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How Brutus Went From Refused Tribute Band to Reinventing Punk
Photo by Eva Vlonk. “Normally when you start a band, you say, ‘I want to play a metal band,’ and you just find friends who want to play thrash metal,” says Peter Mulders, the bassist for the Belgian...
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How B-boy Culture Directly Inspired Drum & Bass: Defrostatica’s Global Homage
Hip-hop has influenced everything from politics to pop songs in the nearly 50 years of its existence, and continues to provide a springboard for fresh ideas, fusions, genres, and artforms—but one...
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Moniquea’s New Album Blurs The Line Between Funk and New Wave
Growing up in the era of ‘80s funk had a profound effect on the California singer Moniquea. Being surrounded by the music of Prince and The S.O.S. Band—as well as the musicians in her own family—not...
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Ka5sh Makes Their Own Hip-Hop Mythos
Barring extraordinary connections (and money), the rise to celebrity plays out more slowly in real life than in the rapid-cut montages of aspirational biopics. Whenever Ka5sh walks around downtown Los...
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Album of the Day: Creation Rebel, “Vibrations 1978-1982”
The music of Creation Rebel has featured some of reggae’s greatest singers and players, but it’s best understood as a vehicle for the creativity of one man: Adrian Sherwood. Creation Rebel came into...
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Lord RAJA Is Still Searching For The Perfect Loop
Genre-crossing producer Chester Raj Anand (aka Lord RAJA) named his latest EP Amadeus because he believes people should revere loops the way they respect the work of Mozart. The way he explains it,...
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Llorona Records’ Forward-Thinking Vision for Colombian Roots Music
Eddy Johana Gómez describes her brother, Diego, as a shy “mouse in the studio” who also happens to be a talented musician and producer. As for herself, an arts administrator with studies in cultural...
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Album of the Day: Peaking Lights, “The Fifth State of Consciousness”
Produced over two years in Peaking Lights’ own Dreamfuzz studio in L.A. and released on their own label, Two Flowers Records, The Fifth State of Consciousness finds Aaron Coyes and Indra Dunis using...
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Music to Soundtrack the Apocalypse
Fossil Aerosol Mining Project Apocalyptic thinking is as ancient as mankind; when human beings first realized there was a future, we also realized there would be an end. The Zoroastrian Frashokereti is...
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A Retrospective of The Jester: D.C.’s Jack On Fire
Photos by Farrah Skeiky. The dichotomy of life in Washington, D.C. divides the capital city into jagged and sometimes unequal parts. On one side is This Town, the ecosystem fed by the city’s political...
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A Guide To Jneiro Jarel’s Forward-Thinking Beats
Jneiro Jarel is relaxing in his home in New Orleans, relaying anecdotes about J Dilla, MF DOOM, and Phife Dawg. If you’ve been following the MC and producer’s career to this point, this roll call...
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Colectivo Chipotle Brings the Mexican Chiptune Scene Together
Chema64’s 2015 album Viziers is an unrelenting, video game-inspired assault of hyper-percussive blips, burps, explosions, and cheesy, retro, repetitive cranial misfirings. It’s like being trapped in...
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Album of the Day: Hot Flash Heat Wave, “Soaked”
Soaked, the second record from San Francisco’s Hot Flash Heat Wave is about the highs and lows of young love—its bright guitars and breezy melodies are seemingly custom-built for summer BBQ playlists....
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Big Ups: Priests Pick Their Favorite Bands on Bandcamp
Photo by Audrey Melton. When Priests emerged from the D.C. underground, they were quickly characterized as no wave-inspired noisemakers. But singer Katie Alice Greer is hesitant to embrace that...
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Football and Emo: A Love Story
Illustrations by George Wylesol. Emo has always felt anchored in an idealized high school world of school dances, locker love notes, and football games—or, at least, making out under the bleachers...
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Cody ChesnuTT Recorded His New Album In A Barn
In 2002, Cody ChesnuTT emerged as a nostalgic figure in modern rock. Adorned in black leather and long scarves, he embodied the acid-infused haze of the 1960s and bleeding-heart soul of the 1970s....
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This Week’s Essential Releases: Noise, Makossa, Krautrock & More
Welcome to Seven Essential Releases, our weekly roundup of the best music on Bandcamp. Each week, we’ll recommend six new albums, plus pick an older LP from the stacks that you may have missed. Golden...
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Album of the Day: Mikey Young, “Your Move Vol. 1”
In focusing on his role as a member of beloved Australian DIY groups like Total Control and Eddy Current Suppression Ring, and his near-ubiquitous production credits in certain punk circles, an...
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Royal Trux on Their Unlikely, Reinvigorating Reunion
Photo by Amanda Milius. Since breaking up Royal Trux in 2001, Jennifer Herrema and Neil Hagerty have both been so busy that it was hard to imagine they’d ever join forces again. Herrema made five...
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The Transcendent Sound of Dustin Wong and Takako Minekawa
Photo by Hiromi Shinada. To speak with Dustin Wong and Takako Minekawa is to speak with one person. Part of this is because Wong does most of Minekawa’s Japanese-to-English translations—aside from the...
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