Shintaro Sakamoto

100 albums to check out after watching the Other Music documentary

Including Animal Collective, Anohni, Belle & Sebastian, Neu!, Vashti Bunyan, Neutral Milk Hotel, Keith Hudson, Galaxie 500, Cornelius, Sun Ra, Vampire Weekend, Anti-Pop Consortium, Magnetic Fields, Cluster, El-P, The Fall, The Monks, Sharon Van Etten, Yo La Tengo, The Strokes, William Basinski, Serge Gainsbourg, Matana Roberts, TV on the Radio, The National, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Os Mutantes, and more.

Desert Daze 2019 set times revealed

The fest includes full-album sets from The Flaming Lips, Wu-Tang, and Ween, plus sets from DEVO, Flying Lotus, The Locust, Atlas Sound, and much more…

Desert Daze 2019 adds Wu-Tang, Ween, Devo, The Locust & more (full lineup)

Wu-Tang will play ’36 Chambers’ in full, Ween will play ’Chocolate & Cheese’ in full, plus Alvvays, Devo, Pussy Riot, Jessica Pratt, and more.

Lightning Bolt playing shows, including Desert Daze (updated lineup)

Lightning Bolt are also playing Denver Hex with Pig Destroyer, Dreadnought, The Body, The Dwarves, and more.

Utrecht's Le Guess Who? fest: initial 2018 lineup (Breeders, Vashti Bunyan, more)

Devendra Banhart, Asia Argento, Moor Mother and Sons of Kemet’s Shabaka Hutchings are guest curators for this unique festival that takes place in November in picturesque Netherlands city of Utrecht.

Yo La Tengo & friends celebrated 30 years @ Town Hall, playing NYE in Boston; James McNew lists his 'Best of 2014'

Then came the guests of honor: guitarist Ira Kaplan, drummer Georgia Hubley, and bassist James McNew. They began with “Ohm,” off of their 2013 record, Fade…

Vetiver readies 'Complete Strangers' (watch the trailer), gives us his Top 10 of 2014

Vetiver, aka Bay Area resident Andy Cabic, is set to release Complete Strangers, due via Easy Sound on March 24. Cabic made the album with longtime collaborator Thom Monahan in Los Angeles and he talks a little bit about the songs on this one here:The songs on Complete Strangers bear some resemblance to the album’s title…

Ex Cops releasing debut single on Other Music Recording Company, DJing on RSD, opening for Memory House

Brooklyn band Ex Cops release their debut single “You Are a Lion, I Am A Lamb” this Saturday (4/21, yes Record Store Day if you’ve forgotten)…