Lichens

This year’s edition of Brooklyn’s annual Brain-Cave Festival happens April 25 and 26 at Baby’s All Right with an eclectic lineup both days, and visuals both days…

Earlier this year, Sleep and Holy Sons played NYC and now Sleep’s Al Cisneros and Holy Sons’ Emil Amos are on the road with their collaborative psychedelic band Om (which also features Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe aka Lichens live)…

After not presenting an Unsound Festival in the USA for 2013, the event came back with some great shows recently in NYC. The Saturday night (4/5) performance was the debut show at The Wick, a 700 capacity room that is housed in the old Hittleman Brewing building on Meserole St in Bushwick (which also houses sister venue The Well)…

It comes as certain ideas from techno’s fertile, experimental, mid-1990s period are being picked up by a range of underground musicians. Many of these ideas have permeated so deeply into the culture that it’s hard to remember a time without them, but we wouldn’t have Burial, to name just one of the duo’s distant descendants, without Porter Ricks’ seafloor crackle and mottled-granite color scale…

Innovative Chicago label Kranky Records are celebrating their 20th anniversary this winter with a series of hometown shows. The series features Grouper, Stars of the Lid with the Wordless Music Orchestra, Tim Hecker, Lichens, and many more…

Stars of the Lid in NYC in 2008 (more by Chris Owyoung) Veteran ambient duo Stars of the Lid haven’t played the US in five years, but that will change this fall…

Om were supposed to tour over the summer in support of their new album, Advaitic Songs, but had to reschedule the tour due to Emil Amos’ arm injury…

The new (officially now) at Europa (more by Chloe Rice) Om, now officially a three piece with the addition of Robert Lowe (Lichens) to the lineup, will take to the road in celebration of the Advaitic Songs, the band’s new LP due on Drag City on July 24th…

DOWNLOAD: DIamond Terrifier – “It’s Already After The End Of The World” (Freedom Garden 10-8-11) (MP3) Diamond Terrifier (aka Sam Hilmer of Zs) is introducing his new bi-weekly series, ‘PRACTICE…

Northside Festival got off to a sweaty start yesterday, but luckily, the weather held out. I don’t think I’m alone in saying that last night may have been the most stacked…