Watch Light Asylum Live at the New Museum
Dark Brooklyn duo Light Asylum graced the downstairs stage of Altered Zones' CMJ showcase alongside Atlas Sound, Eric Copeland, and Captured Tracks up-and-comers Dive for a set not to forget. Peep...
View ArticleSuuns: "Red Song"
In the undulating analog clip for "Red Song," the face of Suuns' Ben Shemie gets flexed by fingers and torqued in tracking. It could almost function as a surreal hostage tape for the self, if we could...
View ArticleGalapagos: "Feel Things Inside"
18-year-old Phoenician Jacob McNaughton, aka Galapagos, posted a chopped and chipmunked rework of Jennifer Hudson's "No One Gonna Love You" that has enough hiccuping pitch-shifted vocal stabs and...
View ArticleKeep Shelly In Athens: "Campus Martius"
Greece's Keep Shelly in Athens just dropped the title track from their forthcoming EP for Planet Mu. "Campus Martius" thickens as its layers of synth melodies envelop this appropriately autumnal...
View ArticleCulture Dealer Accepting Song Poem Submissions
Run DMT's Culture Dealer imprint is accepting lyrics submissions to make your very own song poems. For those unfamiliar with song poems, you should really watch PBS' documentary,Off the Charts: The...
View ArticleGrabbel and the Final Cut: "The Finest Thing"
Out of feedback squalls and a rushed drum count-off comes a massive guitar banger, "The Finest Thing," the newest of Captured Tracks' 7" shoegaze reissues, this one from German noiseists Grabbel and...
View ArticlePete Swanson: "Misery Beat"
Former Yellow Swans member Pete Swanson harnesses crystalline polyrhythms toward militant ends in "Misery Beat," a brash house music monster from his new Type Records LP, Man With Potential. The...
View ArticleHoly Other: "Touch (Live at Rewire Festival 2011)"
Fall's arrival has left me reminiscing about 2011's best music, and the ghostly R&B echoes of Holy Other's zoned in EP, With U, come quickly to my mind. In this YouTube video of his live...
View ArticleHubble: "Hubble's Hubble"
Today we are treated to the collaborative fruits of recently profiled artist Hubble and the telescope itself. Ben Greenberg, aka Hubble, crafted the ambient drone and mesmerizing fret taps of Hubble...
View ArticleBoy Friend: "Egyptian Wrinkle"
Between their known history and stylistic similarities, Christa Palazzolo and Sarah Brown's current project, Boy Friend, is destined to be compared to their former band-turned-solo-project, Sleep ∞...
View ArticleMaria Minerva, d'Eon Remix Peaking Lights
Maria Minerva and d'Eon just dropped their own versions of "Birds of Paradise" and "Hey Sparrow," adding to Peaking Lights' ever-expanding roster of top notch remixers that includes the likes of...
View ArticleResident Advisor Launches Digital Download Service
Online electronic music magazine Resident Advisor recently enhanced its service to provide users with high-quality downloads directly from its charts. Furthermore, users will now have the ability to...
View ArticleStream Co La's Daydream Repeater
Since its debut earlier this year, Matthew Papich's Co La project has always exuded the exotic and the luxurious. Papich indirectly admits this, but his forays into the "New Anything" sound are all the...
View ArticleFourth World Magazine: "StarChild's Birth"
Former Skaters, Monopoly Child Star Searchers, Vodka Soap, and Pacific City Nightlife Vision Band member Spencer Clark is now going by Fourth World Magazine. "StarChild's Birth" is yet another track...
View ArticleSuishou No Fune: "Cherry"
Pirako Kurenai and Kageo have been making minimalist guitar pieces together as Suishou No Fune since 1999, and with their latest live album, Bonsai No Ie, the duo's showing no signs of slowing down....
View ArticleArtist Profile: John Zorn
By Dale W. EisingerJohn Zorn: "Christmas Song (Ft. Mike Patton)"John Zorn is a complicated figure in the history of the American avant-garde. His performances are at times alienating, and on the whole...
View ArticleAZ Submitted A Song-Poem
A couple of weeks ago, we reported that Mike Collins' label Culture Dealer is accepting song-poem submissions for a new, limited cassette series. We couldn't resist, so we submitted our own that will...
View ArticleDayone: "Multiply"
That phosphorescent groove bubbling below "Multiply" comes from Sun Araw's Cameron Stallones and Los Angeles bretheren M. Geddes Gengras, collectively known as deep-roots dancehall curators Duppy Gun...
View ArticleAngus Maclise: Dreamweapon II
Finding success this year with two sold-out pressings from Angus Maclise-- the boho lifer who called John Cale a chump-- Boo-Hooray is issuing a third Maclise LP, Dreamweapon II, as well as limited...
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Artist Profile: Prince Rama
[photos by Coley Brown]By Ric LeichtungMP3: Prince Rama: "Portaling"MP3: Prince Rama: "Rest In Peace"Prince Rama is a band that's widely respected in the underground for their high energy performances...
View ArticleArtist Profile: James Ferraro
[Photo by Megan Mack]By Emilie FriedlanderJames Ferraro: "Earth Minutes"The musician, video artist, and perennial drifter James Ferraro first appeared in my life in the form of an idea, passed on by a...
View ArticleR.I.P. Altered Zones
Dear friends,Today, the road comes to an end. We are saying goodbye.Altered Zones was launched in July 2010 with the mission of highlighting small-scale DIY music from all over the world, and we...
View Article20 Tracks You Might've Missed
With 2,175 posts in 16 months, you're bound to miss something. We've gone ahead and gathered some of our favorite tracks from now and yesteryear that didn't get much play, but deserved it.20 Tracks You...
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Words For The Road
In our year-and-a-half on the information highway, we had the good fortune of witnessing what was at once a very prolific time, a very confusing time, and a very exciting time in underground music....
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2011: Albums
Before we say goodbye, we thought we'd bring you our collective favorite albums of 2011.Ash Borer: Ash Borer [Pesanta Urfolk]MP3: Ash Borer: "Rest, You Are The Lightning"Chillwave. It's been shoved...
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