DeVotchKa album
DeVotchKa is in the studio to record a follow-up to A Mad and Faithful Telling
14 years ago
Scott Morrow
P.O.S teaches cup routine from “Optimist” at raw-food joint
For Immaculate Infatuation, a music-driven NYC food blog, P.O.S was invited to Pure Food and Wine to grab some eats…
14 years ago
Bill Dixon RIP
Legendary jazz composer/trumpeter Bill Dixon has passed away at the age of 84. (Read his obituary here.) This news comes…
14 years ago
Mastodon / Jonah Hex
Mastodon's six-track EP of material from the Jonah Hex soundtrack is being released digitally on June 29. The full score,…
14 years ago
T-minus 10 days to submit for Chicago Public Library design contest
Early last month, the Chicago Public Library opened its competition to use its short URL, www.chipublib.org, in an original Library-inspired…
15 years ago
Sage Francis debuts track with Yann Tiersen, lists tour dates
Prefix Magazine has premiered "The Best of Times," a single from rapper/poet Sage Francis' forthcoming album, Li(f)e. The track, whose…
15 years ago
50 Unheralded Albums from 2009
ALARM leaves no genre unloved in our round-up of 50 albums that didn't receive enough attention in 2009.
15 years ago
Zach Hill: Compositional inspirations inform demented tech-pop debut
Inspired less by drummers and more by instrumentalists such as John Coltrane, Jimi Hendrix, and Ornette Coleman, drumming virtuoso Zach…
16 years ago
Contest: FREE Tickets for Orange Tulip Conspiracy’s May Tour
Covering vast swaths of sonic territory in any given few songs, Orange Tulip Conspiracy channels prog fusion, psychedelic rock, 1950s…
16 years ago
Orange Tulip Conspiracy Necessitates Musical Unpredictability
As one of the principal songwriters in Estradasphere, guitarist/composer Jason Schimmel has always loved combining disparate styles in new and…
16 years ago
Kevin Hufnagel of Dysrhythmia Finds Inspiration in Composer John Cage
Whirlwind guitarist Kevin Hufnagel, one third of math-metal trio Dysrhythmia and half of atmospheric duo Byla, has released a beautiful,…
16 years ago
Q&A: Jazz Bassist Matt Ulery Explores Chamber Scores with Solo Compositions
Bassist/composer Matt Ulery has spent the last half of this decade entertaining Chicago with his involvement in chamber-jazz outfit Loom,…
16 years ago