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Album of the Day: Palehorse, “Looking Wet in Public”
In a climate of non-specific subgenres and tonal styles, there’s a lot to be said about Palehorse’s decision to drop a straight-up metal LP. The group’s new album, Looking Wet in Public, is a...
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Biscuits for Your Outside Man: Food and the Piedmont Blues Tradition
Algia Mae Hinton. Photo by Ally–Jane Grossan The song “Biscuits for Your Outside Man” has a simple premise: only please the man who treats you right. Cook cornbread—the cheap, everyday bread—for your...
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Edward Sharpe and Community Music’s Fair Trade Label Policy
“We’re at a stage culturally where we really need a major re-acculturation, and to re-appropriate our right to earn a living through music.” —Alex Ebert It’s no secret that it’s becoming harder by the...
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Art Gallery: Ryan Nelson’s D.C. Punk Aesthetic
“I’m sick to death of looking at my art. I’m proud of it, but I feel like I’m drowning in it.”—Ryan Nelson If you have any level of familiarity with the D.C. punk and indie rock scene, you’ve seen...
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Sumac Expand and Explore on “What One Becomes”
“I think being from an area where there was so much open land, and such a deep awareness of the environment also carried over into the music.”—Aaron Turner Even after all the years he’s spent in...
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Muscle & Marrow Cut to the Quick on “Love”
photo by Marilia Maschion “I really love the archetype of the female witch, or crazy madwoman, because madness is much more empowering than sadness.”—Kira Clark Fear of death, and depression resulting...
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Behind the Scenes With Downtown Boys
Anyone who’s seen Downtown Boys knows that the Providence political punk collective are a ball of white light on stage, bringing the kind of crackling energy that spurs people not just to dance, but to...
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The Rare Recordings of Pauline Oliveros, Jerome Rothenberg and More
New Wilderness Audiographics, a US-based label founded by 75-year-old composer/poet Charlie Morrow, hasn’t released music for over three decades, but the label has just unloaded digital versions of 40...
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The Julie Ruin Reset and Resist
“I feel like every time we have a conversation about sexism in the industry, that’s the sound of my songs being eaten by mice.”—Kathleen Hanna The Julie Ruin may have started as a self-produced solo...
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Meet ÌFÉ, Puerto Rico’s Spiritual DJ Wunderkind
Since his arrival in Puerto Rico in the late ’90s, Otura Mun has become one of the pillars of the island’s independent music scene. He’s worn many hats, first as dancehall selector DJ Nature, then as...
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Album of the Day: Lindstrøm, “Windings”
Hans-Peter Lindstrøm may not be the product of a bygone moment, but the scarcity of his output in the last few years—aside from the stray single and remix—kind of made him seem like one. Talking about...
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Meet Your New Favorite Band: Failed Flowers
Fred Thomas knows what it means to be prolific. The Michigan singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist’s best-known band, Saturday Looks Good to Me, has spoiled its following with more than 20...
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Album of the Day: Terry, “Terry HQ”
Droll and smart, gleamingly melodic with seemingly little effort, and attuned to post-punk past but not in thrall to it—Terry’s debut delivers on the foursome’s pedigree, which includes Australian...
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How It All Stax Up: Charting the Rise of Neo-Classic Soul
Sharon Jones. Photo by Dean Reinford “I certainly didn’t feel that I was part of a movement when I started.”—Eli “Paperboy” Reed There’s a current crop of soul singers whose work feels more akin to...
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The Extraordinary Orchestral Techno of Suokas’s “The New Cycle”
photo by Andrei Ludin I still savor my freedom of incompetence. I want to make the unpredictable result for myself without any mental patterns and rules.” —Sergey Suokas Blurring the edges between...
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Premiere: White Violet’s “Ages Vol. 2”
Though Nashville duo White Violet already had a pair of full-lengths to their name, when it came time to release new material, they decided to try something different. Growing bored of the...
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How Lina Tullgren Went From Classical to Bluegrass to Captured Tracks
Photo by Mel Taing It would be easy to romanticize twentysomething Lina Tullgren’s bohemian New England seaside youth. Her mom is a classical flautist with a master’s in Baroque theory; her dad is a...
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Marisa Anderson’s Imaginary Sci-Fi Western Soundtrack
photo by Jodi Darby “The songs that I chose and the way I presented them—it’s about war, violence, institutional power, and how that affects people.” —Marisa Anderson Marisa Anderson doesn’t seem...
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David J Brings His Music to Fans’ Homes
“Sometimes I’ll play for 25 people, and I’ve had a more satisfying experience than when I’ve played for 28,000.”—David J David J has spent more than half of his lifetime as a member of two alt-culture...
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Album of the Day: Lady Pills, “Despite”
Near the end of Despite, the debut album from Boston’s Lady Pills, comes “Eat Them,” a quick, lo-fi punk song that rejects misogyny with misandrist cannibalism. The suggestive driving hook, “I’m sick...
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