The paradox of all great ambient music is that it sounds easy to create, but it isn’t. All the different parts are simple, but the way they come together is not. This has always been the case with both Ulla… Read More
Open Up To Me (Kerron sinulle kaiken) is Finnish director Simo Halinen’s award-winning 2013 drama portraying the tribulations of Maarit Majantie, a middle-aged trans woman. Now employed as a janitor, she’s trying to rebuild both her professional career as a… Read More
Donald Trump made history this week as the only U.S. president to ever be impeached twice, and making his week worse there's a online campaign demanding his cameo in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York be scrubbed from the movie.… Read More
The full tracklist for The Problem of Leisure: A Celebration of Andy Gill and Gang of Four has been announced. In addition to Tom Morello & Serj Tankian's cover of "Natural's Not in It," the tribute contains covers by IDLES… Read More
Perfume Genius has announced an album of remixes of songs from Set My Heart On Fire Immediately, which we named the 5th best album of 2020. IMMEDIATELY Remixes is due out February 19 via Matador (pre-order), and it includes remixes… Read More
For the past few years, if you wanted to discuss one of the most mysterious projects in electronic music, your best bet was to copy/paste. Beginning in 2017, someone started uploading music under the alias ⣎⡇ꉺლ༽இ•̛)ྀ◞ ༎ຶ ༽ৣৢ؞ৢ؞ؖ ꉺლ—a bewildering… Read More
When Elvis Costello crashed into the consciousness of rock fans in 1977 with his debut album, My Aim Is True, he seemed like the bastard son of Buddy Holly and Johnny Rotten, the personification of the angry young nerd inside… Read More
The worlds that the Shanghai Restoration Project create are unfailingly sublime. Soothing, the group intrigue with their intricacies rather than overwhelm. Over the last 15 years, the duo have moved from Shanghai’s streets as reimagined on their 1930s jazz-influenced eponymous… Read More
CARM (aka yMusic co-founder CJ Camerieri) is one week away from releasing his guest-filled self-titled album (due January 22 via 37d03d), which features appearances by Bon Iver's Justin Vernon, Sufjan Stevens, My Brightest Diamond's Shara Nova, Mouse On Mars, and… Read More
Jan St. Werner and Andi Toma will release new album AAI (Anarchic Artificial Intelligence) on February 26 via Thrill Jockey. Their last proper album, 2017's Dimensional People featured loads of cool guests but was on the experimental tip, but this… Read More