“Maybe BxC is just a big chile rellenos stuffed with meat and random crap, and 1975 is just a big carton of hardboiled eggs.”
By Jared Micah
On “The Battle of the Sexes” in Hip-Hop
By Ajitpaul Mangat
“Outside, the sun is shining. Remember that.”
By Derek Smith
“There’s still some paint-peeler guitar solos and no shortage of glorious mistakes.”
By John Crowell
Did I mention they have a shaman?
By K.E.T.
“With all the recent music, I think kids are turning against what is popular and going back to all of its most basic forms.”
By Ze Pequeno
“If I could do it again, I’d be sipping Dom P. watching Ghandi till I’m charged.”
By C Monster
“A guiltier pleasure than Foreigner 7-inches and a ‘Leader of the Band’ 45 (both of which I hold dear), to be sure.”
By Gumshoe
“We let go of our egos and found a way to trust each other.”
OMG! Just met Brian Eno!!! #diehappynow
By Eric Dawson
VFW vs. American Legion in a Steel Cage
By TMT Cerberus
“Back and forth between many different worlds.”
By Elliott Sharp
Non-Fiction. 480 pages. Chicago Review Press. Edited by Paul Maher Jr.
By Alex Peterson
“To me, music and art used to be the escape from a consumer society, not the main root of it.”
Basinski’s & Moston’s Disintegration Loops
By Jeff Rovinelli
“As a girl who was talking about sex, I was just ragged on immediately.”
Toward a theory of p(sych)oetics
“I want this record to be like a hex sign.”
“Lopatin killed it.”
By Matthew Horne
[Asbury Park, NJ]
By Willcoma
NGUZUNGUZU weaponize bass this summer with Warm Pulse EP on Hippos in Tanks
RIAA seeks $75 trillion in LimeWire copyright case, as if their plot for world domination was ever in question
Release the Bats label ends after 10 years, and it is likely your fault
Constellation readies second Musique Fragile box set: Pacha, Kanada 70, and Tony “Dr. Drone Ph.D” Conrad
Library of Congress rips 25 new entries to the National Recording Registry… but at what BIT-RATE?!?
Ain’t no party like a dabke party: Mark Gergis’ Sham Palace releases Dabke: Sounds of the Syrian Houran comp
Eternal Summers announce Correct Behavior LP for summer release, go on summer tour, cryogenically freeze themselves from September to June
Björk turns New York Public Library and Manhattan Children’s Museum into giant blobs of educationalism even tho we’re all plenty smart as is
Dominick Fernow starts up new label Bed of Nails in order to get another Vatican Shadow 12-inch out there
Awesome band returns after lengthy hiatus with new album, world tour: Dead Can Dance edition
Neneh Cherry & The Thing tour as a bright spot in the shadow of impending European meltdown
Planes Mistaken for Stars announce summer reunion tour, now feel your face and realize you’ve grown a beard