Swans Archives

10 Experimental shape-shifting greats.

A darker, more nuanced version of the band that dims the lights and pours the wine.

Hear new track “It’s Coming It’s Real.”

100 albums that transformed punk into a dark, experimental art form.

A retrospective on one of the most influential labels in underground and electronic music.

Michael Gira also plans to keep catalog in print.

Plus Carcass, Swans, Wolves in the Throne Room, Chelsea Wolfe.

Last week Treble observed its annual mid-year survey, the best albums of the year so…

Today is Friday, which means new music is dropping into our laps. Among the notable…

It’s an impressive enough feat to make a double-length album that holds together well without…

Michael Gira’s last album with the current Swans lineup is a hurricane of horrific musical power.

Hear an excerpt from the title track.

Twenty albums we can’t hear soon enough.

A look at a powerful reclamation of artistic vision, 25 years later.

A round-up of gift ideas for the music lover in your life.

Vinyl box set also features 1992’s Love of Life.

Album will serve as fundraiser for new studio album, the last of the current incarnation of the band.

The best tracks that flew under the radar in the “alternative” decade.

Live album to be a fundraiser for new (and possibly final) studio album.

Find out where to begin with this complicated, art-damaged and short-lived genre.