Column
Plus Uniform, Illuminati Hotties, Ka, The Softies, Spirit of the Beehive, Nicole Miglis, and Cocteau Twins & Harold Budd
Recorded three years before ‘Stop Making Sense,’ this concert film is the new wave legends at their psychic-groove best
Plus Mavi, Oso Oso, Fucked Up, Belong, and Spoon
Before the fall schedule heats up, here are some outstanding metal albums you should hear
Plus JPEGMAFIA, Blood, Moses Sumney and Poison Ruin
Plus Klein, State Faults, Respire, Dave Harrington and Pat Metheny
Everything we’re obsessed with this month, from avant garde Japanese new wave to ’80s sophisti-pop to Baltimore club
Plus Oneida, Beachwood Sparks, and Zelienople
Plus Cassandra Jenkins, Jay Worthy and Dam-Funk, Jake Xerxes Fussell, Meridian Brothers, and Orquesta Akokan
Plus Previous Industries, SML, The Drin, Dirty Three, 200 Stab Wounds, Danny Paul Grody Duo, Shackleton & Six Organs of Admittance and Sour Widows
A perfect prog album, one rarely acknowledged as such.
Plus Kronos Quartet and friends, Aseethe, Royal Headache, Bangladeafy, and Sufjan Stevens
Argentinian jazz-funk, abstract coldwave, post-punk-funk, contemporary cumbia, and more
Plus The Decemberists, REZN, Bad Breeding, Ulcerate, Fu Manchu, Crypt Sermon, Hermanos Gutierrez, Mono, and Royal Trux
Plus Peggy Gou, Shrapknel, Pedro the Lion, Marina Allen, Candy, and Umbra Vitae
A look back at more than three decades of jangle, fuzz and hooks.
Plus Bat for Lashes, Idaho, BEAK>, HHY and the Macumbas, Bad Nerves, and Can
Plus La Luz, Carlos Niño and Friends, Gastr Del Sol, Aluminum, Young Jesus, Bill MacKay and Brian Eno, Holger Czukay and J. Peter Schwalm