The Co-Founder of publisher/design studio/brand Actual Source, shares music that inspires his own recordings plus taste, shame and Nirvana.

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McIlwain regresa a sus raíces minimalistas con "Melting Days", su imponente décimo álbum como Lusine.

Goya Gumbani - Shouldn’t Be (feat. Joe Armon Jones)

Nathan Jenkins talks about his new album, Nearly—a record he says is not the one he intended to make.

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The prolific artist and producer (Blur, Arctic Monkeys, Depeche Mode) goes deep..."starts out quite spacey but later peppered with a few classic songs.” + living with artists after they are gone.

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Read Shy Clara Thompson’s review of the album.

The 79-year-old music legend on his shopping habits, the key to aging gracefully, and his vital new album Yours Sincerely.

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Essential new music from Carmen Villain, Shudder to Think, Frances Chang, and more.

The latest from the Japanese icon functions as a showpiece for his many musical eras.

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10 track album

Sylvie presenta 'Rina (feat. Alex Amen)', una canción recuperada del archivo familiar que anticipa 'New Season', el primer álbum de Ben Schwab para Ghostly International, previsto para el 6 de noviembre. El lanzamiento parte de una composición escrita por su padre, John Schwab, integrante de Mad Anthony, y recupera una pieza vinculada a una amistad […]

Haruomi Hosono in Tokyo. ##### The Japanese singer, whose eclectic musical career has influenced artists from David Bowie to Sofia Coppola, returns with his first album in seven years By Spike Carter “I am now 78 years old,” Haruomi Hosono said earlier this year, in a statement announcing his 23rd studio LP, _Yours Sincerely,_ “but from here on, I feel a growing curiosity toward the unknown music that my new self will create, while also embracing the music of my former self—as if I now carry two musical worlds within me.” The title for the album—Hosono’s first release of new music in more than seven years—is his attempt to render the Japanese-language expression _omoiyari_ in English. “I searched, but no word felt quite right. Each came close, yet carried a slightly different nuance.... I turned to a more familiar word often used to close a letter: ‘Sincerely.’” READ ON

The Durutti Column in review, as chosen and explained by Tom Krell (How to Dress Well)

Stories and favorites from the front lines + I was an Electro Malcontent + unseen photos by Will Calcutt

From Underground Resistance boot camp to Minimal Nation, Monobox, and M-Plant, tracing more than three decades of Robert Hood’s relentlessly inventive techno. In Detroit in the late 1980s, Robert Hood was still Rob Noise, a skinny kid with a Public Enemy fixation trying to find his way into electronic music. Much of it came through the radio. Derrick May’s show The Electric Crazy People was broadcasting records unlike anything Hood had heard before, music he wou...

Back in 2021, the LA-based musician Ben Schwab was a member of Drugdealer, and he started releasing his own lush and expansive ’70s-style singer-songwriter records under the name Sylvie. After droppin...

Sylvia — the project of Los Angeles artist Ben Schwab — has announced his first full-length album, New Season, and shared new single "Rina" featuring folk artist Alex Amen.

The first solo record in seven years from Haruomi Hosono – one of the most influential figures in Japanese music – is a stripped-back, sentimental sojourn through the sounds of Brill Building pop,…

Jeff McIlwain's tenth Lusine album, 'Melting Days,' makes the case that rhythm and atmosphere were never opposites to begin with.

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Jeff McIlwain's tenth Lusine album, 'Melting Days,' makes the case that rhythm and atmosphere were never opposites to begin with.

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