EYE
∈Y∋ Yamantaka ∈Y∋ is a visionary of radical sound and image, best known as the founder of the legendary avant-noise group Boredoms. Since the 1980s, his kaleidoscopic output—spanning noise, psychedelia, performance art, and visual collage—has shaped Japan’s experimental scene and reverberated globally. From performing with Sonic Youth and Nam June Paik to launching a chaotic […]
WHY?
WHY? Yoni Wolf was at war with himself. As he reached middle age, he was beset by questions that had plagued him for years. Why was life so difficult and lonely? When would the happy part of him take the steering wheel? Far from wallowing, he leaned into the dark and the light, asking how […]
Usurp Synapse
USURP SYNAPSE EYELET Eyelet is an aggressive four-piece band from Maryland. These long-standing purveyors of heavy, melodic screamo continue to evolve, recently culminating in the release of their third full-length album, “Solenoid”. This record delves even deeper into the sludge and slash riffage of their sophomore LP, “The Devil Shining Out Your Eyes”, while also […]
ear
ear IDM-indebted duo ear operates as a fifty-fifty collaborative art project. Their collage-like approach to production pairs experimental textures with the sentimentality and specificity of their songwriting. SLAUSON MALONE 1 Slauson Malone 1 is a performance piece created by artist and musician Jasper Marsalis, exploring the possible intersections of popular music and performance art. His […]
Set Your Goals
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Plow United
PLOW UNITED Plow United’s classic album Goodnight Sellout! is celebrating its 30th birthday like a true slacker: by moving back in with its parents. Yes, that’s right, the cult classic second album from the 90s Delaware Valley punks is getting the deluxe reissue treatment from its original label, Creep Records. Painstakingly remastered from the original […]
Greg Freeman
GREG FREEMAN Greg Freeman won’t be getting comfortable anytime soon. Across New Mexico, Vermont, Los Angeles, and a long stretch of tour stops hooking those places together, All Set The Bone came alive. While writing and recording it, Freeman moved out of his longtime home in Burlington, holed up in a middle-of-nowhere part of the […]
Chime School
CHIME SCHOOL Marrying the pristine jangle of electric 12-string guitars with nervy, hooky songs, Chime School are one of the leading groups to emerge from the beloved San Francisco indie scene, conjuring a unique and instantly recognizable form of indie pop, rooted in the buoyant, driving pulse of their 1980’s and 90’s forebearers, while still […]
Friendship & Charlotte Cornfield
FRIENDSHIP Music for sleeping and waking, walking and driving, hunting and fishing, for loitering outside a roadhouse on the haunted tundra. Okay in elevators, not great for dinner. On Caveman Wakes Up Friendship’s new album and second for Merge Records, the band’s historically capacious definition of country music grows wider still. Shambolic guitars are offset […]
Zillas On Acid
ZILLAS ON ACID Zillas on Acid is Thomas Roland and James Weissinger, DJs for the past 18 years at MAKING TIME, Philadelphia’s never-ending nightlife institution. Producing their own blend of psychedelic acid house for fave labels such as Optimo Music, Live at Robert Johnson, Ivan Smagghe’s Les Disques de la Mort, Running Back, Dischi, and […]