Category Archives: Featured Articles
Of Sound as Memory ~ An Interview With Nyokabi Kariũki
Nyokabi Kariũki has emerged as an exciting new voice in experimental music over the past few years. We will let her do the introductions herself, but it’s worth highlighting the blog she keeps over on her website, where you can
Of Sound as Memory ~ An Interview With Nyokabi Kariũki
Nyokabi Kariũki has emerged as an exciting new voice in experimental music over the past few years. We will let her do the introductions herself, but it’s worth highlighting the blog she keeps over on her website, where you can
ACL 2024 ~ Winter Music Preview: Rock, Post-Rock, Folk & Jazz
We conclude our six-part Winter Music Preview with a slew of genres: not only those mentioned above, but doom, dub, raga, Afrobeat and more. During this trip around the world, we’ll meet performers who operate as sonic chefs, spicing their
ACL 2024 ~ Winter Music Preview: Rock, Post-Rock, Folk & Jazz
We conclude our six-part Winter Music Preview with a slew of genres: not only those mentioned above, but doom, dub, raga, Afrobeat and more. During this trip around the world, we’ll meet performers who operate as sonic chefs, spicing their
ACL 2024 ~ Winter Music Preview: Modern Composition
A change of direction, an anticipated collection and a slew of soundtracks mark the winter slate of releases in Modern Composition. This music may be elegant, but it’s not just for highbrow audiences; a few of the albums below have
ACL 2024 ~ Winter Music Preview: Modern Composition
A change of direction, an anticipated collection and a slew of soundtracks mark the winter slate of releases in Modern Composition. This music may be elegant, but it’s not just for highbrow audiences; a few of the albums below have
ACL 2024 ~ Winter Music Preview: Experimental
Here’s where the most unique music is found: the music that either captures the imagination or – in its use of abstraction, dissonance, atonalism and more – makes one swim back to the safety of shore. While the outer edge
ACL 2024 ~ Winter Music Preview: Experimental
Here’s where the most unique music is found: the music that either captures the imagination or – in its use of abstraction, dissonance, atonalism and more – makes one swim back to the safety of shore. While the outer edge
ACL 2024 ~ Winter Music Preview: Electronic
In a slight winter surprise, our largest preview is not ambient, but electronic. Perhaps the winter release slate reflects a desire to dance the cold nights away, and to feel the warmth of summer in sweat rather than in sweaters.
ACL 2024 ~ Winter Music Preview: Electronic
In a slight winter surprise, our largest preview is not ambient, but electronic. Perhaps the winter release slate reflects a desire to dance the cold nights away, and to feel the warmth of summer in sweat rather than in sweaters.
ACL 2024 ~ Winter Music Preview: Drone
If ambient music reflects the light of gently falling snow, drone represents the shift from gorgeous to dangerous: white-out conditions, howling winds, frigid temperatures, rattling pipes and overworked heaters. Not that beauty is lacking from drone; the genre finds beauty
ACL 2024 ~ Winter Music Preview: Drone
If ambient music reflects the light of gently falling snow, drone represents the shift from gorgeous to dangerous: white-out conditions, howling winds, frigid temperatures, rattling pipes and overworked heaters. Not that beauty is lacking from drone; the genre finds beauty
ACL 2024 ~ Winter Music Preview: Ambient
A new year, a fresh start, a clean slate: as we turn the page of the new year, we look forward to what it has to offer. We hope it will bring health and happiness, prosperity and peace; but we
ACL 2024 ~ Winter Music Preview: Ambient
A new year, a fresh start, a clean slate: as we turn the page of the new year, we look forward to what it has to offer. We hope it will bring health and happiness, prosperity and peace; but we
Armand Hammer ~ We Buy Diabetic Test Strips
On the last verse of “As the Crow Flies,” the final track on billy woods and Kenny Segal’s Maps, released earlier in 2023, woods rhymes: I’m in the park with the baby on the swings When it hits me crazy,
Armand Hammer ~ We Buy Diabetic Test Strips
On the last verse of “As the Crow Flies,” the final track on billy woods and Kenny Segal’s Maps, released earlier in 2023, woods rhymes: I’m in the park with the baby on the swings When it hits me crazy,
a closer listen 