The term “ambient country” – applied to artists like SUSS, Mute Duo, and Labradford, among others – is meant to describe a musical style that Continue Reading
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Sotto Voce's 'Your Husband, the Governor' Is Beautifully Twisted DIY Indie Folk-rock
For an album recorded entirely on a USB microphone in various Brooklyn apartments, Sotto Voce’s Your Husband, the Governor sounds, at least at the very Continue Reading
Jack Halberstam's 'Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire' (excerpt)
Chapter Four: Where the Wild Things Are: Humans, Animals, and Children Where the Wild Things Are And let’s not forget the wolves. I insist on Continue Reading
Monokino Releases New Music Video – “No Return”
George van Wetering, lead singer and songwriter for the Dutch band Monokino, has recently released a new music video for the single “No Return,” exclusively Continue Reading
Electrosoul's Flõstate Find "Home Ground" on Stunning Song (premiere)
Flõstate are an electrosoul duo comprised of producer MKSTN and singer-songwriter Avery Florence that create a mesmerizing downtempo number with “Home Ground”, their follow-up single Continue Reading
Plattetopia: The Prefabrication of Utopia in East Berlin
Familiar as I am with the paradoxes of life in modern industrial housing, that the more humans are packed into concrete compartments the more atomised Continue Reading
PM Picks Playlist 4: Stellie, The Brooks, Maude Latour
Stellie – “Colours” (premiere) Photo: Jackson Thornbury / Courtesy of artist Australia’s Stellie is a rising alternative pop singer-songwriter that received more than 700,000 streams Continue Reading
West London's WheelUP Merges Broken Beat and Hip-Hop on "Stay For Long" (premiere)
London’s WheelUP is a producer reviving the broken beat sound of the 1990s, blended with plenty of drum ‘n’ bass, and a modern sensibility. His Continue Reading
Fleet Foxes Take a Trip to the 'Shore'
The most notable aspect of Fleet Foxes’ appropriately titled latest release, Shore, is just how much it sounds like being at the beach. That is Continue Reading
Becky Warren Shares "Good Luck" and Discusses Music and Depression
Becky Warren, an award-winning, risk-taking roots artist who still needs to be properly rewarded for taking on a cold, cruel world while working for a Continue Reading
Brett Newski Plays Slacker Prankster on "What Are You Smoking?" (premiere)
Brett Newski’s particular brand of rock, described as “smash pop”, “diet grunge”, and “slack hop”, among other designations is on full display via the new Continue Reading
For Don DeLillo, 'The Silence' Is Deafening
Paradoxes abound in The Silence, Don DeLillo’s latest novel. Its subject—the end of contemporary life as we know it—is huge. Its size is small, barely Continue Reading
Creature Comfort's "Woke Up Drunk" Ruminates on Our Second-Guesses (premiere)
Creature Comfort have found a means of carving out their share of the Nashville music scene with their idiosyncratic blend of indie rock and Americana. Continue Reading
The Budos Band Call for Action on "The Wrangler" (premiere)
Sinuous grooves and heated horns come hand-in-hand with Staten Island’s Budos Band, as their many fans — Madonna, Iggy Pop, and the Wu-Tang Clan among Continue Reading
Hot Chip Stay Up for 'Late Night Tales'
A small grace: for all of the terrible things that have befallen the music industry owing to COVID, the Late Night Tales compilation series continues Continue Reading
Orchestra Baobab Celebrate 50 Years with Vinyl of 'Specialist in All Styles'
Nostalgia looms large throughout the first vinyl edition of Dakar-based group Orchestra Baobab’s 2002 comeback release Specialist In All Styles. Out on World Circuit in Continue Reading
Sumen Releases His Latest Collection Of Rock And Roll, Blues, Rockabilly, And Dance Rock Songs
Coming from a musical family, the CA-based talented musician Sumen has walked a long way in the music industry before he could release his own, Continue Reading
MONEYPHONE Drop New Single & Video For “Indecision”
David and Enoch are the Toronto-based duo behind the community-driven MONEYPHONE and are set to release their forthcoming mixtape, ‘Faith’. As the next step in Continue Reading
3 Pairs of Boots Celebrate Wandering on "Everywhere I Go" (premiere)
California-based husband-and-wife duo Andrew Stern and Laura Arias of 3 Pairs of Boots will release Long Rider in January 2021. The record demonstrates the pair’s Continue Reading
Uncensored 'Native Son' (1951) Is True to Richard Wright's Work
Don’t push me ’cause I’m close to the edge I’m trying not to lose my head It’s like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder Continue Reading