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The Rich History—and Present—of Latin American Prog
Laghonia The “classic prog rock” category usually contains heavy hitters like King Crimson, Pink Floyd, Can, and possibly Le Orme—bands hailing from Britain, Germany, and Italy making complex,...
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This Week’s Essential Releases: Punk Rock, Hip-Hop, and New Wave
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. Big...
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Album of the Day: ZGTO, “A Piece of the Geto”
Imagine being in the Bruiser Brigade and not being Danny Brown. In the Detroit-based collective, anyone other than the human airhorn almost seems superfluous. Brown is the magnet, the charge, the...
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Better Know a College Radio Station: CFUV
For many obsessive fans who grew up in the pre-Internet era, a passion for music was sparked in the dingy basements and dark booths of college radio stations. Despite sound boards that are decades out...
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How U.K.’s BBE Music Broke Even After All These Years
For more than two decades, U.K. record label Barely Breaking Even has been a beacon of the dancefloor. Born out of the London rare groove scene of the 1990s, BBE began as an extension of the...
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Area Pirata Records Keeps the Tuscan Punk Flame
Steeplejack The city of Pisa, perhaps exclusively infamous for its leaning tower, also has an incredibly vibrant and important underground rock scene, starting with two of the finest bands to emerge...
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Album of the Day: Heinali and Matt Finney, “How We Lived”
Matt Finney and Heinali don’t so much mix genres as they flatten them into a single drone. Finney, a spoken word poet from the U.S., and Heinali, a self-taught composer from Ukraine, have been working...
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The Chinabot Label Is Uniting Asia’s Next Generation of Electronic...
Photo by David Hinga. “Asian aesthetics have been omnipresent in fashion, cinema, photography, and music, and for Asian creatives this felt like a source of pride and the hope for greater visibility—at...
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Gudrun Gut’s Monika Enterprise Label Turns 20
Photo by MV Kummer. “You could still see the bullet holes in the houses,” Gudrun Gut says of moving to Berlin back in 1975. Far from the gentrified, cultural hub the city is today, she remembers it...
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John Sinclair and Youth at the Intersection of Art and Commerce
“Living Euro to Euro, sleeping on the couches and extra beds of friends, a man without a country and a post office box in New Orleans for a permanent address.” That’s how spoken word poet John...
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How Palm Captured The Magic of Their Live Shows On “Shadow Expert”
If you find yourself at a Palm concert anytime soon, prepare to be surprised. First, because the Philadelphia-based quartet’s music takes so many weird twists and turns; and second, because they have...
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Album of the Day: Jen Cloher, “Jen Cloher”
Few songwriters tackle autobiography as unflinchingly as Melbourne’s Jen Cloher. Even Cloher’s famous wife and collaborator, Courtney Barnett, doesn’t quite approach the level of scouring...
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How 2Mex’s Near-Death Experience Influenced His New Album
Last year, Los Angeles rapper 2Mex woke up one morning with a swollen foot. By the time he got out of bed, it had swelled to the size of a football, and 2Mex got himself to a hospital. When he got...
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Ruven Nunez’s Guitar Work is a Spiritual Practice
Ruven Nunez says he lives in a bowl; the Swiss guitarist interrupts a thought on a recent Skype call, lifting his computer over his right shoulder to show exactly what he means. Out a window, across...
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Album of the Day: Devil Electric, “Devil Electric”
Australia isn’t known for its swamps, but if there are any near Melbourne, that’s where you would find Devil Electric. Murky and enigmatic, their old-school doom metal rises out of the bayou like a...
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The Unlikely Intersection of Vaporwave and Hip-Hop
For a genre that’s been declared dead more times than anyone cares to count, vaporwave has managed to expand into a surprising amount of new territory over the course of its short existence. First,...
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Samantha Urbani Masters ’80s and ’90s-Inspired Pop
Samantha Urbani has been a student of pop ever since she can remember. In fact, she’s on her way to becoming a master of the craft, picking apart the production techniques of greats like Janet...
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HDLSS Has a Strong Message for Culture Vultures
Photo by Sachyn Mital. The song “Colonizer,” a highlight from the self-described “nocturnal pop” duo HDLSS, takes playful aim at recent singles from artists like Justin Bieber, Diplo, and Drake, all of...
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8 Vital Bands From the Current Crop of Florida Hardcore
Bind, photo by Kiabad Meza. Florida occupies a unique place in the history of American pop culture; when you think of Florida and its role in modern music history, there’s several different directions...
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Album of the Day: Nemui PJ, “Pumpkin EP”
The debut EP from like-minded artists Kidkanevil and Noah—who together form Nemui PJ—is the result of a U.K.-Japan connection cemented through a mutual love for creating music in their pajamas (“Nemui...
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