Best Albums: Hasidic doom jazz, rap’s “bad character,” and Big Sur beauty
Deveykus: Pillar Without Mercy
Quasimoto: Yessir, Whatever
Bill Frisell: Big Sur
Pop socks: Miike Snow adorns feet with jackalopes
Miike Snow and Happy Socks team up in a Swedish power pairing that will leave your feet covered in jackalope silhouettes.
Unlocking the Truth: Not your typical ’tween music
Sixth-graders Jarad Dawkins and Malcolm Brickhouse expound on their lives as some of the youngest metal-heads around.
Hip helmet: A hand-painted job courtesy of Corpses from Hell
Maxwell Paternoster — designer and illustrator behind the motorcycle club Corpses from Hell — sat down in a London diner to adorn Ruby’s Castel helmet with his acid-trip vision. Here are the gold-leafed results, complete with melting greasers, zombie hands, and circuitry.
Amps to 11 (PM): Marshall’s Hanwell home-speaker system
As one of the most iconic names in amps over the past 50 years, Marshall is a name that’s synonymous with music. Now, for the first time, you can bring its sound and design to your living room with the special-edition Hanwell hi-fi home-speaker system.
5 last-minute Father’s Day gifts
Still haven’t picked out a Father’s Day gift this year? Let us suggest a few last-minute ideas.
Backstage Confidential: Brent Amaker on naughty bits and prison performance
When you’re on the road as much as country-western front-man Brent Amaker, you’re bound to see unusual things. And when your typical show includes burlesque dancers and “whiskey baptisms,” things can get downright weird.
A post-black-metal masterpiece, the heir to rap-core, and SW symphonics
Deafheaven: Sunbather
Integrity: Suicide Black Snake
The White Mandingos: The Ghetto’s Tryna Kill Me
Noxious Foxes: Epochalypso
Scale the Summit: The Migration
Calexico: Spiritoso
Doom, bloody doom: Cultura Tres’s ritualistic “Es Mi Sangre”
The video for “Es Mi Sangre,” by Venezuelan doom-metal band Cultura Tres, is a murky affair, filled with disturbing, ritualistic imagery and constantly flickering in and out of focus.
2013 and 1/3: The Best Albums of the 2010s (So Far)
Inspired by the third installment of The Naked Gun, we decided to compile our favorite albums over the first 3 1/3 years of the 2010s.
Ears for fears: The Flaming Lips’ liberation through Terror
The Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne and Steven Drozd discuss The Terror of what to do after trying everything.