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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If there’s one genre that really represents the times, for me it’s sludge. This is a permutation of metal that is close to doom’s side and has always been maligned with the worst the world has to ...

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.

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 ...

‘Honor Killed The Samurai is yet another piece of Ka’s cryptic mosaic, an album that cemented his style and caught the attention of critics.‘ Ka fills this album with wisdom, lyrically, but he also ...

Being able to find the time and willpower to sit down, appreciate, and then write about music has become quite a rare occurrence for me these days; it certainly does not help that I’m egregiously ...

As much as I loved Slift‘s Fantasia earlier this year, I still felt myself yearning for an album that draws its power from the cosmos, and dishes it out to the the listener without filter, hitting ...

Space; the final frontier, the endless void, the vacuum, the cosmic gulf that dwarfs everything each and every one of us has done or ever will or experience. It’s fascinating, unnerving, and also ...

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 ...