Today marks an unfathomable loss: Dolly Parton has died. Brilliant artist, devoted philanthropist, remarkable human; to list her achievements here feels redundant, as the cult of Dolly has long since ...

THE FUTURE IS OURS TO MAKE’s quarterly review of significant recordings.

It's a nice idea that "This Land Is Your Land" should be our national anthem, a wonderful song full of generous and idealistic sentiment that's actually easy to sing. (That the Star-Spangled Banner sh...

Montreal's Amarior invokes vengeance and forgiveness in radiant noise

Erin MacLeod explains the Quebec context for everyone's new favourite band

Tia Julien chats with the Palestinian-Canadian artist about her new EP Light Codes, neuroacoustics, sound therapy, and creating music for healing.

DeForrest Brown, Jr. revisits R. Murray Schafer's theory of "schizophonia" to examine how streaming platforms like Spotify reshape listening and perception.

Slipstreams can be avenues of momentum through which artists, scenes, and collective initiatives can transcend their regular working conditions

Kings Road employs punk artists and produces merch for some of the world’s biggest punk bands. The morning of the union’s first day of bargaining, owners Sony Music revealed plans to shutter the workp...

On the cover of the Village Voice, Bob Dylan ran over Kyp Malone in a Rascal scooter. This was February 2007, and 64-year-old Dylan’s 32nd studio album Modern Times had just barely snuck past TV On Th...

Charles revisits one of his favorite albums, on the occasion of its first-ever live performance

I needed a pen. I’ve also been deep in a tiger pit of depression lately, and it seemed like a good idea to pit these two things against each other. Draw a cure from the blood of necessity.

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With roots in Armenia, Syria and Saudi Arabia, the singer-songwriter now lives in the US. But despite her Carole King-style sound, her homelands are never far from her mind

A new voice enters the conversation. Enthralling, mysterious, and beautifully disorienting, The Giant is Awkward finds Bark Culture widening its range and sharpening its identity as pianist Sam Yulsma...

The fearless free-funk and jazz artist, a student of Ornette Coleman's Harmolodics concept, followed his unorthodox path to a singular five-decade career.

Read Zach Schonfeld’s review of the album.

Read Zach Schonfeld’s review of the album.

...According to some guy in Chicago. Plus, 40 more recommended LPs, including every new full-length I wrote about in No Expectations this year.

The band discusses signing to an indie label again, making their hard-hitting new album, the impact of Benjamin Gibbard's divorce, indulging fan nostalgia, and more.

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Welcome to the first-ever monthly roundup of Good Experimental Music! I hope you'll like this one and stick around for more. This time around we have some head-clearing solo sax, improvisations on a p...

Howdy folks! This will be the final issue. I’ve decided to move my attention and efforts to some new projects and, at 2 years and 25 issues, it seems like a...

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Who's a real cowboy? The question has been central to American culture (popular and otherwise) for almost as long as it's existed, filtered through novels and songs and (of course) endless Westerns, w...

This past weekend Julie and I saw Bill Callahan in Kingston, NY.