Grails

Best Albums: Marty Friedman, Watter, Son Lux, Seun Kuti & Egypt 80, Hundred Waters

Marty Friedman: Inferno Watter: This World Son Lux: Alternate Worlds Seun Kuti & Egypt 80: A Long Way to the…

Best Albums: The Birds of Satan, Lilacs & Champagne, Fucked Up, Pharoahe Monch

The Birds of Satan: s/t Lilacs & Champagne: Midnight Features Vol. 1: Shower Scene Fucked Up: Year of the Dragon…

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…

Best Albums: Grails, Deltron 3030, Prefuse 73 & Teebs, Melt-Banana

Grails: Black Tar Prophecies Vol. 4, 5 & 6 Deltron 3030: Event II Sons of the Morning: Speak Soon Vol.…

Bliss and paranoia: Lilacs & Champagne’s AV samples in a weird VHS trip

Lilacs & Champagne, the production moniker of Grails’ Alex Hall and Emil Amos, creates music that sounds like the constant…

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…

ALARM’s 50 (+5) Favorite Songs of 2012

Last month ALARM presented its 50 favorite albums of 2012, an eclectic, rock-heavy selection of discs that were in steady…

ALARM’s 50 Favorite Albums of 2012

Another year, another torrential downpour of albums across our desks. As always, we encountered way too much amazing music, from…

Review: Grails / Pharaoh Overlord’s Black Tar Prophecies, Vol. 5 / self-titled

Tied together by a mutual appreciation of psychedelia, this split record by Portland’s Grails and Finland’s Pharaoh Overlord is a…

Video: Om’s “State of Non-Return”

Om’s new video for "State of Non-Return," from Advaitic Songs, is a six-minute exercise in Eastern-influenced drone-and-doom mastery.

Review: Om’s Advaitic Songs

Borne from the rhythm section of stoner-metal trio Sleep, Om has spent nearly 10 years combining drone and sludge with…

Review: B. Dolan’s House of Bees Vol. 2

On his new mixtape, indie rapper B. Dolan continues to flex his lyrical and intellectual muscle while bridging the gap…