Meemo Comma Shares the Stories Behind Sleepmoss, a ‘Romantic Eulogy to Fall and Winter’
Photography ELEANOR HARDWICK If there’s one question we’ve gotten sick of answering since moving to Minnesota it’s “how do you deal with the weather? Isn’t it cold there?” Well yeah, but that’s kind of the point. Living in a city that has four distinct seasons and actually values the restorative power of nature — according to […]
Free the Robots Makes Us a Mixtape of Original Pilipino Music
Photography BRENDAN GOCO The roots of Free the Robots’ latest record (Datu, due out November 7th on Astral Travels) can be traced back to a Manila trip nearly a decade ago — one that pushed the producer towards learning more about Filipino music and his own background. The full-length really took flight in 2014, though, […]
Patriarchy is the Snuff-Metal Band We Deserve, Guided By the Spirit of David Bowie and Dionysus
Photography AGUSTIN HERNANDEZ If you ask Actually Huizenga how seven years of solo work — culminating in one hell of a surreal Bruce Springsteen cover — bled into her new “snuff metal” band Patriarchy, the multi-medium artist is hesitant to call it a project at all. More like a much-needed storytelling medium, poked and prodded […]
Ecker & Meulyzer Turn a Tense Dance Score Into a Mood-Altering Meditation on Climate Change
A mood-altering meditation on climate change
Grand River Makes Us an Experimental Mix Featuring Meredith Monk, Steve Roach, Biosphere and More
Words + Mix AIMÉE PORTIOLI Photography UNDERSKIN This mix was recorded in my home in Berlin on a cold evening at the beginning of autumn. For the opening, I used old recordings of percussive instruments; I really like the resonances and the warm timbre that they have. I added some extra percussive sounds on top […]
A Winged Victory For the Sullen Make Us a Sprawling Mix, From Julia Holter to Hans Zimmer
Words + Mix ADAM WILTZIE Photo JÓNATAN GRETARSSON Whatever your expectations are, lower them… Unfortunately, I am not like Robert Evans, who had an interesting anecdote for every second of his life. I seem to have what the intergalactics call a very planetary mind, but I put this mix together on Nov 1st, 2019, the […]
Ozzy Osbourne Taps Members of Miike Snow, Guns ‘N Roses, and Red Hot Chili Peppers For New Album Ordinary Man
Ozzy Osbourne has shared his first solo material in nearly a decade. Available below, “Under the Graveyard” is the lead single from the Black Sabbath frontman’s long-awaited new LP. Due out early next year, Ordinary Man features Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan, and Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith, and Miike Snow frontman […]
Christopher Tignor Makes Us a Prepared Music Playlist, From Ellen Fullman to The X-Ecutioners
Words CHRISTOPHER TIGNOR Photography EBRU YILDIZ There’s as wide a range of music made using novel approaches to instruments as there are ways of preparing these instruments. Perhaps our first question should be, novelty aside, why bother? My personal feeling is that now, more than ever, we need new methods we can believe in to […]
Mamiffer Shares the Stories Behind Her Mind-Altering New Album The Brilliant Tabernacle
Words FAITH COLOCCIA Photography ETHAN DELORENZO The following paragraphs were taken from notes I gave to our producer Randall Dunn. I wanted to work with him on an abstracted emotional level with this recording (The Brilliant Tabernacle, now available through SIGE Records), where he would transform the sounds psychologically to meet the magical needs of […]