Alessandro Cortini

Long-running music blog Gorilla Vs Bear’s year-end lists are always pretty different from your average Best Albums list, albeit in a way that fits in with its trippy dreampop tastes. Their 2017 top spot goes to Yaeji for her pair of 2017 EPs…

The annual Raleigh, NC music festival also includes Angel Olsen, Big Boi, Margo Price, Afghan Whigs, The Make-Up, Mary Timony Plays Helium, and more.

‘Tis the season for festival news, as more lineups continue to come in seemingly every day. Today it’s Hundred Waters‘ annual FORM Arcosanti, the third edition of which goes down in the Arizona desert from May 13 – 15, featuring Tortoise, Thundercat, Four Tet, Perfume Genius, Bill Callahan, Julia Holter, Julianna Barwick, Dan Deacon, Dawn Richard, Autre Ne Veut, Skrillex, fest curators Hundred Waters, and many more…

Barcelona’s Primavera Sound festival returns from June 1-5, and as always, the lineup is pretty amazing. They’ve got Radiohead, LCD Soundsystem, Sigur Ros, PJ Harvey, Tame Impala, The Last Shadow Puppets, Air, Brian Wilson (performing Pet Sounds), Beach House, Suede, Beirut, Animal Collective, Pusha T, Action Bronson, Explosions in the Sky, Moderat, John Carpenter, Vince Staples, Drive Like Jehu, Deerhunter, Dinosaur Jr, Richard Hawley, Kamasi Washington, Neon Indian, Battles, Ty Segall, Julia Holter, Destroyer, Thee Oh Sees, Titus Andronicus, Tortoise, Mudhoney, Boredoms, Royal Headache, Shellac, Dungen, Beach Slang, Venom, Unsane, The Chills, Holly Herndon, Psychic TV, Mbong…

Like in past years, several Don Giovanni Records artists have given us lists of their favorite music (and more) of the year. This time we’ve got lists from Downtown Boys (who, amazingly, include the blink-182/Drake mashup), Screaming Females, Tenement, Izzy True, Shellshag, Worriers, Mikey Erg, Vacation, Aye Nako, Roadside Graves, comedian Chris Gethard, and label co-founder

The 2016 edition of Moogfest will happen May 19 – 22 in Durham, North Carolina. This year’s lineup includes Explosions in the Sky, Sunn O))), Gary Numan, Blood Orange, Julianna Barwick, The Orb, Holly Herndon, Daniel Lanois, Simian Mobile Disco, Ben Frost, Floating Points, Kode9, Hundred Waters, Empress Of, Mad Professor, Moses Sumney, Mac McCaughan, Lunice, Ryan Hemsworth, Tim Hecker, YACHT and more…

Gaslamp Killer at SS Coachella 2012 (more by Greg Cristman) The 2014 Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival recently announced its lineup and now the day-by-day, venue-by-venue schedule has been broken down…

As mentioned, Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival returns to various Brooklyn venues from November 7-8, and since we last spoke the lineup was announ…

As mentioned, Nine Inch Nails are back with a new album, Hesitation Marks, which is due out on September 3 via Columbia. They’ve already released its first single, “Came Back Haunted” (which has a David Lynch-directed video on the way) and now they’ve revealed more details on the album, including its tracklist and full list of collaborators, via Rolling Stone…

Grizzly Bear are on the cover of the new issue of NY Magazine, which makes two weeks in a row that Brooklyn was prominently featured. Despite making it into Billboard’s Top 10 with their new album, Shields, the band still aren’t making a lot of money…