The Blue Nile struggled for years to create the definitive version of themselves; 1989's "Hats" is the result of their ...

Producers Saint Abdullah & Eomac disrupt the concept of every border through hip hop and electronica on When The Sandbox Has No Edge. I’m going to open this by taking issue with the common definition ...

Warmly welcome our newest Weekly Featured Artist, the Italian avant-garde post-rock stalwarts Threestepstotheocean!

The shoegaze renaissance of the last decade or so has been fascinating to behold. Some groups – Nothing, Whirr, DIIV – have reached wide recognition by sticking closely to the blueprint set by the ...

Years of leftist discourse and study have left a nagging guilt in my soul regarding escapism. The further one gets into escapism, the further one gets away from action, from being informed, or from ...

Time is the inevitable grand jury of all things that come to pass, applying in all fields of life. When sticking to the musical meaning, the passing of time gets easily diminished or exaggerated, ...

On Chelsea Wolfe‘s ninth full-length album, The Dark, what should feel like an impenetrable fortress of fog and gloom is mostly drab and quite liminal. I hate to say it, but this particular Chelsea ...

We’ve truly lived through what felt like an endless summer this year, and not in a good way, either. Heat waves, drought, and general discomfort as temperatures continue to rise across the globe.

Most albums form their own little distinct realities. Depending on the artists’ style, personal character, and intentions, these realities can be fantastical, philosophical, satirical, political, ...

I know how it goes, I’m doing it for many years – with September hauling in, you know the dog days are over. You don’t have to collect the crumbs to get something to eat; you actually have to ...