This Week’s Best Single

This Week’s Best Single: Trash Talk’s Awake

Trash Talk: Awake (True Panther, 10/11/11) Trash Talk: "Awake" Most bands are content to squeeze a couple of songs onto…

This Week’s Best Single: Colin Stetson’s Those Who Didn’t Run

Colin Stetson: Those Who Didn't Run (Constellation, 10/4/11) Colin Stetson: "Those Who Didn't Run" (excerpt) Saxophonist Colin Stetson's distinctive reed work…

This Week’s Best Single: Nick Waterhouse’s Is That Clear

Nick Waterhouse: Is That Clear (Innovative Leisure / Stones Throw, 9/27/11) Nick Waterhouse: "Is That Clear" [audio:http://alarm-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/01-nick_waterhouse-is_that_clear.mp3|titles=Nick Waterhouse: "Is That…

This Week’s Best Single: MonstrO’s Anchors Up!

MonstrO: Anchors Up! (Limited|Fanfare, 9/20/11) MonstrO is a newly formed hard-rock quartet featuring a melange of experienced heavyweights: drummer Bevan…

This Week’s Best Single: BK-One’s Tema Do Canibal EP

BK-One: Tema Do Canibal EP (Rhymesayers, 8/29/11) BK-One: "Tema Do Canibal" (Video Edit) [audio:http://alarm-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/BK_One-Tema_Do_Canibal_Video_Edit.mp3|titles=BK-One: "Tema Do Canibal" (Video Edit)] As…

This Week’s Best Single: Battles’ My Machines

Battles: My Machines (Warp, 8/16/11) Battles: "My Machines" (feat. Gary Numan) [audio:http://alarm-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/battles-my-machines-ft.-gary-numan.mp3|titles=Battles: "My Machines" (feat. Gary Numan)] This week, experimental…

This Week’s Best Single: Jono McCleery’s Wonderful Life / Garden

Jono McCleery: Wonderful Life / Garden (Counter, 6/27/11) Jono McCleery: "Garden" [audio:http://alarm-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/02-Garden.mp3|titles=Jono McCleery: "Garden"] Wonderful Life / Garden, the new…

This Week’s Best Single: Bonnie “Prince” Billy’s There Is No God 10″

Bonnie "Prince" Billy: There is No God 10" EP (Drag City, 6/21/11) Bonnie "Prince" Billy: "There is No God" [audio:http://alarm-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/01-There-Is-No-God.mp3|titles=Bonnie…

This Week’s Best Single: Niki & The Dove’s The Fox

Niki & The Dove: The Fox (Sub Pop, 6/14/11) Niki & The Dove: "The Fox" [audio:http://alarm-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Niki-and-the-Dove-The-Fox.mp3|titles=Niki & the Dove: "The…

This Week’s Best Single: Antibalas’ Rat Race / Se Chifló 12″

Antibalas: Rat Race / Se Chifló 12" (Exactamundo, 6/7/11) Antibalas: "Rat Race" Brooklyn-based Afro-funk collective Antibalas is back with its first…

This Week’s Best Single: Battles’ Ice Cream

Battles: Ice Cream (Warp, 5/24/11) Battles: "Ice Cream" [audio:http://alarm-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Ice-Cream.mp3|titles=Battles: "Ice Cream"] With its new album, Gloss Drop, due out on…

This Week’s Best Single: My Morning Jacket’s Holdin on to Black Metal

My Morning Jacket: Holdin on to Black Metal (ATO, 5/17/11) My Morning Jacket: "Holdin on to Black Metal" [audio:http://alarm-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/My-Morning-Jacket-Holdin-On-To-Black-Metal.mp3|titles=My Morning…