ACL 2025 ~ The Year’s Best Music Videos

When challenged on the relevance of this year’s Video Music Awards, a spokesperson for MTV pointed out that some of the VMA nominees had accumulated over 100 million views on YouTube alone.  While our own artists are nowhere near that

ACL 2025 ~ The Year’s Best Music Videos

When challenged on the relevance of this year’s Video Music Awards, a spokesperson for MTV pointed out that some of the VMA nominees had accumulated over 100 million views on YouTube alone.  While our own artists are nowhere near that

ACL 2025 ~ The Year’s Best Winter Music

There’s great irony in the fact that modern winter music oft-includes the sounds of a vanishing season. The United Nations declared 2025 The Year of Glacier Preservation, and in response, the forms of minutiae imprint launched the year-long Ice Series,

ACL 2025 ~ The Year’s Best Winter Music

There’s great irony in the fact that modern winter music oft-includes the sounds of a vanishing season. The United Nations declared 2025 The Year of Glacier Preservation, and in response, the forms of minutiae imprint launched the year-long Ice Series,

ACL 2025 ~ The Year in Review

2025 was a tumultuous year for the music industry. Tariffs reversed years of rebound in the non-digital market, streaming services fractured, A.I. continued to creep into composition, and reviews became further decentralized.  These events and others sent ripples through the

ACL 2025 ~ The Year in Review

2025 was a tumultuous year for the music industry. Tariffs reversed years of rebound in the non-digital market, streaming services fractured, A.I. continued to creep into composition, and reviews became further decentralized.  These events and others sent ripples through the

Boundaries Festival, Sunderland

Boundaries celebrated its fifth edition last weekend, treating Sunderland to two days of experimental and adventurous music. Using multiple venues around the city centre – in fact, using the city centre as a venue itself – Boundaries is the kind

Boundaries Festival, Sunderland

Boundaries celebrated its fifth edition last weekend, treating Sunderland to two days of experimental and adventurous music. Using multiple venues around the city centre – in fact, using the city centre as a venue itself – Boundaries is the kind

Heidi Ross + Rachel Beetz ~ Somatic Steamed Eggs

Here’s a fun tape that would also make a wonderful holiday gift for the chef and/or experimental music lover in one’s life.  Somatic Steamed Eggs is the first release from Pauline Lay & Angi Brzycki’s OSO (One Sound Object): a

Heidi Ross + Rachel Beetz ~ Somatic Steamed Eggs

Here’s a fun tape that would also make a wonderful holiday gift for the chef and/or experimental music lover in one’s life.  Somatic Steamed Eggs is the first release from Pauline Lay & Angi Brzycki’s OSO (One Sound Object): a

Disiniblud ~ Disiniblud (Remixes)

The debut album from Disiniblud (Rachika Nayar and Nina Keith), reviewed here, was one of our site’s favorite surprises of summer, so we were overjoyed to hear there would be a remix album ~ even more so when we saw who

Disiniblud ~ Disiniblud (Remixes)

The debut album from Disiniblud (Rachika Nayar and Nina Keith), reviewed here, was one of our site’s favorite surprises of summer, so we were overjoyed to hear there would be a remix album ~ even more so when we saw who

Various Artists ~ Collapsing Tape

While listening to the 90-minute Collapsing Tape, one is reminded of just how delightfully weird Bristol’s Collapsing Drums label is.  The tape ~ a C90, just like an old-fashioned, ecletric mixtape – is the label’s 5th anniversary release, and is

Various Artists ~ Collapsing Tape

While listening to the 90-minute Collapsing Tape, one is reminded of just how delightfully weird Bristol’s Collapsing Drums label is.  The tape ~ a C90, just like an old-fashioned, ecletric mixtape – is the label’s 5th anniversary release, and is

Paul Jebanasam ~ mātr

Nine years have passed since Paul Jebanasam‘s last album, and mātr is only his third.  But as the new album demonstrates, Jebanasam has a different view of time. mātr (Sanskrit for mother and a permutation of matter) places humanity in the context of geologic time

Paul Jebanasam ~ mātr

Nine years have passed since Paul Jebanasam‘s last album, and mātr is only his third.  But as the new album demonstrates, Jebanasam has a different view of time. mātr (Sanskrit for mother and a permutation of matter) places humanity in the context of geologic time