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Joyce Manor Grow Up
Joyce Manor. Photo by Dan Monick. “Well, Joyce Manor is over,” says guitarist and songwriter Barry Johnson, just a few weeks before the release of the pop punk outfit’s fourth full-length Cody. He’s...
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How Hearing Loss Helped L’Orange Refocus His Career
L’Orange. Photo by Seiji Inouye. How does a musician still create when their ability to hear is impaired? Nashville producer L’Orange is finding out. Over the past year, he’s undergone two major ear...
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Death Is Not The End Unearths Lost Gospel and Blues Treasures
Luke Owen These days, it’s not hard to make anything old sound new again. With digital technology leading to greater fidelity in audio recordings, it’s easy to make a dusty, old blues recording sound...
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Teksti-TV 666 Prove That Five Guitars are Better than One
Teksti-TV 666. Photo by Markus Paajala. Teksti-TV 666 may not be the first band to boast five (at times even six) guitarists, but there’s no need to brace yourself for some kind of deafeningly...
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Beats Antique on Recording “Shadowbox” in Moscow, London, and Tel Aviv
For over a decade, the Bay Area trio Beats Antique has remained committed to the concept implicit in their name. Their compositions consistently blend a dazzling mix of far-flung styles—often from...
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Album of the Day: Various Artists, “In Case You Missed It: 15 Years Of Dualtone”
Even if the name Dualtone Records doesn’t ring a bell, chances are you’ve at least heard one of the label’s signees. Artists like The Lumineers, Shakey Graves, Langhorne Slim, and Delta Spirit have...
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Pac Div Rapper Like Goes Solo and Expands His Horizons
Like. Photo by Taylor Hotter. In 2008, everyman rap trio Pac Div was on a short path to becoming hip-hop’s Next Big Thing. The group was signed to Universal Motown, because they reminded...
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Mykki Blanco Rips Up the Rule Book
Mykki Blanco. Photo by Julia Burlingham. After years of shapeshifting and self-sacrifice in the name of performance, Mykki Blanco (aka Michael Quattlebaum, Jr.) has released a potent debut in Mykki....
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DVA on Sci-Fi Sounds, Emotional Technology, and Music to Play in the Dark
DVA [Hi:Emotions]. Photo by Sarah Ginn. Leon Smart—aka DVA, Scratcha, Scratcha DVA, Soule:Power, and most recently DVA [Hi:Emotions]—isn’t old, but he’s already been around the block and back in...
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Talking With Aleksandra Vrebalov About Music for Architecture and Composing...
The Sea Ranch is a planned community on the coastline of Sonoma County, California, with a population of fewer than 1500. The unincorporated, 16.2 square mile-area was designed by architect Al Boeke...
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Album of the Day: Christopher Tignor, “Along a Vanishing Plane”
Much of Along A Vanishing Plane—the latest album of emotional, cinematic instrumentals by multi-faceted multi-instrumentalist Christopher Tignor—feels like music for meditation. The dusty sweep of his...
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“It’s The Sex Pistols Meets Pérez Prado”: Inside Orkesta Mendoza’s Riotous...
Orkesta Mendoza. Photo by Josh Harrison. Orkesta Mendoza’s adventurous second record ¡Vamos A Guarachar! paints a vivid portrait of Latin American folklore. It takes listeners on a celebratory...
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Lotus Thief Draw From Ancient Texts to Create Dark Spiritual Epics
Lotus Thief. Photo by Hemali Zaveri. A brief listen to Gramarye, the second album by San Francisco-based Lotus Thief, reveals an abundance of both conceptual and compositional artistry. Consisting of...
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Aaron Abernathy’s Heartfelt Soul is a Family Affair
Aaron Abernathy. Photo by Jati Lindsay. Over the past decade, Washington D.C. musician Aaron Abernathy has shored up a rock-solid reputation. “He’s unapologetically funky and unapologetically black,”...
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Album of the Day: Equip, “I Dreamed of a Palace in the Sky”
Equip may be a new artist to both Dream Catalogue and the vaporwave scene in general, yet his I Dreamed of a Palace in the Sky sounds comfortingly familiar. The album has an almost classic vaporwave...
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Best of Bandcamp Jazz: September 2016
Nothing in this list is straight-ahead. Of the 18 recommended September releases, not one mirrors the classic jazz sound of the 1960s, but they are part of a lineage. The deep lines of blues and bop...
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A Guide to Bill Laswell and Axiom
Bassist and producer Bill Laswell was pretty much a one-man industry in the 1980s and 1990s. He first came to prominence working on albums like Brian Eno’s On Land and Eno’s collaboration with David...
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The Electronic Experimentations of Syrinx
Syrinx. Photo by Bart Schoales. The short-lived Toronto band Syrinx didn’t fit in anywhere, musically. That fact becomes abundantly clear listening to Tumblers From the Vault, RVNG INTL’s new...
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Darcy James Argue’s Jazz Odyssey Through Present-Day Conspiracy Theories
Darcy James Argue. Photo by Lindsay Beyerstein. When Darcy James Argue chose U.S. conspiracy theories as the subject of his multimedia extravaganza for Brooklyn Academy of Music’s 2015 Next Wave...
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Album of the Day: Goat, “Requiem”
What’s your relationship with 21st century globalization, and the way our current all-access-all-the-time media flattens context, distinction, and history? Do you retreat? Partition? Digest as much...
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