There are concerts you attend out of convenience, and then there are the ones you chase miles away, days circled on your calendar, shows you just know are going to be one-of-a-kind.
Ahead of opening for Mount Eerie, the Brooklyn-based artist offers her thoughts on the Bhagavad Gita, bad advice, and Barry Keoghan.
New single from the prolific London-based POWERPLANT. With a slew of singles, EPs, and a couple LPs since 2018, this band has been busy
"The more I live, the more I’m actively trying to see how much I can enjoy life. How much joy can I actually allow myself?"
On her third album, 'From Newman Street,' Kassi Valazza uses humble landscapes to ground existential musings on the passage of time and navigating change.
Valazza is a songwriter's songwriter, the kind of lyricist who makes it embarrassing to describe her with such a cliché.
Cross-country travels with a young folk artist searching for stable ground
Following a divisively tuneful 2021 album, the California post-metal band returns to its signature sound on its sixth album. But these heavy, soaring songs also hint at unexplored terrain.
The saxophonist and jazz poet (real name Angus Fairbairn) hit the jujitsu mat at a Wall Street dojo.
On the British saxophonist and poet’s graceful new album, the reminders to savor each day and to forgive oneself feel less like jazz tunes than wordless hymns.
tep into the pixelated mists of Quest Master. Australian dungeon-synth artist Lord Gordith (better known among punks as Gordo Blackers of Steröid) launched Quest Master onto the scene in 2017 with a double cassette titled Lost Songs of Distant Realms, which uses Yamaha and Casio keyboards to evoke nostalgia for 90s RPGs and their epic journeys and battles in eight-bit worlds populated by knights and dragons. The release became a sensation among chiptune appreciators and fantasy enthusiasts, and in 2019 it was reissued on CD and vinyl by Out of Season—one of the first American labels to concentrate on dungeon synth.
While some listeners might baulk at the earnest spoken-word incantations, you can’t argue with DePlume’s outstanding melodies, played with tremulous vibrato