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Pye Corner Audio Fills The Space Between Dance Music and Horror Soundtracks
Photo by Sophie Wengen. The music of Pye Corner Audio has a fluid quality to it, often taking on slightly different forms within a single song. Roving swaths of buzzing synths can transform into a...
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Pandemix’s Poetic Punk Politics
Photo by Ryan Stanis. Pandemix is a punk band from Boston, Massachusetts. Granted, punk is a broad term—it encapsulates a myriad of subgenres: hardcore, peace punk, Oi!, crust, and so on—but Pandemix...
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Album of the Day: Cosmic Analog Ensemble, “Les Sourdes Oreilles”
Producer Charif Megarbane creates many different styles of music—folk, avant-soul, experimental jazz, funk, and disco—each blending uniquely different from the next. In most cases, artists who tamper...
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Sahel Sounds Brings the Sounds of West Africa to the World
Markus Milcke Explorer, music archivist, curator, and amateur ethnomusicologist Christopher Kirkley has spent much of the past decade documenting the sounds of the Sahel region in Africa, which...
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How The Beach Inspired Denitia’s Dreamy New Alt-Pop Record
Denitia Odigie is a kind-hearted person. She must be, to leave her quiet beachside apartment in the Rockaways and travel an hour on the subway to Park Slope, Brooklyn, where we sat in a quaint coffee...
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Floco Torres Breaks Up With His Old Habits
Photo by Maryann Bates. Perhaps more than any other style of popular music, hip-hop puts a high level of importance on regional pride and a sense of place. These days, it seems like there isn’t an...
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Album of the Day: Bei Bei & Shawn Lee, “Year of the Funky”
Chinese-American guzheng player Bei Bei and Kansas-bred expatriate producer Shawn Lee keep their East-meets-West synergy simple yet effective on their second album together, Year of the Funky,...
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Tau Cross’s Rob Miller Forges New Paths—and Swords
Rob Miller is known for two things: forging badass swords and recording kickass heavy metal. Miller first rose to prominence in the ‘70s with the Crass-approved outfit Amebix. Combining the...
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The Ten Best House Records of 2017 So Far
Illustration by Braulio Amado. House music in 2017 feels like it is, once again, open to all influences. It is soulful and vocal or fucked-up and dark. It’s reduced to perfectly infectious loops, or...
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The Kaleidoscopic Sound of Southeast Asian Psych-Funk
Cambodia Space Project From the 1960s to the 1980s, Southeast Asia was home to a wealth of progressive, offbeat funk that was as festive as it was meaningful. Artists like Indonesia’s The Rollies, the...
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High Scores: Ben Lukas Boysen and Sebastian Plano’s “Everything” Soundtrack
Photo by Alexander Schneider. I waver between thinking game-maker and animator David O’Reilly’s masterpiece, Everything, is something more than a video game and not a video game at all. Playing it...
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Album of the Day: Fhloston Paradigm, “After…”
Philadelphia DJ/producer King Britt has one of the longest résumés in electronic music—not to mention R&B and hip-hop. He first gained notice working with then-roommate Josh Wink on 1990’s “Tribal...
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Benedek’s Music Blends Hip-Hop, Jazz, and West Coast G-Funk
The first song Nicholas Benedek ever released was a track called “That’s My Jam!”—a wonderful slab of throwback funk, the kind of song that summons images of summertime pool parties and choreographed...
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13 Striking Contemporary EBM Releases
Unconscious Electronic body music, aka EBM—a dancefloor-oriented style of industrial—requires the people who make to have a healthy obsession with mastering machines. It is a laborious task—forging a...
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This Week’s Essential Releases: Warped Pop, Alt-R&B, Experimental Jazz & 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....
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Toronto’s Plasmalab on Spaces, Places, and Memes
Photo by Mark Fragua. Toronto trio Plasmalab’s snarling, squealing sludge-punk fires guttural rage at a broken world, while at the same time laughing at its absurdity. Like Jennifer Herrema fronting...
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Album of the Day: Katie Von Schleicher, “Sh*tty Hits”
Don’t let the name of Katie Von Schleicher’s newest album, Shitty Hits, put you off—the songs it contains are neither. Her music—a darker take on Americana that calls to mind Lee Hazlewood and Mazzy...
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The Multifaceted Soul of Charlotte Dos Santos
Photo by Mostafa Douban. Vocalist Charlotte Dos Santos is Norwegian by birth, but her music draws influence from basically everywhere but her home country. That’s thanks in part to her parents,...
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Ramesh’s Painstaking Pop Craft
Last fall, Ramesh Srivastava released “The Fool,” his first new recording since 2014’s The King. It’s a wrenching, heartbroken ballad with verses that recall ’70s folk confessionals like Keith...
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How Tanya Morgan Became A Rap Group and Sustained Itself Over The Years
The first time you hear the name “Tanya Morgan,” you may think someone is talking about an obscure ‘80s R&B singer. In fact, Tanya Morgan is a rap group, comprised of lyricists Von Pea and...
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