Without lyrics, instrumental music often gets confined to the background, serving as an accompanying soundtrack to a movie or television series. Fortunately, despite having songs that were used on the TV adaptation of This American Life, Pale White...
With his most recent body of work, Adam Friedman combines traditional landforms with some truly interplanetary shit. His mixed media pieces initially come off a little like illustrations in a scientific textbook, but closer inspection reveals worlds...
The Blitz Capitol Hill Art Walk is the second Thursday of every month, meaning it’s tomorrow! Here are just a few of the things you can expect from it this month: VERMILLION GALLERY What promises to be an interesting group show, “Winter...
Be scared, oh yes, be scared… or be really, really impressed. This grotesquely dizzying installation by UK-based artist is really made of piles and piles of pigeon feathers, felt, glue, and polystyrene. Looking at it might give you the feeling...
Experimental rock bands seem to be getting a good amount of attention from the mainstream media these days, but within that subgenre is an even smaller subset of individuals who seem to channel the unconscious into droning, contemplative music that...
At its best, The Hue’s debut album, Beyond Words, offers riffs and arrangements which pay homage to the spirit of Faith No More. When their intricate instrumentation becomes overwhelming, however, the songs do not fade into the background, but...
Chris Root and Juju Stulbach have created a self-titled album that entertains better as a whole than as a collection of individual songs. Undersea Poem is truly an indie symphony movement, which serves as a beautiful backdrop, at that. Initially, I...
"We knew we were never going to be the same band that we tried to be between 1998 to 2004. Back then, we could dedicate everything to being in a band, being poor..." -- Tom Reno