Theo Parrish
There are hard truths to be gained from burst myths. So it was in 2017, when I interviewed the respected Chicago DJ/producer Ron Trent about the birth of “deep house,” a dance-music genre often reduced to a palette of muted… Read More
Author: Karma Oak
“The Streets Where I Belong”: Annie Captures the Feeling of Moving Back Home
“I let the music take me home to the streets where I belong.“ Hey Annie, well…look at you. It’s been 16 years since the Norwegian crooner first burst onto the scene with 2004’s critically hailed Anniemal, chock full of instant… Read More
For Don DeLillo, 'The Silence' Is Deafening
Paradoxes abound in The Silence, Don DeLillo’s latest novel. Its subject—the end of contemporary life as we know it—is huge. Its size is small, barely over 100 pages. Its premise is high concept: on Super Bowl Sunday, 2022, all technology—a… Read More
21 New Songs Out Today
So many artists, so little time. Each week we review a handful of new albums (of all genres), round up even more new music that we'd call "indie," and talk about what metal is coming out. We post music news, track premieres, and more all day. In… Read More
Lee Ranaldo, Reggie Watts & others on new album of Timothy Leary’s words (listen)
The late Timothy Leary, the psychologist and writer known for helping to popularize psychedelic drugs during the counterculture movement of the 1960s, for writing The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on The Tibetan Book of the Dead, and for coining… Read More
Spirit Adrift, Blood Incantation, Enslaved, Crowbar & more upcoming & archived metal livestreams25 Punk & Heavy Metal Toys We Really Want to Own
It's always a good time for metal, but when the weather gets colder, the leaves change color, and Halloween nears, it becomes an even better time for metal, so fortunately there are a lot of cool livestreamed metal concerts on… Read More
Romy of The xx releases debut solo single, “Lifetime”
Earlier this year, The xx singer/guitarist Romy Madley Croft revealed plans to release her debut solo album. She also did a solo guitar and voice preview of the song "Weightless" on Instagram, but promised that the album would be a… Read More
Goat Girl announce new album ‘On All Fours,’ share “Sad Cowboy”
London band Goat Girl have announced their second album, On All Fours, which will be out January 29 via Rough Trade. The group worked again with producer Dan Carey (Black Midi, Kae Tempest), but where their debut was swaggering indie… Read More
Uncensored 'Native Son' (1951) Is True to Richard Wright's Work
Don’t push me ’cause I’m close to the edge I’m trying not to lose my head It’s like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder How I keep from going under – Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, “The Message”… Read More
Quakers (Portishead’s Geoff Barrow, more) prep first LP in 8 years – stream a track
Production collective Quakers – aka Katalyst (Ashley Anderson), Fuzzface (Geoff Barrow of Portishead & Beak>), and 7-Stu-7 (Invada Studios engineer Stuart Matthews) — came out of eight-year hibernation earlier this month, dropping a 50-track beat tape via Stones Throw. Now, Quakers have announced their second proper studio album, The Next Wave, which will be… Read More