There are four interesting things about rototoms, a specific type of drum that plays an outsized role on YHWH Nailgun’s debut album. They were invented out of necessity in the e ...
Tom Waits said that "all songs are strange, when you're strange", and he would know better than most. Here are ten of the ...
Allison Russell has released the first taste of her next full-length project with “Superlover,” a plea for peace. Joining her ...
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Whitechapel's latest album, “Hymns in Dissonance," is definitively deathcore, emerging as their most brutal album in years, ...
Nancy Wilson of Heart compared the "dirty politics" of the U.S. during the Vietnam War to today, noting her sentiments haven't changed much since.
Darran Anderson nails his krautrock colours to the mast and declares Tago Mago, Egi Bamyasi and Future Days the best 3LP run ...
From starting on a Paul McCartney Höfner ripoff to pioneering some of the heaviest metal ever committed to tape, Tom Araya ...
Sometimes concerts come with a history lesson. Monday’s main event at New York’s City Winery was one such evening, as the ...
A Soviet-era Central Asian pop music anthology shines a light on the region's ethnic diversity and music that transcends genres from Korean brass bands to Uyghur garage rock to Crimean jazz.
“This is the first single of our new album ‘Songs of Last Resort’. The song is called ‘Warhead’ and it’s an aggressive statement about the absolute horrors of the world we now have to live in!” ...
The outlandish comedy “Operation Mincemeat” and sonic sensation “Buena Vista Social Club” double down on delight in the midst ...