Ian KingIn a universe consisting of four percent matter and ninety-six percent negative space, absence is the dominant substance. With the right frame of mind, a void can be an endless possibility. Disappears’ fifth album pounds that clay into a sonic...
Greg HealeyModern Surf Classics, by Swami & The Blind Shake, is both authentic and imaginative in its approach while capturing the spirit of the original music and successfully recasting it for the 21st century. The combination of the propulsive and bombastic...
Effortlessly eternal, Jack Name’s Weird Moons harnesses the same joyous commitment to polyglot musical experimentalism of the likes of Thee Oh Sees and Ty Segall. Simultaneously evoking both the creaky wonder of lo-fi bedroom recordings and...
Thad McKrakenThe idea that the multiverse is more akin to an art project than a science experiment (or an art experiment, if you're so inclined) is one of those Occult themes that typically gets dismissed by both overly scientific and religious types alike, even...
Judy NelsonAs music fans and college radio DJs descend upon NYC this week, those of us who are already here are taking stock on the music scene as it stands. Last year, the CMJ Music Marathon saw a heavy representation from indie bands that were making their...
Started in Beijing seven years ago, the Modern Sky Festival is now one of many big music festivals that take place across China put on by its namesake company, Modern Sky Entertainment. On the weekend of October 4th and 5th, Modern Sky took the...
Jody Beth Rosen"If you're basing your career on likes and plays and how many hits a particular video has, it's really impersonal. But when it's that grassroots thing, you get so much more mileage out of looking someone in the eye and having them tell you, 'Wow...
Vee Hua 華婷婷Travel with Midday Veil for eight minutes, into the pixelated fractal universes of "Within and Without", premiering today on REDEFINE in anticipation of the Seattle band's upcoming west coast tour with Swahili.