rolling those obscure musicians' names into our vernacular like a special, indie-rock secret language.

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