Review: Hush Arbors / Arbouretum’s Aureola
On its split LP with Hush Arbors, Baltimore quartet Arbouretum effectively lays waste to anyone who’s ever bowed at the…
13 years ago
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Review: Torche’s Harmonicraft
There’s no actual rule saying that heavy bands have to dilute their heaviness when they indulge in melody -- or,…
13 years ago
Review: Battles’ Dross Glop
As a companion to last year’s Gloss Drop, the inversely titled Dross Glop consists entirely of Battles’ Gloss Drop music…
13 years ago
Primus: Back on the Bike, Going “Green”
With its first full-length album in a dozen years, oddball rock trio Primus displays a new-found vigor thanks to newly…
13 years ago
Amon Tobin: An Electronic Pioneer’s “Field Work”
With his new album, DJ and electronic artist Amon Tobin has made the complete transition to using and manipulating sound…
14 years ago
Record Review: Soundgarden’s Live on I-5
Soundgarden: Live on I-5 (Universal / A&M, 3/22/11) In an interview conducted on A&M Records' Hollywood lot around the release of…
14 years ago
Dimmu Borgir: Symphonists in Satan’s Service
The tenth release from Norwegian black metallurgists Dimmu Borgir is an epic symphony, employing the Norwegian Radio Orchestra and the…
14 years ago
Ben Goldberg: A Clarinetist’s Journey into “Radical Jewish Culture”
Ben Goldberg's infatuation with the clarinet inspired him to combine traditional Jewish klezmer music with jazz to create a wild,…
14 years ago
Cory Allen: Playing with Perception and Dissolving Identity
It’s rare to think of tranquil music as “unlistenable,” but Austin, Texas ambient musician Cory Allen’s latest album, Hearing Is…
14 years ago
The Bad Plus: Known for Transforming Others’ Work, Brawny Jazz Trio Turns Focus Inward
Stripped of the band’s most tried and true novelty, Never Stop reveals what The Bad Plus could have exploited all…
14 years ago
Ben Perowsky’s Moodswing Orchestra: Cohesive Collisions of Rock and Jazz
Even after several decades of cross-pollination between the worlds of rock and jazz, it could be argued that a true…
14 years ago
Autolux: Patience for a “Perfect” Sequel
Five years since the release of Future Perfect, Autolux's full-length debut, the alt-rock trio only recently announced labels for its…
15 years ago