Pop Spotlight

With their 2012 breakout Dripping, Pile cemented their status as one the loudest, most quietly influential DIY rock bands with riotous live shows and a discography that brawls with post-hardcore. In recent years, however, the […]

Without wishing to spoil one of the best science fiction movies of the 1970s—you’ve had long enough to watch it, surely—there’s a crushing scene in Douglas Trumbull’s Silent Running that envisions a biome floating through deep […]

Katherine Paul, who performs under the moniker Black Belt Eagle Scout, first learned to drum from her family’s drum group, the Skagit Valley Singers. Years later, her dynamic percussion infuses her third album, the intimate The […]

Seaming To’s musical heritage doesn’t immediately scream rebellion. The London-born singer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist comes from a family of concert pianists, and she followed their path at Manchester’s Royal Northern College of Music, where she […]

In a dance-music scene deep in the throes of Y2K nostalgia, Two Shell have managed to ride the zeitgeist without being too obvious about it. Sure, the styles that the mysteriously masked UK duo pluck from […]

The heroes of doom metal seem to hold little regard for anything besides distortion and the devil. After all, subtlety can be difficult to convey with a Gibson SG, cartilage-cleaving vocals, and a cityscape of […]

The trajectory of HTRK’s music was irrevocably altered by the death of bassist Sean Stewart after the group’s first album. Each subsequent release was a step in the grieving process, as vocalist Jonnine Standish and […]