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The Sheffield Tape Archive is a Post-Punk Demo Treasure Trove
Molodoy live at the Limit Club, Sheffield. Photo circa 1978 by Garry Warburton. In the late 1970s, Sheffield—the former industrial powerhouse in the North of England—was a city in a state of flux. It...
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Los Campesinos! on How Mental Health Struggles Informed “Sick Scenes”
Photos by Owen Richards If a single moment is capable of defining a band, for Los Campesinos!, that moment occurs during a brief passage halfway through “I Broke Up In Amarante.” A fly-on-the-wall...
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Album of the Day: Stromboli, “Volume Uno”
Let’s just get it out of the way first: when most people in North America think of stromboli we imagine an inside-out pizza, a pocket of mozzarella cheese and meat and vegetables and a little bit of...
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The Best Metal on Bandcamp: February 2017
Historically, metal has often cast light on the ugliest parts of the human experience, and many of February’s best metal albums seem to reflect back the darkness of current events—or to confront it....
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How The Manikins Became The Biggest Band in Perth, Australia
The history of rock music is littered with bands who didn’t make it. There are the ephemeral experiments that burned up like flash paper; influential acts remembered only by genre die-hards; and...
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Celebrating the 45th Anniversary of Nick Drake’s “Pink Moon” with Artists on...
Nick Drake was the kind of musician other artists dream of being—and, in some ways, fear becoming. Largely unknown during his 26 years on this planet, Drake’s dark-yet-delicate music returned to...
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The Month in Mixtapes: February 2017
Given the massive number of hip-hop mixtapes released on Bandcamp, it’s easy to get overwhelmed. Each month, Marvin Lin will help ease you into this bounty of music by spotlighting releases by rappers...
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Adrian Sherwood & Pinch on Their New Record, “Man Vs. Sofa”
Photos by Marc Sethi On paper, the team-up of Sherwood & Pinch might seem a little too obvious. The two of them represent two fertile ends of the UK dub continuum. Pinch (Rob Ellis) is the man...
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Album of the Day: Various Artists, “Synthesize the Soul: Astro-Atlantic...
“Culture, the fruit of history, reflects at every moment the material and spiritual reality of society, of man-the-individual and of man-the-social-being, faced with conflicts which set him against...
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Wormrot Take Nothing for Granted
Wormrot Though they might not think of themselves this way, Wormrot have achieved what many of their fellow Singaporean musicians dream of. The beloved grindcore trio have the backing of an ardent...
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Album of the Day: Ahmed Malek & Flako, “The Electronic Tapes”
Dubbed “Algeria’s answer to Ennio Morricone,” composer Ahmed Malek might not have the same level of name recognition as the Italian master, but he certainly matches him in terms of output. Malek...
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Demona’s Tanza Speed Bridges the Gap Between Metal and Fashion
Metal—thrash and speed metal, in particular—has always maintained a special interplay between fashion; tight clothes, torn jeans and tops emblazoned with band logos, and the similarly tight, ripping,...
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PC Worship’s “Buried Wish” Rises From a Watery Grave
PC Worship by Wolfgang Daniel Buried Wish, the latest album from New York City avant-rock outfit PC Worship, owes its existence to the usual musical labor, but with an aqueous twist—in a sense, the...
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Album of the Day: bedwetter, “volume 1: flick your tongue against your teeth...
Just a year after his breakout release, 2012’s Mista Thug Isolation, Travis Miller, a.k.a. Lil Ugly Mane, announced his retirement. Unable to keep totally quiet, he satisfied his fans with eclectic...
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The Sound of Folk, Experimental Electronics, and Avant-Garde Music in Ireland
Roslyn Steer. Photo by Mary Kelleher. “There was a club night called Lazybird active in Dublin in the ’00s,” recalls Paul Condon, founder of the Fort Evil Fruit label. “This was the first time I recall...
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Neill Von Tally and The Last Artful, Dodgr On Their Deep Blend of “Bone Music”
Photo by Tiki In the 1950s, the U.S.S.R. cut itself off from the Western world. They were less than a decade removed from the loss of over 20 million people, more than any other country, in the...
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Colombia’s Ondatrópica Contextualize the Music of the Tropics
In the last few years, tropical themes have made a comeback in pop, with everyone from The Strokes to Diplo to Mike Posner leaning toward the equator through sounds, instrumentation and even the color...
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Popper Burns Preach to the Punk Rock Choir
The first time I saw Austin’s Popper Burns reminded me why I love punk. The band was already on stage by the time I got to the club. Guitarist Pink Lemonade was perhaps the most conventionally...
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Album of the Day: Del Paxton, “All Day, Every Day, All Night”
Del Paxton’s 2013 debut EP, Worst Summer Ever, was a bleeding-heart collection of rock songs that positioned the band at the fore of the so-called “emo revival.” Four years later, the Buffalo outfit...
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The Compulsive Weirdness of Chicago Rapper Nnamdi Ogbonnaya
For Nnamdi Ogbonnaya, being a creative weirdo is not so much defiance as it is compulsion. The Nigerian-American Chicago native has played in over a dozen bands ranging from jazz-fusion ensembles to...
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