Hear Shining’s new album; watch the Crimson-jazz brutality of “21st Century Schizoid Man”
Progressive, jazz-influenced industrial-metal band Shining has a brand-new album. Listen to it...or else. Then watch an amazing live clip of…
12 years ago
King Crimson
Nine Inch Nails returns to stage with new lineup in 2013
Trent Reznor has announced that four years after its last tour, Nine Inch Nails will be back on stage in…
12 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…
13 years ago
Primus: Back on the Bike, Going “Green”
With its first full-length album in a dozen years, oddball rock trio Primus displays a new-found vigor thanks to newly…
13 years ago
Ancestors: Mythological Prog Metal
Ancestors' tries its hand at "nerdy storytelling music" with Neptune with Fire, chronicling the mythological King Neptune's burden of holding…
13 years ago
Guest Spot: Gutbucket explains how to argue about food
Gutbucket: Flock (Cuneiform, 2/22/11) Gutbucket: “4 9 8” [audio:https://alarm-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/03-4-9-8.mp3|titles=Gutbucket: "4 9 8"] Brooklyn-based jazz-rock quartet Gutbucket released its fifth album,…
14 years ago
Q&A: Jono El Grande
Jono El Grande: Phantom Stimulance (Rune Grammofon, 2/1/11) Jono El Grande: "Borrelia Boogie" [audio:https://alarm-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Jono_El_Grande_Borrelia_Boogie.mp3|titles=Jono El Grande: "Borrelia Boogie"] The off-kilter…
14 years ago
Matt Stevens: Guitar Virtuoso Finds an Audience Online
For British guitarist Matt Stevens, the widespread digital distribution of his music via the Internet has meant more than major…
14 years ago
Krallice: Classically Inspired, Ambient Black Metal
The members of Krallice come from a variety of backgrounds -- math metal, punk jazz, death metal -- but their…
14 years ago
La Otracina expands heavy-psych sound with Reality Has Got to Die
Brooklyn's La Otracina has been surfing the "new wave of psychedelic heavy metal" for seven years, impressing with its powerful…
14 years ago
Black Cobra: Coast-to-Coast Stoner Sludge
Californian stoner-metal duo Black Cobra discusses the perks and difficulties of maintaining a band with a long-distance relationship. With 400…
14 years ago
Pink Mountain: Hodgepodge Collective With a Darwinist Twist
Scott Rosenberg of P.A.F. fame brought together a motley crew of musicians to form Pink Mountain. What resulted was something…
17 years ago