There are very few moments in life when you know exactly what you’re going to get. With so much uncertainty looming in personal lives and the world at large, it’s reassuring that Xiu Xiu...
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Vee Hua 華婷婷On the music video for her latest single, “Break Me,” Los Angeles-based experimental opera singer and multidisciplinary artist Micaela Tobin wanders through ancient castles and uses light and shadow to carry forth her noise-laden...
A multi-platform multimedia project, Future Landscapes approaches climate change in a novel way. At its centerpiece is a documentary short film entitled Invisible Landscapes — which visits sites of energy extraction, agriculture, and...
Self-taught experimental musician and interdisciplinary artist, Ruhail Qaisar (Ladakhi), has recently presented Fatima, a haunting debut full-length album released on Aisha Devi’s label imprint, Danse Noire. Paired with a beautiful 48-page...
Over the course of sixteen eye-popping minutes, the music video for “Self Help,” a recently released track by Portland electronic musician Avola, takes viewers on a tripped out textural journey through a 3D-animated multiverse. Animated...
Jackie MoffittAlternatingly celebratory and apocalyptic, moon Over miami — a collaborative album curated by Archival Feedback, a long-time duo consisting of Emile Milgrim and T. Wheeler Castillo — subverts the old standard of the same name with a...
Desolation Center's genealogy of anti-commercial sound takes us to West Berlin, where Einstürzende Neubauten (translation: Collapsing New Buildings) create a new musical lexicon around the use of heavy machinery. It also gives us a glimpse of the...
Troy MicheauAutumn, how wonderful you are. Leaves are falling; fog is forming. It’s a wonderful time for reflection, don’t you think? In the spirit of fall, I present to you this recap of Decibel Festival 2015. But rather that splurge on all of the...