Classical Curves is the first full-length album by Jack Latham, a young English electronic producer who goes by the name Jam City. Some claimed influences for the album are marble, trenchcoats, and &...
Given that the rallying cry for progressive bass music in 2012 amounts to "Not another shitty house album," its difficult to remember that as recently as 2010 there was a third avenue availab...
This singer (pronounced "tall waist") not only shares a hometown (Toronto) and producer (Illangelo) with the Weeknds Abel Tesfaye, but the same subject matter, vibe, and eerily similar vocal ...
Andy Falkous is something of a personal hero, and if he ever decides to give up on music, I just hope an institution of higher learning allows him an emeritus professorship based on the philosophical...
"I was the Duke of Earl, but it couldnt last/ I was the pony express, but I ran out of gas." This is the first thing Hamilton Leithauser sighs on the Walkmens new album, Heaven. It is a disti...
Having blown way more money at 4o Watt, Nowhere Bar, and Schoolkids Records than I care to mention, I can say from personal experience that everything youve heard about Athens, Ga., being a wonderlan...
Owen Ashworth is familiar with nostalgia. His work as Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, an often lo-fi, not-always-Casiotone-based indie pop project that officially came to an end in 2010, encompass...
Much of the press Brooklyn duo Exitmusic garnered for its 2011 EP, From Silence, depended as much on the pairs backstory as their tension-dependent sound. The tale of Aleksa Palladino and Devon Churc...
When I interviewed the Brooklyn black metal group Mutilation Rites, vocalist/guitarist George Paul said he was "a guitar player first," and that he doesnt think of himself as a lyricist: "...
Flipping through the booklet to Paul McCartneys Ram reissue, youll find no scholarly liner-notes essay. This is odd. Usually the reissue-packaging gods demand the positioning of an eager critic betwe...
The 32-year-old violinist Hilary Hahn has been at the lonely pinnacle of the classical A-list since she was all of 16 years old. Its not exactly a sphere that rewards, or even encourages, curiosity: ...
Its tempting to call 1980s New Jersey band the Trypes a Feelies side project. All five current Feelies were involved at some point, and the only record the Trypes ever released-- 1984s 4-song The Exp...
Theres a Philadelphia band called Birds of Maya, who released two must-listen albums of extremely lo-fi rocknroll with plentiful shredding: 2008s Vol. 1 and 2010s Ready to Howl offered up guitar riff...
There are a handful of jarring moments on Rye Ryes long-delayed debut that remind us of the music industrys comically strange state of artist development limbo. The passage of time is sometimes palpa...
The way pop interacts with our lives is as ripe for interrogation as ever. Late last year, Drake wrote a blog post criticizing Tumblr, at a time when acts from Dirty Beaches to Grimes could be seen a...
Up-and-coming songwriters wanting to make a Big Art-Rock Album with broad appeal are faced with a number of quandaries, apart from how to get the 12-piece synthesizer rig into the tour van. How to ba...
The middle ground is dangerous territory when it comes to dance music. Simian Mobile Disco have existed there, uneasily, for over five years now. Making things difficult for themselves, SMD try to bo...
San Francisco trio Grass Widow borrow from a number of proudly retro sounds: surf rock, post-punk, and minimalist indie pop. But the bands most distinct, and even quietly innovative, quality is its v...
Some artists fall ass-backwards into the zeitgeist, ending up there due to the singularity of their vision instead of any desire to remain abreast of current trends. The career of Andrew Weatherall i...
Phil Elverum, the force behind the Microphones and Mount Eerie, lives in a small town of just under 20,000 people town called Anacortes in Washington, about 64 miles outside of Seattle. As he told Br...
Drummer Jon Teague and vocalist Daron Beck have been conjuring darkness together for years. After playing separately in a series of heavy Texas bands, they formed the fantastic shape-shifting doom-ja...
The sound of bass music is constantly mutating, and the UK label Hotflush has certainly played a part in that over the last nine months. While many of its recent singles still toy with big grooves, c...
For all the big hooks and pop appeal, Vampire Weekend have always shown more than a few interesting sides to their music, including West African keyboard tones, hyper-lyrical twists, and percussion t...
On their debut album, Nupping, Dope Body hit loft-show paydirt by splicing noise-rock with melodies salvaged from the junkyard of 1990s FM radio. That may sound like an unpalatable combo, but the Bal...
Even the best relationships acquire baggage. Circa 1999, Def Jux forged a fiefdom from the ashes of vinyl champs Fondle Em and the soon-to-be-ruined promise of Rawkus. "Independent as fuck" w...
Its both helpful and a little disorienting that the term "bass music" has grown to identify the general cross-genre hybridization of post-dubstep/funky/wonky/juke. Its helpful because its goo...
The radioactive noise-rock on RØSENKØPFs debut album draws heavily from goth and industrial, two musical and cultural subsets that put as much stock into image and costumery as hip-hop and metal, but...
Meek Mill had a few big singles and a breakthrough mixtape in last years Dreamchasers, but now comes the hard part. With expectations comes pressure, and pressure in rap means to repeatedly prove one...
A fifth reissue of a 30-year old album needs something remarkable to make fans bite, and EMI promised just that for The Visitors-- ABBAs final album would now host their first piece of unreleased mat...
During the first half of his career as IDM troublemaker, Tom Jenkinson became one of the most divisive figures in electronic music, plundering electric jazz and rave music for his own extremist ends,...
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