Armlock Head Toward the Whimsical Sonic Fringes KUČKA – Can You Hear Me Dreaming?LUCKYME In collaborations with marquee artists like Flume and Vince Staples, KUČKA has proven indispensable. Rappers and fellow producers have played with […]
Armlock Head Toward the Whimsical Sonic Fringes
5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: Matthew Sweet Armlock – Seashell Angel Lucky CharmRun for Cover Records Australian duo Simon Lam and Hamish Mitchell have spent years wading around different genre waters. More from Spin: […]
Remi Wolf Explores the Outer Limits of Her Signature Sound on ‘Big Ideas’
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Zach Person Is Bringing Volume to the Masses
Augusta Palmer Made Us a ‘Moving-Image Mixtape’ of Memphis Country Blues Let’s Get Loud is the title of guitarist Zach Person’s second album, but it’s also a mission statement that informs both the sound of […]
Black Hole Sun Ra: Kronos Quartet and Friends Transform a Jazz Legend
Bob Dylan Readies 27-CD Boxed Set Of 1974 Tour With The Band Kronos Quartet – Outer Spaceways Incorporated: Kronos Quartet & Friends Meet Sun RaRed Hot Organization For the previous entry in the Red Hot […]
Fire-Toolz Brings Death-Maximalism on ‘Breeze’
Augusta Palmer Made Us a ‘Moving-Image Mixtape’ of Memphis Country Blues Fire-Toolz – Breeze Self-Released Fire-Toolz opens Breeze in supplication. “Please,” she sings, “I’m not ready to die!” With the record that follows, the experimental artist […]
Dirty Three Choose Ambience Over Fury on ‘Love Changes Everything’
Zach Bryan’s New Album Features Bruce Springsteen, John Mayer Dirty Three – Love Changes EverythingDrag City It is impossible for the members of Dirty Three to remain untouched by their various pursuits of the past […]
Redd Kross, in Year 45, Lay Claim to the Power-Pop Throne
Marty Willson-Piper’s 65,000 Vinyl Treasure Cave Used To Be a Funeral Home Redd Kross – Redd KrossIn the Red What Redd Kross have brought to the punk rock zeitgeist is immeasurable and uncompromising. Literal brothers […]
SML: The Sound of Citation
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MONO’s Post-Rock Remains Dynamic—Yet Overly Familiar
The Folk Implosion’s ‘Walk Thru Me’: Apparently It’s 1998 Somewhere MONO – OathTemporary Residence Ltd. “Consistent” is an apt descriptor for the Japanese post-rock outfit MONO, from the frequency of their output to the band’s […]
The Folk Implosion’s ‘Walk Thru Me’: Apparently It’s 1998 Somewhere
Tom Morello Kicks Out the Jams The Folk Implosion – Walk Thru MeJoyful Noise Even by the standards of the post-Nirvana alt-rock boom, the Folk Implosion’s career arc was incredibly weird. Even stranger, Walk Thru […]
SPIN SETS Presents: Malóne
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