ACL 2024 ~ The Year’s Best Winter Music

This year’s ACL selection of The Year’s Best Winter Music honors every aspect of the season, from gently falling snow to white-out conditions, from winter sports to Antarctic research stations.  Half of the entries are appearing here for the first time,

ACL 2016: The Year’s Best Packaging

Next week we’ll look at the year’s best cover art; in this article, we consider overall packaging.  In an era when many consider the physical format to be extinct, these artists and labels say otherwise.  A couple can still be

Canti Magnetici ~ Tape Batch #2: Luca Garino, Videobasic, Absent Outfit, Danny Clay + Greg Gorlen

Serious question: Why release music on tape? The resurgence of tape labels in recent years has been met with a seemingly never-ending flood of condescending think pieces.  I’m against fetishization and nostalgia more than most, yet I think it’s important

Danny Clay & Katrien De Blauwer ~ Stills

Are we still in the digital era, or have we passed into something yet unnamed?  (Please don’t call it “post-digital”!)  While many of us never abandoned our love for vinyl, a new generation has embraced it, and with the love