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ALARM’s 11 Favorite Albums of 2013

At long last, ALARM unveils its 11 favorite albums of 2013 — a list of amazing music that you won't…

ALARM’s 51 Favorite Albums of 2013

Saving the best for last, we've chosen our 51 favorite albums of 2013, pulled from the acclaimed and the unsung…

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…

Raging solos, Bonham-esque beats, and white-robe canvases in Life Coach’s “Fireball” video

Now a duo with guitarist Phil Manley (Trans Am, The Fucking Champs) and drummer Jon Theodore (ex-The Mars Volta), Life…

Stream Tomahawk’s Oddfellows, our favorite album of 2013

Spin is streaming the entirety of Oddfellows, the first album in nearly six years from the super-group Tomahawk (Mike Patton…

Hive mind: Ex-Battles looper Tyondai Braxton does the Guggenheim

Former Battles loop guru / singer Tyondai Braxton will debut his new music/art installation in the Guggenheim in March. And…

MP3 Premiere: Wires Under Tension’s “Landscape Architecture”

With a title and album cover evocative of Ridley Scott’s 1982 dystopian classic Blade Runner, Wires Under Tension’s second album,…

Interview: Battles in the club — remixes and the art of the B-side

Earlier this year, experimental rock trio Battles released Dross Glop, a four-EP series of remixed versions of the band's acclaimed…

ALARM Magazine is back! Download free July/August issue for iPad

ALARM Magazine is back! Get a free iPad download of our July/August issue, featuring Omar Rodriguez Lopez of The Mars…

Fresh batch of Battles dates

Battles has announced a fresh batch of tour dates for June, mostly around the Midwest and East Coast and including…

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…

Lineup for OFF Festival 2012 (Katowice, Poland)

Poland's much-loved OFF Festival returns August 3-5, featuring ALARM favorites such as Battles, Converge, Baroness, Henry Rollins, Other Lives, Swans,…