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Swans announces double album and massive tour

Legendary experimental-rock act Swans has a new double album, The Seer, coming 8/28 on Young God. Michael Gira and co.…

Beats & Rhymes: Blue Sky Black Death’s Noir

Each Monday, Beats & Rhymes highlights a new and notable hip-hop, rap, DJ, or electronic record that embraces independent sensibilities.…

Contest: Win a CD copy of Blue Sky Black Death’s Noir

Blue Sky Black Death: Noir (Fake Four Inc., 4/26/11) Blue Sky Black Death: "And Stars, Ringed" [audio:https://alarm-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/03-And-Stars-Ringed.mp3|titles=Blue Sky Black Death:…

Swans: An Art-Rock Ensemble’s Raw Return to Form

With My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky, songwriter Michael Gira and his influential, experimental Swans…

Fire On Fire: Starting Over

Out of the ashes of "art-punk-prog-chaos" sextet Cerberus Shoal, the tortured, backwoods folk hymns of Fire On Fire were born,…

James Blackshaw: Upholding a Rich 12-String History

Though he’s been hailed as a twelve-string-guitar virtuoso for the better part of five years, James Blackshaw didn’t really graduate…