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Linus Hillborg Channels
Orphan Works Installation
On Magelungsverket LP
Moloton co-founder Linus Hillborg has revealed the details surrounding his first solo record. Due out January 22nd, Magelungsverket repuroses many of the recordings from Orphan Works, an interactive art installation that paints a bleak picture of Stockholm — one that was beamed from either the not-so-distant future or another universe entirely. According to a press […]
Prairie’s Rough
Guide to Coil
Words MARC JACOBS I first heard Coil when I was in my teens — more or less when Horse Rotorvator was just released. This was a kind of music I had never heard before, and I couldn’t pin it to any genre I was familiar with. Since then, the music of Coil has accompanied me […]
Teleseen Readies Thaba
Record With South African
Singer Khusi Seremane
A project with roots that reach all the way back to MySpace, Thaba is an intercontinental electro-pop exchange between Brooklyn producer/multi-instrumentalist Gabriel Cyr (a.k.a. Teleseen) and South African singer Khusi Seremane. The pair first crossed paths online more than a decade ago, and quickly found common ground over their shared love of kwaito, ’90s R&B, […]
Uniform On….
10 Horror Movies Worth
Streaming This Weekend
Photography EBRU YILDIZ The last time we checked in with Uniform, the NYC-based noiseniks shared 16 surefire “Songs For the End of the World”. The sprawling playlist filed Nina Simone and Sun Ra right next to Rush and Burning Witch, and made Uniform both a Band to Watch and true arbiters of taste. Now that the […]
Mogwai Announce New
Album Featuring Atticus
Ross and Colin Stetson
Here’s another reason to put the past (2020, mostly) behind us: Mogwai has a new album on the way next February. Their tenth overall, As the Love Continues was recorded with longtime producer Dave Fridmann remotely due to the pandemic. But that’s okay; everyone’s a pro here. According to a press release, Fridmann lorded over […]
Alice Coltrane
Journey In Satchidananda
(Impulse!, 1970)
Yoga master Swami Satchidananda gets an interstellar shout-out on Alice Coltrane’s fourth solo album, an otherworldly exploration of Middle Eastern, African, and Indian music that shakes, rattles, and soothes the soul without breaking for a single breather. Charlie Haden, Pharoah Sanders, and Cecil McBee all make an appearance, too, adding dizzying layers to a sturdy […]
Peter Broderick Taps Chad
VanGaalen For Animated
“Ode To Blackberry” Clip
Peter Broderick has unveiled the first official video from his Blackberry album, a trippy, animated take on “Ode To Blackberry” by fellow musician Chad VanGaalen. “What an honor to have Chad’s animation accompanying this tune,” says Broderick. “During my brief stint working in a record shop in Portland several years ago, Chad stopped in one […]
Phew Makes Us a Playlist
of Japanese Punk Music
Photography MASAYUKI SHIODA Fearless. That’s how we’d describe Phew, a seminal member of Japan’s underground music scene since the late ’70s. Back then, the Osaka native was the singer in the short-lived punk band Aunt Sally, an absolute must for anyone who’s into the bolder sides of Siouxsie and the Banshees and PiL… if you […]