America is in a state of emergency. A kleptocratic reality television star–a fraud–has been ushered into the White House by a minority of voters and with the assistance of a hostile foreign power. His message: …
Manchester native Daniel Land is an artist whose reputation precedes him. His shoegaze-inspired work with Daniel Land & The Modern Painters was described by The Guardian as “a magnificent, magical and monolithic slice of shoegaze …
Nine days ago many Americans woke up in a country they no longer recognize–a nation in which bigotry, misogyny, xenophobia, and all of the bitter human traits a civil society does its best to tame …
In less than a month, Gdańsk will again become the “intergalactic capital of Poland,” as some of the greatest innovators in noise converge upon the Baltic coast for Spacefest! to do what they do best: …
London’s Rodney Cromwell is out with a new single following up on his critically acclaimed debut album Age of Anxiety. The track, Fax Message Breakup (Happy Robots Records), is a dark four minutes of lo-fi …
They say youth is wasted on the young, but the four teenagers who make up Los Angeles indie rock outfit Love Ghost aren’t into squandering their prime. They’re too busy mining the 90s musical landscape, …
Fellow Denverites A Shoreline Dream have been creating their unique fusion of subterranean rock sounds for a long time now–since 2005, to be exact. Throughout this decade they’ve experimented with different methods of distributing their …
Boston experimental space rock trio Dyr Faser is out with a new single ahead of their fourth EP, Trio, out in October. Estranged, a spaghetti western tinged stream-of-consciousness slow-burner that clocks in at just over …
Aussie shoegaze outfit Bloodhounds On My Trail is out with a new single following up on their 2015 debut EP, Escape II. A spacey and accessible foray into shoegaze and new wave sounds, Over The …
I Tpame I Tvrame is a new act producing dark, minimal cold wave sounds from the Baltic States. The Albanian duo, consisting of Franc Kurti and Dina Hajrullahu, calls their sound “a sort of mixture …
CNN’s new poll showing Donald Trump beating Hillary Clinton by a couple of points is grabbing headlines and raising eyebrows. Not only does it contradict basically every other poll out there (this NBC News/SurveyMonkey poll, …
When San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick refused to stand up for The Star-Spangled Banner before Friday’s preseason game against the Green Bay Packers, he knew his action would stir controversy. Based on statements made …
“Wild mood swings” is a phrase that may enter your mind when listening to Portland trio Vibrissae’s debut album, Somewhere Away. Not because it sounds like The Cure’s 1996 masterpiece–though, interestingly, the band cites The …
People love sloths. They’re cute as hell, slow as molasses, and, unfortunately, many are super-endangered. There’s a whole internet subculture dedicated to the adorableness of sloths: Cute baby sloths, sloths getting potty trained, Super Cute Sloths …
“The only revolution in which the goal is a desegregated lunch counter, a desegregated theater, a desegregated park, and a desegregated public toilet; you can sit down next to white folks on the toilet. That’s …
Editor’s note: The following article discusses events within some of the first five episodes of HBO’s The Night Of and contains spoilers. It is written under the assumption that the reader has watched the first …
There’s no other way to put this, so let’s cut to the chase: Nobody is doing what Thud is doing. Nobody comes close. There are a lot of bands out there effectively trying to capture …
We humans tend to tie music to the milestones of our short lives. Whether it’s a birthday, wedding, or bar mitzvah, it doesn’t take a lot of looking to find a DJ or streaming radio …
Residents of Denver take solace: You’re not too high. Denver’s mobile data speeds are the worst. Literally. According to RootMetrics, an analytics firm that says it “scientifically tests[s] mobile network performance around the world,” Denver’s …
Republicans have this curious habit of loudly decrying something for a hot minute before doing a complete 180 and appropriating that exact same idea without attribution or even the slightest hint of self-awareness. Perhaps it’s …
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