Mark Lanegan began his career as an exponent of brooding melodic alt-rock via his work with criminally underrated Washington rock band Screaming Trees. When after seven studio albums the band spilt Lanegan remarked “We didn’t have a damn thing in common except insanity-so we fought a lot.”

It must be quite something to be able to remain both prolific and vital for a band in the contemporary age, but that is exactly what Nashville duo Hammock, comprised of Marc Byrd and Andrew Thompson, are.

Long before he was roaming Jurassic Park analyzing dinosaurs or vomiting digestive enzymes onto his food in The Fly, Hollywood star Jeff Goldblum began his creative life as a musician playing gigs.

A Winged Victory for the Sullen is the duo of Dustin O’Halloran and Adam Wiltzie who are as well known for their film scores as they are for their intriguing blend of delicate electronics and classical ambient soundscapes.

Stars are celebrating with their latest release, LaGuardia, and for good reason.

England’s finest troubadour Richard Dawson returns here with a sonic kaleidoscope that glimpses the puzzle pieces of the UK in its current state and recounts Dawson’s frustrations, pain, and joy in a consistently novel, affecting, and inventive way.

After plumbing the depths of drone, ambient, and metal genres for 21 years, Sunn O))) are still uncovering new ways to create deep sounds and resonant frequencies.

Picture yourself in the mid-to-late ‘80s tooling around with your best buddies in a white van with little more than the handful of musical instruments you begged and borrowed for. Maybe to up your psychedelic credibility you have a bubble machine and a light-up rainbow spinner ball to splash a little color across the walls of the ramshackle clubs where you’ve managed to land gigs.

Ric Menck and Paul Chastain might not be household names, yet in an ideal world they’d be as famous as Lennon and McCartney or Rogers and Hammerstein. Having met in a Chicago recording studio in the early 1980s, it wasn’t long before the duo formed their first band (Choo Choo Train, check them out!).