From the return of Sunn O))) to Blood Incantation’s death-metal space odysseys to anarcha-feminists Ragana, these are the metal records we loved this year.
Though bass-boosting subwoofers are everywhere nowadays, Damon Krukowski argues that, for certain styles of music, these low-end behemoths are actually ruining our listening experiences.
We closed out 2009 with our annual review of the year's 50 best albums.
Greg Anderson and Stephen O'Malley on Tony Conrad, crowdsurfing, their musical history, and their stunning new LP.
The 10th Øya Festival featured a diverse range of indie-friendly music from Sonic Youth to Clipse, the National to Girl Talk, My Bloody Valentine to Sigur Rós, Okkervil River to Sunn 0))) as well as a host of big Now artists-- Cut Copy, Fleet Foxes, No Age, Yeasayer, Lykke Li, the Bug, and Lindstrøm, among others.
We continue our celebration of two decades of Sub Pop with 20 of our staff's favorite albums from the Seattle label.
The second and final installment of Pitchfork's The Year in News hearkens back to that hazy, distant latter half of 2006.
We wind down the year in metal with another look at records from Gojira [above], Isis, Profundi, Asunder, and many more.
The Buddha Machine is a perfect marriage of idea, programming, and design, but it's having a rougher go of it as an inspiration for the creation of more traditional music.
Everyone from indie kids to headbangers navigated Norway's fast-growing festival, which featured not only local favorites like 120 Days and the New Violators, but Morrissey, Beck, the Knife, Yoko Ono, and many more.
Ahead of the release of Subliminal Genocide, we speak to U.S. black metal star Malefic (Xasthur).
Kevin Drumm, Peter Sotos (Whitehouse), and Mark Solotroff (Bloodyminded) sit down to discuss the latest from Agalloch [above] and other recently released records.