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Seven Berlin Bands Worth Hearing Right Now
From the left: Laisse-Moi, Levin Goes Lightly, Slow Steve, and Roosevelt. Berlin is perhaps best known as the home of electronic dance music, but there’s much more to the city’s musical landscape....
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The Summer in Jazz Releases
Jazz in 2016 is fractured, diverse, and varied—which is what you’d expect from a genre that’s evolved over the course of generations. Even the uncountable sub-genres of bop, post-bop, chamber jazz,...
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Album of the Day: clipping., “Splendor and Misery”
“Oblivion is preferable to white supremacy, patriarchy and capitalism.” That’s what clipping. producer William Hutson told Red Bull Music Academy earlier this month. On Splendor & Misery,...
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The Bloom’s Not Off: Jack Rose in Remembrance and Retrospect
Jack Rose. Photo by Sam Erickson. Guitarist Jack Rose had been playing music for decades when he passed away in 2009 at age 39—but in some ways it felt like he was just getting started. After gaining...
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Moddi Explores Each Track of His Politically Charged New Album “Unsongs”
Pål Moddi Knutsen. Photo by Jørgen Nordby. As Pål Moddi Knutsen (known simply as Moddi) explains it, it was never his intention to become a political musician. Until Unsongs the Norwegian...
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Remi’s Everyman Anthems Rule Australian Hip-Hop
Producer Sensible J and Remi Kolawole. “And now blow your money / there goes a hundred,” Remi Kolawole repeats on “Substance Therapy.” With its heavy-hitting electronic production, the song sounds,...
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Escaping Reality: the Iconography of Vaporwave
Every month, Simon Chandler offers insight into the ever expanding and changing genre of vaporwave. Vaporwave is a strange and singular genre. Not just because many of its most celebrated albums...
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Album of the Day: 蜃気楼MIRAGE & waterfront dining,“Songs for Lovers”
Songs for Lovers irreverently presents its oily romance as an illusion. The vaporwave producers waterfront dining and 蜃気楼MIRAGE have banded together to release a sumptuous feast of gooey love themes....
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Angel Olsen, Down to Earth
Angel Olsen. Photo by Jacob Biba for Bandcamp. I first met Angel Olsen in the summer of 2012 at a house party thrown by one of our mutual friends. We sat out on the back porch for an hour or two,...
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Wrekmeister Harmonies on the Harrowing Inspiration for Their New Record
J.R. Robinson, frontmane of Wrekmeister Harmonies. Photo by Katie Hovland. When it comes to writing music, J.R. Robinson doesn’t just sit down and see where his thoughts lead him. The Wrekmeister...
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PWR BTTM on Gender Identity and the Power of Going Shopping
PWR BTTM. Photo by Ebru Yildiz. Formed by two classmates at Bard College, PWR BTTM initially scan as a pretty standard rock band. They write tight, hooky songs using basic instrumentation—guitar,...
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The Merch Table: September 2016
Every month, The Merch Table brings you the best and most bonkers merch you can find on Bandcamp. We commend bands and labels who get a little creative and think outside the tote bag. Whether it’s a...
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Album of the Day: MNDSGN, “Body Wash”
If Ringgo Ancheta had a superpower, it would most likely be the ability to transform himself into musical vibrations. Recording under the name MNDSGN (pronounced “mind design”), his personality seems...
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Art Gallery: The City and the Cosmos Through Michael D. Hall’s “Specs”
Michael D. Hall. Photo by Judson Felder. Rapper, producer, artist, and Seattle native Michael D. Hall spent most of his early life on the streets of his city. Growing up in the late ’70s and early...
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Not K-Pop: A Guide to the Emerging Electropop Scene in Korea
From the left: Neon Bunny, Oohyo, Cabinett, and Oh Hee Jung. Earlier this year, Seoul synth-pop artist Neon Bunny embarked on a tour that took her to Austin, Texas for South By Southwest and a jaunt...
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Album of the Day: Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Suzanne Ciani, “Sunergy”
When Suzanne Ciani moved to Bolinas, California, back in 1992, many of Silicon Valley’s billionaires still had babysitters and Al Gore was just starting to get attention for attacking the first Bush...
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Introducing: Oshwa
Alicia Walter. Photo by Johnny Fabrizio. Oshwa’s new album, I We You Me, is complex, heady alt-pop, full of careful string arrangements and moments of math-rock complexity. It’s also undeniably fun,...
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Better Know a College Radio Station: Calgary’s CJSW
For many obsessive fans who grew up in the pre-Internet era, a passion for music was sparked in the dingy basements and dark booths of college radio stations. Despite sound boards that are decades out...
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Dublin’s All City Label Delivers Dance and Hip-Hop on Their Own Terms
When a record label sets up its HQ far away from any of the global centers of music, it forces them to adapt in very specific ways.To hear Olan O’Brien—owner of Dublin’s All City Records—tell it,...
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Snake Handling, Black Metal, and Ancient Appalachia: The Music of Paul Ravenwood
Paul Ravenwood. Paul Ravenwood is a living piece of American history, a man with a connection to both turn of the century America and the kind of small Appalachian farming communities that feel like...
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