Grayson Haver CurrinContributor

The rise of online gear stores has spawned a middle class of music memorabilia that benefits both bands and fans.

Artists including Bon Iver, Chance the Rapper, Wilco, and the Roots are giving the festival market a much-needed jolt.

In one of his final interviews, the late drummer recounts his family’s troubled history and his most formative early life experiences, including the death of a beloved brother.

From its beginnings in the late '60s to today, psychedelic folk has aimed to absorb, acknowledge, and update the past while meeting modern needs. Grayson Haver Currin picks some of the genre's best tracks from across the last 50 years.

Marc Masters and Grayson Haver Currin round up notable releases in the realms of avant-garde, experimental, and outsider music including records by Austin oddballs Shit and Shine, and the haunted blues of convicted murderer J.B. Smith.

This Brooklyn band made their name as brainy black metal lightning rods—a rep that often overshadowed their music and split them apart. Grayson Haver Currin tells of how they reunited for new album The Ark Work, which tries to answer questions about a genre that no one thought to ask.

Marc Masters and Grayson Haver Currin focus on artists whose work becomes its own genre, including L.A. multi-instrumentalist Steven R. Smith, Irish guitarist Cian Nugent, and New Orleans-based cellist Lelya McCalla.

As they prepare to reissue Spiderland, the record that that slowly turned them into post-rock heroes, David Pajo and Brian McMahan talk to Grayson Currin about their humble beginnings as teenage potty mouths and poke holes in their mythology.

In their last column of 2013, Marc Masters and Grayson Haver Currin reflect on some of the best experimental sounds of the year, including the sound-world of Félicia Atkinson and the "continuous music" of composer Lubomyr Melnyk.

The newest edition of Out Door finds Marc Masters and Grayson Haver Currin exploring different kinds of music history with noise-jazz legends Borbetomagus, guitarist and archivist Nathan Salsburg, and darkwave veterans Lycia.

The Los Angeles experimental punk duo talk to Grayson Haver Currin about breaking out of a creative slump by deciding to not only write the music for their new album, An Object, but to cut, print, box, stamp, and ship it themselves, too.

Grayson Haver Currin and Marc Masters run down some of their favorite under-the-radar LPs of the year, explore records that expand the sound of an electric guitar, and talk with Ohio rock vet Lamont Thomas and Italian singer Francesca Marongiu.