Category Archives: Featured Articles
LCNL 072: Off Land presents Astral Drive
Our latest mix comes from Off Land, a soothing journey through electronic ambience. We hope to keep this mix series coming more regularly, and have some great mixes ready to come out over the next few months. You can stream
LCNL 072: Off Land presents Astral Drive
Our latest mix comes from Off Land, a soothing journey through electronic ambience. We hope to keep this mix series coming more regularly, and have some great mixes ready to come out over the next few months. You can stream
10 Tracks to Start Your Summer
Summer is finally here! To kick off the new season, we’ve chosen ten of the sunniest instrumental-based songs around. These are tracks to play while getting ready to go out, driving to the beach, playing Can Jam or simply relaxing in
10 Tracks to Start Your Summer
Summer is finally here! To kick off the new season, we’ve chosen ten of the sunniest instrumental-based songs around. These are tracks to play while getting ready to go out, driving to the beach, playing Can Jam or simply relaxing in
Mutek 2016 ~ Previews and Picks
The 17th edition of MUTEK, Montreal’s esteemed international festival of digital creativity and electronic music, takes place this week running June 1-5. A veritable institution, this year’s festival continues to showcase the best in both established and up-and-coming Canadian
Mutek 2016 ~ Previews and Picks
The 17th edition of MUTEK, Montreal’s esteemed international festival of digital creativity and electronic music, takes place this week running June 1-5. A veritable institution, this year’s festival continues to showcase the best in both established and up-and-coming Canadian
ACL 2016: The Year’s 10 Best Music Videos
At year’s end, we realized that we’d already captured most of the year’s best music videos back in May. So instead of duplicating our choices, we’ve switched a vocal video for an instrumental one and re-titled the article. Enormous variety is
ACL 2016: The Year’s 10 Best Music Videos
At year’s end, we realized that we’d already captured most of the year’s best music videos back in May. So instead of duplicating our choices, we’ve switched a vocal video for an instrumental one and re-titled the article. Enormous variety is
LCNL 071: Luca Sigurtà presents Motel Music Mixtape
Luca Sigurtà recently released Warm Glow, the latest surprising turn for this Italian musician. Drawing on triphop and ambient textures, Warm Glow fits snugly into Sigurtà’s oeuvre while showing off a very different aspect of his identity as a musician. He
LCNL 071: Luca Sigurtà presents Motel Music Mixtape
Luca Sigurtà recently released Warm Glow, the latest surprising turn for this Italian musician. Drawing on triphop and ambient textures, Warm Glow fits snugly into Sigurtà’s oeuvre while showing off a very different aspect of his identity as a musician. He
Sound Propositions 010: Christina Vantzou
Sound Propositions is an ongoing, semi-regular series of conversations with artists exploring their creative practices and individual aesthetics, conceived of as a counter-narrative to a dominant trend in music journalism which fetishizes equipment and new technologies. Rather than writing copy
Sound Propositions 010: Christina Vantzou
Sound Propositions is an ongoing, semi-regular series of conversations with artists exploring their creative practices and individual aesthetics, conceived of as a counter-narrative to a dominant trend in music journalism which fetishizes equipment and new technologies. Rather than writing copy
LCNL 070: Ongapalooza – 10 years of Boring Machines mix
Our friends at Boring Machines records are about to celebrate their tenth anniversary! That’s ten years of championing great Italian artists to audiences around the world. Founded by Onga in Treviso in 2006, the label has been responsible for some
LCNL 070: Ongapalooza – 10 years of Boring Machines mix
Our friends at Boring Machines records are about to celebrate their tenth anniversary! That’s ten years of championing great Italian artists to audiences around the world. Founded by Onga in Treviso in 2006, the label has been responsible for some
Spring Music Preview: The Next 100
The 2016 spring release schedule is the best that we can remember, with one release date ~ April 1 ~ stacking up to be the biggest in years. As early as January, we started to get an inkling that something
Spring Music Preview: The Next 100
The 2016 spring release schedule is the best that we can remember, with one release date ~ April 1 ~ stacking up to be the biggest in years. As early as January, we started to get an inkling that something
a closer listen 