Kyle Gilkeson

Guest Playlist: Junior Boys’ musical motivation

Junior Boys: It's All True (Domino, 6/14/11) Junior Boys: "ep" [audio:https://alarm-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/JuniorBoys_ep.mp3|titles=Junior Boys: "ep"] With a new full-length, It's All True,…

Video: Hail Mary Mallon’s “Meter Feeder”

Hail Mary Mallon, the new hip-hop group featuring Aesop Rock, Rob Sonic, and DJ Big Wiz, just released a video…

Guest Spot: Carla Kihlstedt’s Necessary Monsters

Carla Kihlstedt & Matthias Bossi: Still You Lay Dreaming: Tales for the Stage, II (12 Cups, 2/1/11) Carla Kihlstedt & Matthias…

Intronaut launches remix competition

Prog-metal band Intronaut has teamed with collaboration specialist Indaba Music to remix the title track from its latest album, Valley of…

Neon Marshmallow Music Festival June 10-12 @ Empty Bottle

Now in its second year, The Neon Marshmallow Music Festival will take place June 10-12 at the Empty Bottle in Chicago.…

Concert Photos: Do Division Street Fest (Chicago, IL)

This past weekend, over 20 bands took to two stages on one of Chicago's major thoroughfares, Division Street. The performances…

Tinariwen’s new acoustic album, Tassili, out 8/30

Tassili, the new album from Tuareg blues band Tinariwen, will be released on August 30 on Anti-. The Saharan rockers went…

Beirut to release new album on August 30

Balkan-pop band Beirut's first album in four years, The Rip Tide, will be released August 30 via frontman Zach Condon's own…

Video Premiere: See-I’s “Soul Hit Man”

See-I: s/t (Fort Knox, 6/28/11) See I: "Homegrown" [audio:https://alarm-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/06-homegrown-2011.mp3|titles=See-I: "Homegrown"] Washington, DC-based reggae duo See-I has been performing and crafting…

Primus to release first studio album in 11 years

Primus fans rejoice; Green Naugahyde, the new album from Les Claypool and company will be released on September 13 via…

Guest Playlist: Neurosis’ most vital predecessors

Neurosis: Souls at Zero (Reissue) (Neurot, 2/15/11) Neurosis: "To Crawl Under One's Skin" [audio:https://alarm-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Neurosis_Souls_To-Crawl-Under-One-s-Skin.mp3|titles=Neurosis "To Crawl Under One's Skin"] Earlier…

This Week’s Best Single: Antibalas’ Rat Race / Se Chifló 12″

Antibalas: Rat Race / Se Chifló 12" (Exactamundo, 6/7/11) Antibalas: "Rat Race" Brooklyn-based Afro-funk collective Antibalas is back with its first…