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Boris Sign to Sacred Bones,
Announce New Album W
Photo YOSHIHIRO MORI Boris have announced their debut LP for Sacred Bones, the first to feature guitarist Wata on lead vocals since 2011’s Attention Please album. Due out January 21st, W is the spiritual successor to last year’s NO LP (NO + W = NOW), leaning into a largely melodic sound that dabbles in everything from noise to New Age. […]
Chris Liebing On…
10 Essential Mute Tracks
Photo EDITH BERGFORS Words CHRIS LIEBING Releasing music on my all-time favorite label Mute is definitely one of the biggest thrills of my lifetime. No other label has inspired, formed, and solidified my taste as much as it has. This is why picking “10 essential Mute tracks” is a nearly impossible task; many bands that […]
Baroness’ Drummer
Breaks Down 10 of His
Favorite Baroness Songs
Words SEBASTIAN THOMSON In 2013, Baroness suffered a serious bus accident while on tour in the UK. One of the consequences was that original drummer Allen Blickle was unable to tour any longer. At the time, I had been working with my band Trans Am and my solo project Publicist. [Baroness frontman] John Baizley and […]
Leo Abrahams Makes Us a
Mixtape of Playful Music
Words LEO ABRAHAMS The Morton Feldman piece that closes this playlist is his final work. Whereas his early pieces allowed for a degree of improvisation, by the end of his life he was writing fully notated music. Yet his method retained an improvisatory aspect — albeit on the part of composer rather than performer. He […]
Roedelius & Story Reveal
Harold Budd Tribute
Photography EMILY RAMHARTER Roedelius & Story — the new piano-led project from longtime friends / collaborators Tim Story and Hans-Joachim Roedelius — have unveiled the second official single from their Erased Tapes debut 4 Hands. Streaming exclusively below, “Haru” is a melancholic tribute to fellow composer Harold Budd, who passed away a year ago today […]
Christopher Bono’s
Rough Guide to Laraaji
Words CHRISTOPHER BONO I first heard Laraaji‘s music the day after I first met Laraaji. I sat down for lunch at Ananda Ashram, where I was taking a Nada Yoga Sitar workshop with the late sitar master Roop Verma, and serendipitously happened to sit across from Laraaji and his wonderful musical partner Arji OceAnanda. I had no idea […]
Kevin Whelan On…
The Songs That Shaped
Aeon Station’s Debut Album
Photography EBRU YILDIZ “It’s the best I’ve done and may ever do frankly,” Kevin Whelan says when asked about Observatory, his debut album under the name Aeon Station. “It’s written over such a long period of my life. Music I did in the past was tinged with expectations or presumptions, but this time, it was […]
Princess Century Presents
Her ‘Flying Dreamer’ Mix
Words + Mix MAYA POSTEPSKI I like listening to music on airplanes because I don?t like the white noise from the engines, the announcements, other people, etc. I like to go on a ride into my own little bubble while looking out the window at the clouds, and I often begin to make little dreams […]
††† (Crosses) Cover
the Q Lazzarus Classic
“Goodbye Horses”
††† (Crosses) have shared an early Christmas gift for all the Far and Deftones heads out there. Streaming in full below alongside last year’s “The Beginning of the End” single, “Goodbye Horses” is a spot-on cover of the Q Lazzarus classic many of you may remember from Silence of the Lambs. While details are still slim […]
Teen Daze On…
Enter The Zenmenn
Enter The Zenmenn by The Zenmenn Words JAMISON ISAAK 2021 was a surprisingly good year for music, or at least music that seemed to be geared directly for me. While this year saw some vast improvements on humanity’s general way of life, I still feel like we’re all in search of a bit of comfort, […]
Ian Chang On… Son
Son by Rosie Lowe & Duval Timothy Words IAN CHANG One release that I had on repeat this year is Son (Carrying Colour) by Rosie Lowe and Duval Timothy. Like many others, I spent most of 2021 at home, and this album was a peaceful and meditative companion to being in an enclosed private space. […]
Niagara On…
The Mask of the
Imperial Family
The Mask Of The Imperial Family by Yasuo Sugibayashi Words NIAGARA Yasuo Sugibayashi’s music is always a rediscovery, and this year it happened again with a special kind of force. Hard to remember given its complexity, and hard to place given its uncompromising character, The Mask of the Imperial Family (Mimic Records, 1981) will always […]