Reviews

In Sierra Leone, Janka Nabay repopularized Bubu music, a genre steeped in the country’s ancient mythology. Reportedly, a young boy sacrificed his own life to

For their latest release >>, Beak> return us to their Bristol recording room to present the newest of their stark, doom-gaze mutations. Whether the double

POP is a large three-letter word. It packs a wallop in the music writing world. The use of the word is usually fairly broad or

The idea of escape has become almost warped by a barrage of dreamy acts whose lyrics wind around the impossible and intangible, skating emotional catharsis

Australian post-punk act Slug Guts return with Playin’ in Time With the Deadbeat this week, the band’s most definitive work to date. The album is

Raw Sewage Roq is the most apt title conceivable for the latest Timmy’s Organism album. There isn’t the slightest amount of irony or cheekiness in

“I'm just a happy kid / stuck with the heart of a sad punk” –Nada Surf, “Happy Kid.” This is the album—Joyce Manor is the

Lawrence Arabia, a.k.a. New Zealand songwriter/producer James Milne, is a lounge lizard, swooping through sultry songs with only the slightest shake of his shoulders, the

Wet Hair’s new album, Spill into Atmosphere, with its entreating vocals and percolating keys that pervade each sprawling track, is its most accessible work to

Lumerians' are collaborators in the truest sense of the word. While some bands can play their songs, many never join together to become one creative