Before we say goodbye, we thought wed bring you our collective favorite albums of 2011. Ash Borer: Ash Borer [Pesanta Urfolk] MP3: Ash Borer: "Rest, You Are The Lightning" Chillwave. Its been...
In our year-and-a-half on the information highway, we had the good fortune of witnessing what was at once a very prolific time, a very confusing time, and a very exciting time in underground music. I...
With 2,175 posts in 16 months, youre bound to miss something. Weve gone ahead and gathered some of our favorite tracks from now and yesteryear that didnt get much play, but deserved it. 20 Tracks You...
Dear friends, Today, the road comes to an end. We are saying goodbye. Altered Zones was launched in July 2010 with the mission of highlighting small-scale DIY music from all over the world, and we c...
[Photo by Megan Mack] By Emilie Friedlander James Ferraro: "Earth Minutes" The musician, video artist, and perennial drifter James Ferraro first appeared in my life in the form of an idea, pa...
[photos by Coley Brown] By Ric Leichtung MP3: Prince Rama: "Portaling" MP3: Prince Rama: "Rest In Peace" Prince Rama is a band thats widely respected in the underground for their high...
Finding success this year with two sold-out pressings from Angus Maclise-- the boho lifer who called John Cale a chump-- Boo-Hooray is issuing a third Maclise LP, Dreamweapon II, as well as limited r...
That phosphorescent groove bubbling below "Multiply" comes from Sun Araws Cameron Stallones and Los Angeles bretheren M. Geddes Gengras, collectively known as deep-roots dancehall curators Du...
A couple of weeks ago, we reported that Mike Collins label Culture Dealer is accepting song-poem submissions for a new, limited cassette series. We couldnt resist, so we submitted our own that will ...
By Dale W. Eisinger John Zorn: "Christmas Song (Ft. Mike Patton)" John Zorn is a complicated figure in the history of the American avant-garde. His performances are at times alienating, and o...
Pirako Kurenai and Kageo have been making minimalist guitar pieces together as Suishou No Fune since 1999, and with their latest live album, Bonsai No Ie, the duos showing no signs of slowing down. R...
Former Skaters, Monopoly Child Star Searchers, Vodka Soap, and Pacific City Nightlife Vision Band member Spencer Clark is now going by Fourth World Magazine. "StarChilds Birth" is yet another...
Since its debut earlier this year, Matthew Papichs Co La project has always exuded the exotic and the luxurious. Papich indirectly admits this, but his forays into the "New Anything" sound ar...
Online electronic music magazine Resident Advisor recently enhanced its service to provide users with high-quality downloads directly from its charts. Furthermore, users will now have the ability to ...
Maria Minerva and dEon just dropped their own versions of "Birds of Paradise" and "Hey Sparrow," adding to Peaking Lights ever-expanding roster of top notch remixers that includes the...
Between their known history and stylistic similarities, Christa Palazzolo and Sarah Browns current project, Boy Friend, is destined to be compared to their former band-turned-solo-project, Sleep ∞ Ov...
Today we are treated to the collaborative fruits of recently profiled artist Hubble and the telescope itself. Ben Greenberg, aka Hubble, crafted the ambient drone and mesmerizing fret taps of Hubble...
Falls arrival has left me reminiscing about 2011s best music, and the ghostly R&B echoes of Holy Others zoned in EP, With U, come quickly to my mind. In this YouTube video of his live performance...
Former Yellow Swans member Pete Swanson harnesses crystalline polyrhythms toward militant ends in "Misery Beat," a brash house music monster from his new Type Records LP, Man With Potential. ...
Out of feedback squalls and a rushed drum count-off comes a massive guitar banger, "The Finest Thing," the newest of Captured Tracks 7" shoegaze reissues, this one from German noiseists G...
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