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Better Know A College Radio Station: Vassar’s WVKR
The staff at Vassar’s WVKR 91.3 FM. 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....
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Album of the Day: Christian Löffler, “Mare”
“All my music is connected by a gloomy spirit, minted by a warm sincerity,” says composer Christian Löffler. “I merge all kinds of different acoustic colors to obtain this feeling.” Löffler’s music...
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Jazz Trio Mammal Hands Blend Beauty with Complexity
Mammal Hands. Photo by Simon Hunt. Animalia, the 2014 debut from jazz trio Mammal Hands, was a master class in beauty. The way the group set gorgeous melodies in the middle of a rhythmic storm...
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Talking Points on Math Jazz, Quantum Theory, and Waiting Six Years to Cry
Based in Baltimore, Talking Points is a math jazz outfit that makes stellar, complex music while maintaining an earthy, relatable atmosphere—a real feat for such heady work. Composers Daniel A. Ryan...
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On “Romantic,” Mannequin Pussy’s Marisa Dabice Becomes Her Best Self
Mannequin Pussy. Photo by Scott Troyan. Originally a duo comprised of childhood friends Marisa Dabice and Thanasi Paul, Philadelphia’s Mannequin Pussy has seen more than a few iterations over the...
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Album of the Day: Slow Attack Ensemble, “Soundscapes for the Emotional-Type...
You’d think ambient music would be the last style ever to break the fourth wall. Ambient, after all, is about dissolving into the moment, about being enveloped by pure atmosphere. Occasionally, an...
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Infinity Crush’s Intimate “Warmth Equation” is a Portrait of Death and Recovery
Caroline White. Photograph by Kierstan Ladzinski. Caroline White’s second LP as Infinity Crush, Warmth Equation, is an album that’s focused on future—specifically, the uncertainty of the future....
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Every Day is Halloween: 12 Artists Who Perform in Costume
Taraka and Nimai Larson in their costumes as Prince Rama. Photograph by Sean Lachapelle. Halloween has long been an opportunity for musicians to assume a new identity, whether taking the stage in...
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High Scores: Disasterpeace’s Horror Soundtracks and Chiptune Masterworks
A still from the game “Hyper Light Drifter.” High Scores is a monthly column in which Bandcamp profiles a video game soundtrack composer. In the second installment, Casey Jarman talks to Rich Vreeland...
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On “Consciousness,” Joy Postell Reflects on Oppression While Offering Hope
Joy Postell. Photograph by Audrey Gatewood. Shortly after graduating from high school in 2010, the singer and emcee Joy Postell left her home in Baltimore for the uncharted territory of Los Angeles....
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Album of the Day: Terry Allen, ”Lubbock (On Everything)“
The plains of the Texas Panhandle are a mythic American landscape. They haunt the novels of Cormac McCarthy and act as an unforgiving backdrop on shows like Friday Night Lights and films like Paris,...
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Quality Over Quantity: How Daupe! is Building a Hip-Hop Label That Lasts
Lawrence Lord is The Purist, producer and founder of Daupe!. Photo by Above Ground. In 2010, after close to a decade in the music industry working as a writer and producer, Lawrence Lord realized it...
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Ritual Howls: Darkness Falls on Detroit
Ritual Howls. Photo by Megan Major. In the absence of light, the world takes on an achromatic pallor. Colors are muted, if not sucked away entirely; shadows form, obscuring dark corners and creating...
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Ten Bands Who Are Shaping the New Wave of American True Metal
Original picture from David Quigley. The winner’s history of American heavy metal encompasses Sunset Strip glam, Bay Area thrash, and Florida death metal, but there’s surprisingly little of what could...
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Lido Pimienta, the High Priestess of Pop
Lido Pimienta. Photo by RuthieTitues. Lido Pimienta was a shy daydreamer in Baranquilla, Colombia, attending an arts program for gifted children, but she always knew she had a singing voice to be...
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The Confounding Story of La Gritona, Boston’s Best Kept ’90s Noise Rock Secret
La Gritona. Photo by Ryan Murphy. Unless you were living in Boston during the 1990’s, you’ve probably never heard of La Gritona, a four-piece noise rock outfit that burned brightly for a short period...
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Kevin Morby’s New Single Will Benefit Everytown for Gun Safety
Kevin Morby. Photo by Dusdin Condren. Death enters Kevin Morby’s “Beautiful Strangers” obliquely. The song opens with Morby’s oaky voice ambling its way slowly across a dry acoustic strum, singing of...
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Album of the Day: The Gospel Truth, “Jealous Fires”
The Gospel Truth came up in the same fertile Austin garage-punk scene that birthed Roky Erickson and Gerard Cosloy’s Casual Victim Pile compilations. Yet despite some superficial links—they’re on...
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Crippled Black Phoenix Rise Again
Crippled Black Phoenix. Photo by Zsolt Reti. After heralded British doom metal band Iron Monkey broke up in 1999, the band’s drummer, Justin Greaves, decided to branch out. He still played doom, but...
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Extreme-Music Pioneer Weasel Walter in Back Catalog (and Beyond)
Weasel Walter. Photo by Justina Villanueva. Weasel Walter—no-wave movement archivist and historian, free-improvising drum virtuoso and noise-rock guitarist—is lounging on his couch at home in the very...
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