Neil Young sounds at peace on a quiet, reflective set with the Chrome Hearrts

Classic tunes from Isaac Hayes, Miles Davis, Ennio Morricone, Jonny Greenwood, and more soundtrack the coolest films of the 20th century.

From riding the rails during the Great Depression to building his own instruments, there has been no other musician like Harry Partch, and there likely never will be.

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Dave Mason – Only You Know And I Know (Live) – Long Lost Friend Traffic – Feelin Alright Relatively Clean Rivers – Easy Ride – Relatively Clean Rivers Claire Hamill Ba…

One of the most creatively exciting periods in moviemaking saw the likes of Maya Deren, Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí bringing cinematic surreality to the masses. A new film, Gerald Fox’s ‘Kinaesthesi...

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Our monthly round-up of folk, bluegrass, roots rock, Americana, and all things country-ish.

Christian Kriegeskotte sits down with Olivia Block, who chats about her 2026 Alvin Lucier Award for Music and music as a continuum.

With its meditative pace and sincere interest in moral questions, Clint Bentley’s film of a rudderless man cutting down trees in Idaho’s verdant vistas has the air of a Hollywood classic from another era

Our rediscovered love of the record format reveals a need for ceremony and connection to tangible objects

Jesca Hoop shares Caravan, a raw new single of devotion and disillusionment, from her forthcoming seventh album Long Wave Home, out 1st May.

Forty years on from the magnificent sequence that began with Swordfishtrombones, collaborators and fans including Jim Jarmusch and Thom Yorke discuss Waits’s journey from bar-room balladeer to conductor of a junkyard orchestra

Alan Sparhawk Here's part two of our monthly run-down of short reviews. Buck Meek — The Mirror (4AD) Buck Meek - Gasoline The Mirror is Big Thief guitarist Buck Meek’s second album for 4AD, and his...

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From a youthful hook-up with the Rolling Stones to crafting his bleakly brilliant final album, three extracts from an exhaustive new biography offer the most nuanced portrait to date of the 70s singer-songwriter

…According to some guy in Chicago. Plus, every album and more I recommended in No Expectations this year.

Ambient country has been described as the meeting point between Pink Floyd’s psychedelia and the darker moments of The Velvet Underground.

Samana unveils the video for “Lakeside Song,” an analogue Super 8mm meditation—an invocation of a place where the outer world gently dissolves, and the inner one rises to meet it.

In the Hearing Music I plan to show connections between punk, no wave, minimalism, free jazz, exotica, drone, experimental, psychedelic, noise, new age, synth bliss, and other lost threads to build my...