In this age of homogeny, phrases like “experimental” and “avant garde” are thrown around liberally, usually to add conceptual weight to music that is often anything but. Holly Herndon is an artist that truly fits the bill, pushing boundaries both sonically and conceptually whilst retaining a strong grasp on accessibility.

Cave In’s latest, and presumably last, full-length is one steeped in tragedy, though its outcome isn’t all gloom. In March of 2018, founding bassist and songwriter Caleb Scofield died in a car accident, just as the Boston metalcore band had begun recording their first record in seven years.

According to the personal letter that Sam France—one half of bittersweet duo, Foxygen—attached to new album, Seeing Other People, making a suggestion to see other people to someone you’re in a relationship with is another way of saying, “Let’s end shit.”

I have and always will refer to Broken Social Scene as The Ensemble That Rocks. The Canadian outfit was truly a godsend in the ‘00s rock epoch, when trite rock and/or roll machismo started rearing its ugly head again.

It wouldn’t be a UK festival without rumors of a special guest headliner appearing at some point over the weekend.

Even New York’s most ardent supporters must admit that if the city still holds the crown as hip-hop’s center, it does so off history alone.

As the frontman of The Hold Steady—the band he formed in 2003—Craig Finn has established himself as one of contemporary music’s best and most interesting songwriters.

For all of its acclaim as one of the greatest action films of all time, we can’t understate how funny Police Story is.

The Italo Calvino short story “Adventure of a Bather” concerns itself with the sudden disappearance of a bather’s swimsuit and her subsequent alienation from the rest of the beach goers and fishers around her.