Album of the Week

After Axpona ended at 4:00PM on Sunday, I went to the hotel bar to say my farewells. I arrived at 4:45 because I spent some extra time listening to music with Michael Vamos and talking […]

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I came to Scott Walker (born Noel Scott Engel; January 9, 1943 – March 22, 2019) late, beginning with 1995’s Tilt. To say that Walker was a singular voice is to state the painfully obvious. […]

It was bound to happen. Inevitable, really.

My introduction to Norwegian composer and vocalist Maja Ratkje came in 2006 with her album Stalker, a picture disk, which is about as hardcore as you can get on one side, and softcore on the […]

“OAKE is emerging Berlin duo Eric Goldstein and Bathseba Zippora, who together alchemize their own variant of dark, atmospheric techno inspired by British post-Industrial acts and the occult.” You had me at alchemize.

Sometimes songs irritate me—melody, hooks, lyrics, and heaven forbid, a guitar solo. Sometimes I want, need?, noise. The more industrial, the better. Enter My Disco’s new album Environment in the nick of time.

Nivhek is Liz Harris who is also Grouper. If your taste in music are anything like mine, that’s all you need to know to know you want her new album After its own death / […]

Eva Moolchan sings and plays nearly everything on her new record Highway Hypnosis. While the music wanders through a number of styles, I find the ride completely enjoyable.

It was 1991. I was living in NYC and listening almost exclusively to contemporary classical music. Pierre Boulez and the Ensemble Intercontemporain were performing at Carnegie Hall with Maurizio Pollini, a favorite pianist who performed […]