The Berlin-based artist pays tribute to her native Lima, Peru in bittersweet house music that wears its spiritual yearning on its sleeve.
The release of Zack Snyder’s Justice League offers both the director and soundtrack composer Tom Holkenborg the chance to indulge their every whim. The resulting movie and score are both aggressively long, ambitiously overstuffed, and deeply polarizing.
As the New Orleans sludge-metal icons clean up their act, Mike IX Williams’ once-indecipherable howls and Jimmy Bower’s detuned blues riffs come to the surface.
Andrew PM Hunt’s fourth album as Dialect blends vaporwave, field recordings, and sketch-like fragments into an unbroken whole. The result owes as much to collage as to composition, with an emphasis on flow.
In this Rising interview, the New York singer-songwriter talks about making art out of interactions with strangers and how her experiences with the late indie legend David Berman inspired her brilliant new album.
Boosted by the YouTube recommendations algorithm, and now TikTok memes, an American-influenced strain of vintage Japanese music has become a perennial cult hit online. The trend says more about Western perceptions of the East than the other way around.
In the second episode of a two-part documentary, producers Madlib and Kaytranada learn more about the installation of the custom in-dash record player in the Lexus IS Wax. Madlib then takes the Lexus IS Wax Edition for a spin to premiere his and Kaytranada’s exclusive double-sided single. Produced by Pitchfork with Lexus.
Underneath the ill-advised MLK quotes, you’ll find an earnest pop album that unearths the charisma and agility that helped make Bieber a star.
Jacob Buczarski’s cerebral, complex melodic black metal is an elegy for a dying planet. There is little hope on offer here, but plenty of silvery, well-executed riffs.
On their latest EP, the band crumples up angst and complacency and offers a simple, singular diagnosis: you may feel numb, but fight.
Mixing metal and noise with ritualistic howls, the Indonesian duo’s seventh album is a thrilling, at times ecstatic serenade to the collapse of civilization.