On the first proper Underworld record in half a decade, the duo of Karl Hyde and Rick Smith continue to place matters of the heart at the center of their best songs.
The Portland experimental metal outfit have made their simplest record yet, one that is less sprawling than their earlier releases and scarier for its concision.
The 21-year-old Detroit rapper ZeelooperZ is a member of Danny Brown's Bruiser Brigade. On his latest mixtape, he tries to push the boundaries of conventional rapping.
Boston's Horse Jumper of Love are a self-proclaimed "slow rock" trio whose combination of wan croons, melancholic strumming, and ramshackle production place their music in Microphones territory.
Composer Zach Cooper's debut album blends acoustic instruments, synthesizers and electronic effects into a,shifting whole that's part chamber music, part post-rock, and part musique concrète.
NewsMarch 13 2016
In its heyday, fabled Twin Cities venue First Avenue fostered the legend of everyone from from Prince to the Replacements to Hüsker Dü, becoming a mythic musical destination in the process.
Inspired by the idiosyncratic brilliance of ’90s artists like Missy Elliott and TLC, 20-year-old Oakland rapper Kamaiyah is looking to revive that era’s sense of originality while putting her own skills as an MC to the fore: “I want young women to know that they don't have to be a sex symbol to get love.”
Sheer Mag's music stuffs hip-shaking hooks and burly riffs within impeccably structured pop songs, wrapped in lyrics both open-hearted and openly political. They’re the Jackson 5 raised to play punk rock, with an F-5 tornado for a singer.
Chris Clark, a.k.a. Clark, composed the score for a moody British TV serial called The Last Panthers. Here, he shapes this incidental music into a flowing 48-minute suite that conjures almost as much of a story as the show itself.
DJ Katapila is a Ghanaian DJ who has become known for his marathon sets. His own production borrows as much from early Chicago house and Detroit techno as from Ga dance music, and boasts a remarkable sense of humor.
Fake Boyfriend's debut EP Mercy merges post-punk with the poppier indie-rock stylings associated with acts like Waxatachee and Girlpool, full of thrashing guitar blasts and churning bass.