Music
5 Experimental Albums That Stretch the Boundaries of Pop Music
While some of the best experimental music feels untethered from any tradition or idiom, there’s equal greatness in that which approaches storied music styles as a means for expansion. … read more
Review: Candlemass – The Door to Doom
The Door to Doom is a great gap-bridger of the group’s older works and the newer sound. It terrifically manages the older and more melodic realms of albums like the debut, Epicus Doomicus Metallicus/, yet distills the harder, bombastic riffs of King of the Grey Islands and the last record, Psalms for the Dead. … read more
Review: The Coathangers — The Devil You Know
Needless to say I am “hooked” on The Coathanger’s The Devil You Know. It got me like a Little Ceasar’s pizza—hot n’ ready for more. … read more
Review: Candlemass – The Door to Doom
Candlemass = Solstice + Black Sabbath + Solitude Aeturnus … read more
5 Experimental Releases That Push Old Styles In New Directions
Out of the ever-expanding archive of great experimental music, here are 5 releases that take familiar sounds in unexpected directions, be it jazz, techno, ambient or pop. … read more
Review: Xiu Xiu – Girl with Basket of Fruit
Xiu Xiu = Parenthetical Girls + Chino Amobi + Author & Punisher … read more
Review: Talos – Far Out Dust
Talos = James Blake + Bon Iver … read more
Review: Girlpool – What Chaos is Imaginary
Girlpool = Japanese Breakfast + (Sandy) Alex G … read more
Review: Le Butcherettes – bi/MENTAL
Le Butcherettes = Siouxsie Siouz + Patti Smith … read more
Review: Cherry Glazerr – Stuffed & Ready
Cherry Glazerr = Lush + Kathleen Hannah … read more
Review: Juliana Hatfield – weird
Juliana Hatfield = Olivia Newton John + Liz Phair + Matthew Sweet … read more
Review: Sneaks – Highway Hypnosis
Sneaks = TV Girl + Peaches … read more
