Demdike Stare

Earlier this year, forward-thinking electronic musician Andy Stott followed 2014’s Faith In Strangers with a new album, Too Many Voices. It’s more of his gorgeous downtempo sound…

The Hopscotch Music Festival returns in 2016 to various Raleigh, NC venues from September 8-10. The lineup is impressive as always, with Television, Wolf Parade, Converge, Baroness, Yob, Tribulation, Erykah Badu, Young Thug, Sylvan Esso, Vince Staples, Anderson Paak, Beach House, Beach Slang, Andrew Bird, Cobalt, Downtown Boys, Julien Baker, Quilt, Lambchop, Lavender Country, Big […]

You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight’s shows, but here are some highlights… Torche, Nothing, Wrong @ Saint Vitus This bill is pretty amazing all around, with “stoner pop” band Torche, whose new album is their heaviest in a while and most psychedelic yet, plus heavy shoegazers Nothing and Miami’s WRong (ex-Capsule, Kylesa)…

The upcoming Big Ears Festival happening March 27-29 in Knoxville, TN, has been expanded once again. Like in past years, the festival will include a film portion, and a selection of that has been curated by filmmaker/musician Jim Jarmusch and Michael Gira, whose respective bands SQURL and Swans were already o…

The lineup has been expanded for the 2015 Big Ears Festival, happening March 27-29 in Knoxville, TN. New additions include psych pioneers Silver Apples, former Battles frontman Tyondai Braxton (performing HIVE), Syrian pop singer Omar Souleyman, folk singer Ryley Walker, guitar wiz William Tyler, modern classical collective Bing & Ruth, electronic/ambient musician Loscil, cabaret singer Little Annie, and Chinese composer Wu …

Big Ears Festival will return to various Knoxville, TN venues in 2015 from March 27-29, and the initial lineup was just announced. Kronos Quartet will be the artists in residence for the weekend and perform at several co…

Andy Stott at Pitchfork Fest 2013 (more by Cory Dewald) Millie & Andrea is the collaborative project of IDM mastermind Andy Stott and Miles Whitaker of dark ambient duo Demdike Stare…

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…

The Polish-based experimental/electronic Unsound Festival took 2013 off in NYC (it did happen in other countries though), but it will return for another installment this year from April 2 – 6 at various venues, including Cameo Gallery, Issue Project Room, BAMcinematek, The Wick, Lincoln Center, and others…