Judy NelsonMontreal-based indie band BRAIDS make music that one rarely encounters: music that is meant to be processed and digested, bit by bit, as opposed to gulped down in one large bite. BRAIDS' 2011 debut Nate Dpeaker was a lush, layered, complex swirl of...
Pure Bathing Culture first full-length record, Moon Tides (Partisan Records), reflect a number of themes of the indie underground like a crystal ball, that are easily missed or ignored with cursory reductive listening. There’s more going on here...
Ghost & Goblin, the macabre-music-making, lo-fi loving, NYC-based team of Nicholas DiMichele and Spencer Synwolt have created SUPERHORRORCASTLELAND, an album filled with noises that go bump in the night -- like fuzzed-out angry electric guitars...
Holy shit, how 'bout 2013? If someone told me in 2005 that in 8-years-time, Japan would be melting from radioactivity, Daft Punk would make a yacht rock record with Nile Rodgers on guitar, Barack Obama was a two-term president and he too was a war...
Demon Queen Exorcise Tape Rad Cult (2013) Exorcise Tape is a soundtrack to an ectoplasmic burlesque in the 6th rung, born of a bad break-up, graffiti, and a strip club on 29th street in Tucson. Zackey Force Funk, of the hip-hop collective Machina...
On their debut LP, This Side Dawn, eclectic pop-folk-jazz-rock band Fox & Woman gives us an exciting window into their developing hybridized sound. Throughout the album, satisfying pop-inspired moments catch our ear while sporadic bursts of musical...
Troy MicheauDim Past probably isn’t going to get too much DJ love for his new EP, Black Dolphin. That’s not a statement about the quality of the music therein, mind you — nor do I mean to suggest that it isn’t danceable. The thing is that this lo-fi rager...
The incantatory nature of improvised music will not appeal to everybody. It's for a specialized sect, those that like to be surprised. It's the spirit of adventure that sends you off on random and unknown holidays, waiting to see what lies beyond...