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Zach Hill: Compositional inspirations inform demented tech-pop debut

Inspired less by drummers and more by instrumentalists such as John Coltrane, Jimi Hendrix, and Ornette Coleman, drumming virtuoso Zach…

Weekly Music News Roundup

Serengeti and Polyphonic sign to Anticon; Isis, Tera Melos, and The Dead Kenny Gs announce tour dates; a release date…

Win Two Tickets to See Dub Trio at Chicago’s House of Blues

Dropped-D dub-metal pioneers Dub Trio return to Chicago this coming Monday, March 16 in support or Irish punk rockers Flogging…

Ten Albums to Anticipate This Spring

As the weather stops being oppressive in the Northern Hemisphere, a number of potentially great albums from countless genres are…

ALARM’s Top 10 Albums of 2008

Our list of favorites from last year includes devastating dub metal, organ-fueled psychedelic grind, a re-released classic-rock gem from nearly…

Weekly Music News Roundup

Details emerge about new albums from Isis, Tortoise, Akron/Family, and Stinking Lizaveta; Zu announces some dates for a world tour…

18 Albums on our Radar in 2009

This year promises to be a great one for music. Isis, The Bad Plus, Mastodon, Dan Deacon, Coalesce, Jerseyband, Converge,…

Zu: Modern Genius or Noisy Rubbish?

We've had a bit of that debate in the office of late, with online editor Scott Morrow weighing in on…

Video: “Chop Socky” by Tipsy

Built around the lounge-heavy mixture of cut-and-paste artist Dave Gardner, Tipsy has a new live lineup that recreates the quirky…

Weekly Music News Roundup

Fantômas plays The Director's Cut in its entirety, Jon Brion posts an instrumental tune, Tim Fite releases a free Halloween…

The Top 10 Record Label Names

Lord knows that there are thousands of record labels in the world. So how does one go about separating itself…

Interview: Dub Trio

Long car rides, too much gas-station coffee, and being surrounded by incompetent drivers on the California interstate have made the…