Music Is Invisible is both the last album by and an homage to Jon Hassell, the American trumpet player and composer, which will be most appreciated by boundary-pushing jazz fusion enthusiasts and fans...

Christian Best and Jen Kirby of Crying Laughing talk through the making of ‘Talking,’ from Moondog’s melodic percussion to the Baltimore scene that delivered the rest of the band.

Album Review: Ka Baird & Chris Ryan Williams’ Enthalpy

Though Stone Garden doesn’t often differentiate its sound from more popular ‘60s contemporaries, psych rock fans will likely enjoy a few tracks from the band’s latest reissue.

After a daring and impressive ninth album, Miley Cyrus rebrands by going back to basics with a boring, cliched release that’s often unpleasant to listen to.

Experimental artist Oren Ambarchi’s Cooked may be an acquired taste, but inexperienced listeners will still enjoy it if they are willing to give the album the multiple listens it requires.

Prescient, Thoughtful Themes Hide in a Mediocre King Text

Steve Shelley, Gustavo Riviera, and Paulo Kishimoto discuss 'Catacroma,' the overlooked Brazilian rock and roller Erasmo Carlos, and the weekly radio playlist that keeps three musicians in two hemisph...

John Carpenter’s Cathedral is fantastic listening, mixing what listeners likely love about the horror director’s scores with new sounds. When blending the soundtrack with the graphic novel, it’s a les...

Wang Chung’s To Live and Die in L.A. vinyl reissue tries its best to fix original release problems while adding some extras, but it’s hard to justify purchasing the Deluxe Edition.

Some Recent Record Pickups

4 Books, 4 Takes, More Than 4 Sentences Long.

Hannah Peel and Beibei Wang talk Best Fit through the key themes and inspirations behind The Endless Dance.

Play Time’s Magic Object is an intriguing debut best appreciated by adventurous connoisseurs of contemporary jazz.

Revisiting Katy Perry's 143 As Her Next Album Cycle Begins

Paul Kenyon's The Baroness Book 2: Diamonds Are For Dying

A heated rivalry, a fierce competition and a series of twists, turns and scandals make this look at a vintage video game competition a classic among sports documentaries.

Long before YouTube built its pipeline and Spotify buried its royalties, two films were already asking whether you were a victim of the machine or complicit in it. Warning: contains spoilers!

Recorded in an off-grid Spanish farmhouse during a brutal La Niña winter, 'The Exit Diaries' is the sound of a musician who scrapped an entire album's worth of dark orchestral music, listened obsessively to Alice Coltrane, and arrived somewhere he hadn't expected.

Recorded in an off-grid Spanish farmhouse during a brutal La Niña winter, 'The Exit Diaries' is the sound of a musician who scrapped an entire album's worth of dark orchestral music, listened obsessively to Alice Coltrane, and arrived somewhere he hadn't expected.

Horse Lords’ latest album pushes boundaries, yet seems specifically crafted for accessibility, even for those discovering the group for the first time.

With a mixture of humor and poignancy, The Boys of Dungeon Lane works as a series of sketches, of half-remembered incidents elaborated on with the help of either unlocked memories or imagination, whic...

Wang's grounding in Beijing opera, Peel's synthesizer instincts, and their shared Taoist faith in following the flow converge in a series of improvised sessions tracing the full arc of the Chinese sol...

Whether it's the greatest parody of rock ‘n’ roll or the dumbest child of the genre, I Get Wet welcomes any listener who wants to “Party Hard”— even almost 25 years later.

'The King of Comedy' imagined Rupert Pupkin as a cautionary figure, but over four decades later, his blend of dogged persistence and indifferent craft has become the standard operating procedure of the content era.

If someone encounters the weird but enjoyable Abacab now, they’ll still be amazed at how enveloping and groundbreaking it is, even over 40 years later — so long as they can dig deep enough to hear the...

Named for the Finnish concept of resilience, 'sisu' documents Kodomo's Chris Child working with vocalists for the first time, chasing analog serendipity, and making a deliberate case for the album as a form still worth defending.

Stay Tuned is the kind of movie you swear you’ve seen before. This is because even if you haven’t seen it, you’ve seen something similar. The Peter Hyams-directed film has the tried-and-true trope of ...

Another curious and quirky collection from Klosterman has its moments, but it overestimates the appeal of its subject matter.

Tony Benna and André Ricciardi have created a humorous and poignant film about what it means to be human by covering a topic that many avoid talking about in modern society.