Mar 20, 2019 Music Web Exclusive

Parting ways with Rough Trade following the mild disappointment of their 2017 English Tapas platter, the Nottingham austerity-punk duo Sleaford Mods have, for their fifth album "proper," formed their own imprint and made a new record that is as bleak as it is bold, as funny as it is despairing, and as surprisingly tuneful as it is atonal and hard. More

Mar 19, 2019 Music Web Exclusive

Any doubts that one may have about Karen O (enigmatic lead singer of Yeah Yeah Yeahs) and artist/producer Danger Mouse (Gnarls Barkley, Broken Bells, Gorillaz, etc.) making strange bedfellows are quickly dismissed upon hearing the imaginative and gratifying Lux Prima. More

Mar 18, 2019 Music Issue #65 - Mitski and boygenius

In a robotic world, genuine rock 'n' roll is still worthy of acclaim. These days, the household names are Kurt Vile, The War on Drugs, and Courtney Barnett, but we might want to add Strand of Oaks to that list.  More

Mar 15, 2019 Music Issue #65 - Mitski and boygenius

While listening to this latest dour record from UK art-rockers Foals, it is tempting to wonder what might have happened if they'd lent into the goofier side of their sound ("Cassius, it's over!"/"One step!  More

Mar 14, 2019 Music Web Exclusive

The Exbats distill the vibrant history of pop music into 2- to 3-minute anthems that recall everything from The Archies to The Ramones. More

Mar 13, 2019 Music Web Exclusive

SPELLLING, aka Chrystia Cabral, Sacred Bones' new radical star, is full of extraterrestrial vibes. Mazy Fly, Cabral's second album, is total '80s, but also The X-Files, The Twilight Zone, or a more fucked up version of The Sound of Music.  More

Mar 12, 2019 Music Web Exclusive

In an era of laptop DJs and SoundCloud rappers, how on earth can a guitar still sound cool? Well, if you're asking yourself that question, you've obviously never heard the singing axe of Steve Marion.  More

Mar 11, 2019 Music Web Exclusive

Presumably becoming friends during a 23-date tour from San Francisco (The Fillmore) to Atlanta (MJQ Concourse) in the fall of 2007, Aesop Rock (Ian Matthias Bavitz) and TOBACCO (Thomas J. Fec) parlay, 12 years later, in a synthesizer time warp as disorientation duo Malibu Ken.  More

Mar 08, 2019 Music Issue #65 - Mitski and boygenius

After causing a stir with her debut EP, the magnificently titled Thrush Metal, the much-lauded Australian singer/songwriter rocks up with her debut full-length, with only one song (more on that later) making the transition from said EP to debut proper. More