Now that the House of Representatives has excised Arctic drilling from the budget bill, we can stop worrying about polar…
M83, Ulrich Schnauss, and Mono take their laptops and guitars cloudgazing.
Destroyer’s Dan Bejar makes language bloom.
San Francisco’s Deerhoof make punk into a plaything.
On his third album, Rufus Wainwright gets personal.
A brief history of odd percussion.
A fantasy: Cmdr. Bainwol snakes through the maze of agents poring over the shabby apartment that, until a few hours…
Neko Case roams the country.
The Fever: a detective story.
Seattle metal mainstays Himsa take their hardcore-inflected roar to the masses.
New York’s Animal Collective are judged by a group of their peers.
Omar Sosa is unmellowing with age, or so Ballads 1997–2000 (Ota) suggests. The newly released collection finds the Cuban-born pianist…
Westerberg replaces himself.
Black Dice and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah.
How the military uses music and sound.
Daniel Smith’s eccentric celebrations.
New Yorkers Lansing-Dreiden triangulate rock, visual art, and the fine art of anonymity.
DJ /rupture splices the world together on his turntables.
Cooper Temple Clause and Muse put the ‘bomb’ in bombast.
Seven new albums of varying frequencies— some ancient, some new and metallic.
A chat with Joe Pernice of the Pernice Brothers.
Jarboe dissects digitalia.
Surfing the sine waves with Haunted Weather author/compiler David Toop.
