Projecting a Spectacle: Candystations’ Deborah Johnson creates electrifying concert experiences
If you’ve been wowed by the projections at a Sufjan Stevens or St. Vincent show in the past few years,…
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DJ Shadow
Contest: Win tickets to see DJ Shadow in Chicago
ALARM has two tickets to see DJ Shadow’s genre-mashing live show in Chicago on December 7, and out of the…
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DJ Shadow announces new rarities collection
DJ Shadow has reached back into his archives to compile a new rarities collection, Total Breakdown: Hidden Transmissions From The…
13 years ago
Zack de la Rocha joins DJ Shadow on stage at Coachella
Watch Rage Against the Machine’s Zack de la Rocha join DJ Shadow on stage at Coachella last weekend, performing "March…
13 years ago
50 Unheralded Albums from 2011
In just one more trip around the sun, another swarm of immensely talented but under-recognized musicians has harnessed its collective…
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Label Q&A: Quannum Projects
Quannum Projects Location: San Francisco, CA Year founded: 1992 Website: quannum.com Lateef the Truthspeaker: FireWire (Quannum, 11/8/11) Lateef the Truthspeaker:…
13 years ago
Video: DJ Shadow’s “Border Crossing”
Watch the political, grindhouse-style video for "Border Crossing," a track from DJ Shadow's recently released album, The Less You Know, the Better…
13 years ago
Guest Spots: Beans on fiending for a good whodunit novel
Beans: End It All (Anticon, 2/15/11) Beans: "Mellow You Out" [audio:https://alarm-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/beans-mellow-out.mp3|titles=Beans: "Mellow You Out"] You probably know longtime indie rapper…
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Soul Revival: Breathing New Life into Lost Albums
Record labels such as Stones Throw and Ubiquity offer new compilation and re-issue albums of forgotten DIY funk and soul…
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The Groove Seeker: J Rocc’s Some Cold Rock Stuf
On a weekly basis, The Groove Seeker goes in search of killer grooves across rock, funk, hip hop, soul, electronic…
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Stateless: Soulful, Worldly Electro-Rock
On its second full-length, Britain's Stateless bridges disparate genres with surprising ease. Its sound, at once indefinable and all-encompassing, gathers…
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Download Kenan Bell’s 31 Flavors for free
During the month of January, indie rapper Kenan Bell released a new song every day as part of the 31…
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