Vee Hua 華婷婷Remix City Sifting through mountains of remix trash so you don’t have to, in an attempt to find the ones that contribute to their originals. After The Internet’s recent release of the Cocaine EP featuring their track of the same name...
Peter Woodburn“This new Russian Circles album is their best one yet,” I said last month for the fourth time in my life to the clerk at Sonic Boom Records. She stared back at me blankly as I gleefully clutched my new copy of Empros and ran home for its...
Thad McKraken"Charting the development of themes in linear time... is, in fact, a very idiosyncratic and Western way of looking at music. But if you take a longer, wider look at the history of humans making music, you find strong traditions all over the world of...
"For me, it has always been easier to discuss the heavy subjects in song... it gives me an opportunity to immerse myself in it when I don't otherwise normally do that." -- Jordan Dreyer
New technology is odd as, in a way, it points out how much making decent art really has to do with choices more than anything else. I’ve always been one to oft opine that the second you pick up a guitar and write a song, even if you have no...
This black and white for Reigns’ “The Diagram” is a classy one. For the single from their upcoming album, The Widow Blades, they expertly bathe the entire video in blacks using minimalistic compositions and heavy strobing. Given...
Erik BurgHolocene – Portland, OR – 2011 / November 9 It’s been a fascinating and, from a fan’s perspective, incredibly fun year for Brooklyn disco-rock revivalists Holy Ghost! The band finally released their anticipated debut album on...
I’ve always been fascinated with music that feels removed, purposefully or not, form the time period in which it is being created. Some records feel dated in a disparaging sense, but the new album from Water Borders sounds like a beautifully...