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Douglas McCarthy (Nitzer Ebb, Fixmer/McCarthy) on the Chemistry of a Perfect...
Douglas McCarthy thought he was done with the music business in the mid ’90s. Downtrodden from the endless cycles of studio recording and worldwide tours, McCarthy decided to leave music and pursue...
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Album of the Day: Girlpool, “Powerplant”
Cleo Tucker and Harmony Tividad’s debut as Girlpool, Before the World Was Big, was a punchy, brazen collection of carefully-constructed indie-pop. Their minimal instrumentation—just a guitar and...
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The Flourishing Electro Scene in the D.R.
Volt Phonic The Dominican music scene is in the middle of an electronic revival. Well, a slow revival. But as musicians and fans across the island can attest, something is happening. Clubs are...
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Revolutionary Army of the Infant Jesus on the Value of Mystery and Sacredness
Photo by Maria Aua. It feels cliché at this point to describe the music of the U.K. group Revolutionary Army of the Infant Jesus as a “shared secret,” but in the early ’90s, that’s exactly what it was....
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Electric Assault Records Lets the Metal Do the Talking
Henry Yuan went to Norway and had an epiphany. This was back in 2011, the last year that the extreme Norwegian metal festival Hole In The Sky raised its flag over the city of Bergen. Yuan was covering...
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Album of the Day: Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, “Best Troubador”
In the liner notes of his new album, Best Troubador, singer-songwriter Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, aka Will Oldham, said he was already working on a tribute to country music’s Merle Haggard before his...
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Adult Mom Navigate the Treacherous World of Intimacy
Photo by Bao Ngo. The world depicted in the songs of Adult Mom will be familiar to anyone navigating the choppy waters of intimacy. Their songs examine the fraught, sometimes traumatizing nature of...
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Joshua Abrams is a Focused Force in Jazz and Film Scoring
Photo by Mikel Avery. If Joshua Abrams is succeeding in jazz, it’s because he’s focused on three very distinct ideals: focus, continuity, and repetition. The Chicago-based bandleader has honed this...
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Barrio Lindo Builds His Own Sound, Literally
Berlin-based, Colombian-Argentine electronic musician and luthier Agustín Rivaldo, aka Barrio Lindo, speaks in quiet, measured phrases, punctuated by the occasional shy laugh. Like his music, his...
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Album of the Day: Brooklyn Youth Chorus, “Black Mountain Songs”
A heady project on paper translates to a transcendently breathtaking sonic experience on the Brooklyn Youth Chorus’ debut, Black Mountain Songs. Now in its 25th year, the Brooklyn Youth Chorus brings...
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Casey Dienel Retires White Hinterland and Discovers Herself
Photos by Brad Ogbonna Casey Dienel likes having rules. For more than a decade, the singer-songwriter has been recording lush, gauzy art-pop as White Hinterland. Each time she started writing an album,...
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Big Ups: Deerhoof’s Favorite Bands on Bandcamp
Photo by Asha Shechter Greg Saunier admits he’s a funny choice for an interview about music. For the record, the Deerhoof drummer loves the stuff—you don’t have to dig too far into his band’s...
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Oliver Lake on Black Artistry, How His Artists’ Group Changed New York’s Loft...
For the last five decades, saxophonist/composer Oliver Lake has been a leader in the worlds of improvisation and composition. As a cofounder of St. Louis’s famed Black Artists’ Group (BAG)—a part of...
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The Experimental Electronic Netherworld of Basic House
Whether making music as Basic House or running his label Opal Tapes, maverick producer Stephen Bishop has consistently charted his own path. A self-proclaimed fan of both dance music and pop, as well...
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Album of the Day: Various Artists, “Saigon Supersound, Vol. 1”
The Vietnamese artists heard on Saigon Supersound presented a problem for the Communists who rose to power in the aftermath of World War II. Citizens of Vietnam referred to the conflict as the...
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NECRONOMIDOL and New Directions in Japanese Metal
Necronomidol photos by Mari Kojima In many ways, NECRONOMIDOL look a lot like other groups in the Japanese “female idol” genre, a corner of J-Pop in which groups of young women perform chirpy pop while...
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Fazerdaze’s Sparkling Guitar Pop Finds the Balance Between Darkness and Light
The music of Amelia Murray, who records as Fazerdaze, is on its surface bright and summery. Pick any track at random from Morningside, her excellent full-length debut for Flying Nun, and you’ll be...
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The Best New Hip-Hop on Bandcamp
In our new roundup of Bandcamp releases, we spotlight a New York City wordsmith who’s all about the pure joy of rhyming, a transatlantic MC/producer collab with funk affinities, and a Detroit-based...
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Eight Bands Helping to Make San José, Costa Rica an Indie Music Paradise
Los Waldners Costa Rica is known for its biodiversity and eco-tourism, making the Central American nation a great place to visit no matter what your interests. But if you get the chance to hang out in...
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Album of the Day: The Comet is Coming, “Death To The Planet”
Earth is dying, stewing in its own waste. The sky is an ominous shade of red, a deep crimson-like hue, foretelling our imminent doom. Beneath it, with mere minutes to live, we dance gleefully to the...
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