Tracks
Revengineers: "The Exploding Threat"
Anamanaguchi may have clinched the Scott Pilgrim soundtrack, but they’re not the only marketable chiptune act in town. Since Team...
Mar 29, 2012
Records
Burial: Kindred EP
DJ/musicologist Terre Thaemlitz laments the erasure of the “hyper-specific” (specifically, queer, regional) origins of house music into a vague, superficially...
Mar 28, 2012
Records
Miryo: MIRYO a.k.a. JOHONEY EP
I wouldn’t exactly call myself a K-pop expert, but over the last several weeks I’ve become something of an obsessive....
Mar 28, 2012
Records
Cursive : I Am Gemini
It is an odd truth about theatricality that in order to evaluate it honestly one must first ignore it completely....
Mar 28, 2012
Records
Nacho Picasso and Blue Sky Black Death: Lord of the Fly Mixtape
Rare is the type of second chance Seattle’s Nacho Picasso and production duo Blue Sky Black Death have—after their largely...
Mar 28, 2012
Tracks
Beck: "Looking for a Sign"
Beck hasn’t released an album since 2008’s Modern Guilt—a long time for the usually prolific artist. He’s been taking a...
Mar 23, 2012
Tracks
Silkken Laumann: "On the Mend"
With apologies to aspiring filmmakers everywhere, it’s next to impossible for anybody not named Michael Mann to make consumer-grade or...
Mar 22, 2012
Records
Julia Holter: Ekstasis
The remarkable new album by Julia Holter unfolds within the space of a difference: “This is not ekstasis / This...
Mar 22, 2012