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Story of a Song: Strange Relations, “Maria Sweet”
Mainstream music’s recurring “sugar” trope has a history stretching back almost as far as the genre itself, with a stylistic range extending wide enough to include hits like The Archies’ “Sugar Sugar”...
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Album of the Day: Brandon Seabrook, “Die Trommel Fatale”
On Die Trommel Fatale (“the drum fatal”), Brooklyn-based musician/composer Brandon Seabrook favors the guitar over the banjo (which he usually emphasizes with his avant jazz group Seabrook Power...
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Psymun on Working With The Weeknd, Bon Iver, and Rediscovering Lightning Bolt
After almost 10 years in the music industry, the Minnesota producer Psymun has learned to stop worrying about the dumb shit. Whether it’s rappers taking his beats from the Internet for their own use,...
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Big Ups: The Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle
The Mountain Goats by Jeremy Lange. One of the Mountain Goats’ best-loved songs, which elicits massive shouted singalongs at the band’s live shows, is a 15-year-old tune called “The Best Ever Death...
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Benjamin Booker Serves As His Own “Witness”
Photo by Neil Krug. Benjamin Booker’s latest record, Witness, boldly explodes the garage-blues paradigm of his previous work. In an essay announcing the record, he detailed the dual inspirations for...
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Album of the Day: House and Land, “House and Land”
Even in the year 2017, Appalachia remains a curiosity to most Americans. Despite its rich and fascinating cultural histories, it’s often maligned by those who don’t understand it. But it’s also the...
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Leonce on His Idiosyncratic Approach to Dance Music
The hazy line between dance music, trap, R&B, and pop has been scrambled definitively by the label Fade to Mind. The label’s heavily tweaked, decidedly drowsy, and hyper-aware sound reaches all...
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The Veterans of UK Grime Are Still At It
P-Jam It’s now well over a decade and a half since grime emerged from raves, pirate radio stations, and youth clubs primarily in the East End of London. But despite trials, tribulations, and...
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Billy Stoner Was An Outlaw Before It Was Cool
Imagine leading multiple bands, overseeing multiple venues, hanging around Austin near the start of the outlaw country scene, going to prison and forming a band there, only to have your debut album...
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Jefre Cantu-Ledesma’s Multi-Colored Music
Photo by Shawn Brackbill. For Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, the last few years have been a process of opening up. His 2015 album A Year With 13 Moons is an evocative masterwork, but also a hermetic one. He...
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Album of the Day: Svartsyn, “In Death”
Sweden’s Ornias has been spewing forth evil, raw-throated, buzzing black metal since the early 1990s, mostly under the moniker Svartsyn—which, sensibly, means “pessimism” in Swedish. The True Legend,...
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Roya’s Crisp, Swaggering Indie Rock Examines a World on the Brink
Released earlier this month by Burger Records, Roya’s self-titled full-length debut features 11 songs powered by taut, chugging guitars, the crisp drumming of Hamish Kilgour of The Clean, and Rahill...
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Integrity’s Dwid Hellion Thinks Humanity is a Disease
Photo by Jimmy Hubbard. Dwid Hellion, the mastermind behind long-running Cleveland metallic hardcore band Integrity, is heavy duty. He’s about to release the band’s new album, Howling, For the...
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A Brief Guide To The Weird World Of Finland’s Circle
Photo by Kimmo Metsaranta. “The biggest misconception about Circle is that we are the best band in the world. We are not. But we are dangerously close to being one.” —Jussi Lehtisalo They may...
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Mark McGuire Is Addicted To Recording Music
During our chat with Ohio-based producer Mark McGuire, a group of deer began circling his car. “Oh, whoa,” he says. “That’s sick.” Just another day in the life of a musician whose art is based on...
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Album of the Day: Jack DeJohnette, Larry Grenadier, John Medeski & John...
The members of the jazz supergroup Hudson share a language created in cities: by dense hive-minds of musicians, the spaces where they cross-pollinate, and audiences who amplify the buzz. But as with...
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An Introduction to Avant-Garde Electronic Music in Poland
RSS B0YS by Natalia Kabanow. In recent years, there has been a steady increase in the reach of Polish underground music, in terms of both sonics and audience. That development didn’t come out nowhere;...
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The Merch Table: June 2017
Illustration by Paul Grelet Every month, The Merch Table brings you the best and most bonkers merchandise you can find on Bandcamp. We commend bands and labels that get a little creative and think...
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The Best New Hip-Hop on Bandcamp: June 2017
Welcome back to The Month in Hip-Hop, your go-to source for great beats and rhymes throughout Bandcamp. This month, we assess throwback tracks from South Philly and delve into North Carolina’s...
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Rozwell Kid Explore the Profundity of the Mundane
Photo by Emily Dubin. Jordan Hudkins, the frontman for West Virginia band Rozwell Kid, is sitting at a lengthy wooden table, flanked by bassist Devin Donnelly, drummer Sean Hallock, and guitarist Adam...
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