Implodes: Black Earth (Kranky, 4/20/11) Implodes: "Marker" [audio:http://alarm-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/02-Marker.mp3|titles=Implodes: "Marker"] According to Chicago-based drone-rock band Implodes, its new album, Black Earth,…
Disappears: Guider (Kranky, 1/17/11) Disappears: "Halo" [audio:http://alarm-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Halo.mp3|titles=Disappears: "Halo"] Chicago-based rock band Disappears feels pigeonholed. After having just released its second…
Montreal-based ambient electronic artist Tim Hecker recorded his most recent album, Ravedeath, 1972, in one day with a single church…
Chicago-based rock band Disappears played a hometown show at the Empty Bottle recently, performing material from its most recent release,…
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…