The Beatles

Q&A: Citizen Won’t Stop Moving Forward

Whether or not the guys in Citizen planned on hitting the scene loudly with their first album Youth, released in…

Best Albums: Melvins, Bryce Dessner & Kronos Quartet, Czar, Phuture Doom

Melvins: Tres Cabrones Bryce Dessner & Kronos Quartet: Aheym Czar: No One Is Alone If No One Is Alive

Father John Misty’s secret weapon: Dimitri Drjuchin’s bright, mystical eye candy

Born in Moscow, NYC-based artist Dimitri Drjuchin creates riddle-like eye candy in his posters and illustrations, working with comedians and…

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: Ty Segall’s Twins

A fitting finale to his trifecta of releases this year, Twins finds garage-rock singer-songwriter Ty Segall not so much settling…

Video Premiere: Sweet Lights’ “Are We Gonna Work It Out”

As a steadfast Beatles fan intrigued by creating conversations between old and new music, Capitol Years leader Shai Halperin uses…

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…

The Groove Seeker: True Soul: Deep Sounds From the Left of Stax, Volume 1

On a biweekly basis, The Groove Seeker goes in search of killer grooves across rock, funk, hip hop, soul, electronic…

Guest Spots: Thursday’s list of 10 absurd/wonderful Beatles songs

Thursday: No DevoluciĆ³n (Epitaph, 4/12/11) Thursday: "Magnets Caught in a Metal Heart" [audio:http://alarm-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/07-Magnets-Caught-In-A-Metal-Heart.mp3|titles=Thursday: "Magnets Caught in a Metal Heart"] New…

Q&A: Alarm Will Sound

Alarm Will Sound: 1969 By the end of the 1960s, The Beatles had been absent from any kind of live…

World in Stereo: Those Shocking, Shaking Days: Indonesian Hard, Psychedelic, Progressive Rock and Funk, 1970-1978

World in Stereo examines classic and modern world music while striving for a greater appreciation of other cultures. V/A: Those…

Q&A: Colin Stetson

Colin Stetson: New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges (Constellation, 2/22/11) Colin Stetson: "Judges" [audio:http://alarm-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/02-Judges.mp3|titles=Colin Stetson: "Judges"] Powerful, otherworldly, and beautiful,…