A single microphone was hanging from the rafters. This was the scene about a minute after the end of Culture Abuse’s opening set for their show at the Music Farm on Saturday with joint headliners Joyce Manor and Wavves. Out of the three bands there, they were the only ones I hadn’t heard prior to…
With streaming now counting more heavily towards the Billboard charts, artists of even a semi-popular status have tried to game the charts with longer records consisting of an almost overwhelming number of songs. Admittedly, there have been several records that I can say have managed to use their time and space to some efficiency, be…
Although they’ve been operating in their own unique capacity for the better part of eighteen years, Animal Collective have slipped up several times. The most prominent instance of this would be 2016’s ill-advised return to being a “pop band,” Painting With. The record ended up being divisive among fans, and personally left me a bit…
IGLOOGHOST is one of the most exciting new electronic music producers to pop up in recent years, releasing his debut album Neō Wax Bloom last week on Flying Lotus’ Brainfeeder label. His songs are a frenetic, always-shifting style, never content to stay in one place for too long — a style/tendency best exemplified by his…
Twenty years on from the release of their debut record, Godspeed You! Black Emperor are still dedicated to bringing forth the orchestral nature of chaos. Luciferian Towers is their second full album of new material since their reunion in 2010. Taking a different tone from their previous two records in its more celebratory sound, this…
James Murphy has always been a big fan of rock music, in case he didn’t make it obvious with the previous 3 albums in his time as frontman of LCD Soundsystem. And so naturally, in 2011, he brought the band to a showstopping finish with a massive event of a concert, straight out of the…