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Review: Hush Arbors / Arbouretum’s Aureola

On its split LP with Hush Arbors, Baltimore quartet Arbouretum effectively lays waste to anyone who’s ever bowed at the…

Moses Supposes: Major labels brace themselves for loss of their most popular catalog in 2013

Moses Avalon is one of the nation’s leading music-business consultants and artists’-rights advocates and is the author of a top-selling…

Guest Playlist: Viva Voce’s songs for the apocalypse

Viva Voce: The Future Will Destroy You (Vanguard, 6/21/11) Viva Voce: "Analog Woodland Song" [audio:https://alarm-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Viva-Voce-Analog-Woodland-Song.mp3|titles=Viva Voce: "Analog Woodland Song"] Kevin…

Q&A: Pillars & Tongues

Pillars & Tongues: The Pass and Crossings (Endless Nest, 6/28/11) Pillars & Tongues: "The Making Graceful" [audio:https://alarm-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/05-The-Making-Graceful.mp3|titles=Pillars & Tongues: "The…

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: The War on Drugs

The War on Drugs: Future Weather EP (Secretly Canadian, 10/26/10) The War on Drugs: "Comin' Through" [audio:https://alarm-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/cominthrough.mp3|titles=The War on Drugs:…

ALARM Dispatches: Japandroids

Four years since its first show, Japandroids played back-to-back shows, on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, in Chicago.…