Eleven albums in as many years suggest MC Taylor has no issues with writers’ block, that he must be in a constant state of productivity. Yet Terms of Surrender arrived not through clarity,
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The groundbreaking indie-noise-experimental stalwarts Stereolab continue their reissue campaign with three of their prime-period albums. The wide-ranging, devilishly melodic Cobra & Phases Group Play Voltage In The Milky Night
Read more →Shelley likes to talk about how deeply rooted her music is in the lineage of Kentucky music — in the collision of traditions that came slowly into place in the American South, forming into new traditions of its own.
Read more →It’s ON: HORIZON RECORDS presents the 2019 RECORD FAIR on SATURDAY, SEPT. 21st from 10am-4pm at the Sears Recreation Center
Read more →On “‘Neon Brown’, Velvet Negroni is a griot relaying the life and times of his own island – it’s a singular place, with the squeak and thrum of guitar strings looped over drum machine beats accented by steely marimbas, all creating a pocket for
Read more →In WB Yeats’ most famous line, “things fall apart, the center cannot hold.” Things were pretty bad when he wrote that in 1919, the first world war segueing smoothly into the Irish war of independence, but Sleater-Kinney twist the line into something even worse.
Read more →A new RACONTEURS studio record, Help Us Stranger, is in-stock now at Horizon Records on CD and vinyl LP. It’s this revered rock collective’s third studio effort and first in over a decade. Expect trademark melodies, crunchy rock grooves and ferocious riff-age.
Read more →Bandana, the new joint release by Freddie Gibbs and Madib, is weirder, more freewheeling, more Madlib-y than its predecessor. Gibbs remains unphased; he fields each beat like Omar Vizquel and splits it down the middle with raw charisma, torrential flows, and economic, impactful writing.
Read more →Thom Yorke describes his excellent new solo album Anima as “dystopian,” which isn’t exactly the hugest surprise in the world. With or without Radiohead, he’s spent his whole career mapping out the dystopia we’re living in—he does futuristic apocalypse the way John Fogerty does choogle.
Read more →Long live David Berman. After shutting it all down in a 2009 message board post, the mythic musician’s project Silver Jews took on an indie cult status so strong he almost resented taking a full decade off from making music. But now he’s returned with a new name and the same dark outlook.
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