No Age have always impressed us as the next-level band to evolve out of the D.I.Y. subculture. There’s their well-documented support of the community around very cool all-ages venue The Smell, which has become a kind of West Coast version of D.C.’s Dischord diaspora in terms of supporting underground art and sonics. No Age also have deep skater roots (http://altamontapparel.com/no-age-part2/), but are more of the avant-garde art-school skaters than your typical “Bro, dude!” types…

The best thing is, you can hear all this self-generated creativity in No Age’s music: on albums like last year’s landmark Nouns (and see it in Noun’s incredibly dope, Grammy-nominated deluxe high-design packaging) and the incredible lo-fi innovation of previous album, 2007’s Weirdo Rippers, the duo of Dean Spunt and Randy Randall use feedback, loops, and general deconstructionist experimentation to fragment the punk template while maintaining its urgency. Now No Age have released a free track “You’re A Target” from their upcoming e.p. Losing Feeling. It’s on par with their previous releases, and maybe even better. Opening with deeply effected guitars phasing in and out, “You’re A Target” goes all My Bloody Valentine shoegaze hazy for a while until killer Husker Du-style hooks kick in, taking the listener on a ragged rainbow thrill ride. (The Husker Du influence doesn’t seem arbitrary, either, as No Age has been jamming of late with Husker mastermind Bob Mould.) “You’re A Target” proves there’s no limit to No Age’s artistic ambition, filtered through a ramshackle aesthetic though it may be; the band is even providing a live score to the epic nature-film classic The Bear in Los Angeles and New York. Is there anything these guys can’t – or rather, won’t – do? Hope not - they’re hitting more targets than ever, and indie music is so much better for it.