Ivan & Alyosha: Fathers Be Kind (Missing Piece, 2/1/11) Ivan & Alyosha: "Glorify" [audio:http://alarm-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/05-Glorify.mp3|titles=Ivan & Alyosha: "Glorify"] Seattle indie-folk band…
Beans: End It All (Anticon, 2/15/11) Beans: "Mellow You Out" [audio:http://alarm-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/beans-mellow-out.mp3|titles=Beans: "Mellow You Out"] You probably know longtime indie rapper…
Benoît Pioulard: Lasted (Kranky, 10/11/10) Benoît Pioulard: "Sault" [audio:http://alarm-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/02-Sault.mp3|titles=Benoît Pioulard: "Sault"] Releasing music under the name Benoît Pioulard is one…
Starfucker: Reptilians (Polyvinyl, 3/8/11) Starfucker: "Bury Us Alive" [audio:http://alarm-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/03-Starfucker-Bury-Us-Alive.mp3|titles=Starfucker: "Bury Us Alive"] Portland, Oregon-based Starfucker (or STRFKR, if you're into…
Epstein is Roberto Carlos Lange, a.k.a. sample-based collage maestro Helado Negro. Known for dense pastiches of drum-machine beats and piled…
Tim Hecker: Ravedeath, 1972 (Kranky, 2/14/11) Tim Hecker: "Hatred of Music I" [audio:http://alarm-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Hatred_of_Music_I.mp3|titles=Tim Hecker: "Hatred of Music I"] Experimental electronic…
Meshuggah: "Re-Inanimate" (Catch Thirtythree, Nuclear Blast, 5/30/05) [audio:http://alarm-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/05-Re-Inanimate.mp3|titles=Meshuggah: "Re-Inanimate"] Extreme metal band Meshuggah tends to do exactly what it wants.…
The Boxer Rebellion: "Step Out Of The Car" (The Cold Still, Absentee, 2/8/11) [audio:http://alarm-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/02-Step-Out-Of-The-Car.mp3|titles=The Boxer Rebellion: "Step Out Of The…
Aaron Turner, founder of Hydra Head Records and frontman for pioneering metal band Isis, is no stranger to the art of…
Das Racist occupies a unique place in hip hop. Its free-associative rap goes a mile a minute, riddled with the…
We asked Todd Snider, to tell us about some of his favorite musical storytellers. What we got was a collection…
Though her music might not immediately suggest it, adventuresome pop singer Liz Janes has a particular fondness for noise and drone music.…