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Album of the Day: Cloud Caverns, “Holy Gloom”
There’s complication in every aspect of Holy Gloom, the new album from Cloud Caverns. The group combines progressive rock, experimental music, and folk for a result that’s warm and immediate. Holy...
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Art Gallery: Leslie Stein’s Autobiographical Comics
Leslie Stein. Photo by David Black. The joys, tedium, and indignities of being a working musician are well known to cartoonist Leslie Stein, accomplished guitarist and vocalist for Brooklyn-based...
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The Personal Politics of Anika’s New Project, Exploded View
Anika Henderson with Hugo Quezada, Hector Melgarejo, and Martin Thulin. Photo by Andrea Martínez So far, the path of German-English singer and political journalist Anika Henderson has been anything...
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Terminal Consumption: The Best Punk on Bandcamp, August 2016
In Terminal Consumption, Sam Lefebvre looks to the margins of punk and hardcore for signs of life. This month, the scope is international. Recently released essentials include the latest from the...
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Ed Balloon’s Slow and Steady Rise
Ed Balloon. Ed Balloon is a Boston-based alternative R&B artist whose music moves in unlikely directions, incorporating everything from jazz to funk to plaintive electronic music. After releasing...
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Album of the Day: Thalia Zedek, “Eve”
Thalia Zedek has been performing and releasing music for well over three decades now, both in rock groups (Uzi, Live Skull, Come) and as a solo artist. On her latest solo work, Eve, Zedek’s throaty,...
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The Enduring Influence of H.P. Lovecraft on Extreme Music
From the left: Vision Bleak, Necronomicon, Azathoth, and Hod. In the blackened pages of the most gripping horror fiction, unspeakable atrocities await the unsuspecting, and ghastly terrors befall even...
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Premiere: Harm Wulf, “Hijrah”
George Hirsch. George Hirsch is starting to get comfortable with discomfort. The Blacklisted frontman has been in transition—he moved, not that long ago, from Philadelphia to Chicago, and he’s been...
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Exploring the Fascinating Hidden World of the Tokyo Indie Scene
World’s End Girlfriend from Virgin Babylon Records playing a live show. It was July 2015 and Yasuhiko Fukuzono, the owner of Tokyo-based label Flau had a lot on his mind. While the label, which he had...
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Label Profile: Fresh Selects’ Rousing, Soulful Beats
Fresh Selects, the brainchild of Kenny Fresh, is a forward-thinking record label that’s home to a universe of genres. What started as a taste-making blog in 2008 became a record label in 2013, and...
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Album of the Day: Pill, “Convenience”
“New York City during the 1970s was a beautiful, ravaged slag—impoverished and neglected after suffering from decades of abuse and battery,” Lydia Lunch writes in the foreword to No Wave: Post-Punk,...
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P.K. 14’s Foundational Place in the Chinese Indie Rock Scene
P.K. 14 Ask singer/producer Yang Haisong to talk about his most famous band—P.K. 14, who are now approaching two decades together—and the first answer that comes back is full of gentle astonishment....
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9 Artists to Check Out at the 2016 Afropunk Festival
From the left: Sate, Sango, Downtown Boys, and In The Whale. Conceived as a continuation of the scenes documented in the 2003 cult film, Afropunk, the first Afropunk Festival took place in Brooklyn in...
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Sad City Makes His Life Difficult On Purpose
Gary Caruth. Working on your own can be tedious. But if you’re an artist making electronic music, you often don’t have a choice. For Glasgow producer Sad City, a.k.a. Gary Caruth, isolation only...
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What’s Your Day Job?: Locrian
Terence Hannum performing with Locrian. To call Terence Hannum “prolific” or a “polymath” is like calling a hurricane “windy.” Although best known as a founder of the acclaimed avant black metal band...
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Sharon Van Etten Shares “Not Myself”; Proceeds to Benefit Everytown for Gun...
Sharon Van Etten. Photo by Miche Williams Sharon Van Etten was at home with her family in New Jersey when the horrifying news of the shooting at Orlando’s Pulse Nightclub occurred. Distraught, she...
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Album of the Day: Roosevelt, “Roosevelt”
We’ve all heard the adage about timing trumping talent, but if Roosevelt is any indication, some people can stop the clock and make their own luck. Cologne-based producer and DJ Marius Lauber chose...
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Nathan Bowles’ Banjo Affinities
Nathan Bowles. Photo by Brad Bunyea It’s hard to mention the banjo without conjuring up images of old-time Appalachian bluegrass musicians on their porches, liquor in Mason jars at their feet. While...
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Music of the Spectacle: Alienation, Irony and the Politics of Vaporwave
Superficially, the politics of vaporwave isn’t really politics. With such canonical records as Floral Shoppe, Nu.wav Hallucinations and Deep Fantasy evoking a world gone numb with consumerism, the...
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Album of the Day: Various Artists, “The Land (Music from the Motion Picture)”
As skater culture has spread from its suburban-Cali pool-carver origins to international inner-city street style, the accompanying soundtrack has shifted along with it. Nowadays, it feels more closely...
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