Art d'Ecco wanted to do something impulsive. It was 2016, and he was feeling listless a few shows into a tour for an album that wasn't doing...
It's a late July evening in 2018, and there's barely room to stand in Gus' Pub — an unofficial landmark in Halifax's live music scene. From...
When people tell the story of ambient music pioneer Laraaji, they usually start here: one day in 1978, as Laraaji was playing the zither in...
Dance, like politics, concerns itself with assembling and managing bodies, with making them move. It's perhaps no surprise, then, that movem...
Like a hummingbird in flight, Battles make the most complex labour look carefree and weightless. Since the release of their debut album, Mir...
Amongst certain fans of rock'n'roll, the go-to litmus test for assessing a band's quality is the question of how "real" they are. By such a...
It's a tricky thing to release a best-of album in the digital era. When the format was first conceived, each record in a band's catalogue ex...
Even today, nearly 40 years after the band's inception, it remains hard to pin down what, exactly, makes a Flaming Lips record. The pastel c...
On Atlanta Millionaires Club, the new LP from singer/songwriter Faye Webster, nothing is as it seems. Look no further than the cover art, gr...
There's a lot happening on The Seduction of Kansas. By the time the LP — the second from DC punks Priests — comes to a close, vocalist Katie...
In the Atacama Desert in Chile grows a flowering plant known as the llareta. Verdant and cresting, it is a plant that produces a beautiful u...
Take a look at the music video for "Tough Enough" — the lead single from Ex Hex's sophomore LP It's Real — and you'll get a pretty good sens...
It's been a busy year for Hubert Lenoir. The 24-year-old artist shared his startlingly adventurous debut album, Darlène, (a "postmodern-oper...
You'd be forgiven for thinking yourself a trespasser in the world of Art d'Ecco. After all, his is a creative ecosystem that feels so real,...
Jaakko Eino Kalevi comes to us in a tranquil sprawl on the cover art for Out of Touch. All is at peace, as Kalevi blends effortlessly into t...
If Jim James' third solo record, Uniform Distortion, was a bright ball of light, chaotic and reckless, Uniform Clarity is something of an af...
If you're trying to get a sense of D.C. power-pop outfit Bad Moves, look no further than the video accompanying promotional single "One Thin...
Active Bird Community have the kind of band formation story that could have been crafted in a writer's room for a coming-of-age film. Consid...
A band are here to perform. We, the audience, are here to listen. But White Denim won't let us off the hook that easily. On the jittery...
Tirzah is right here, and yet, she isn't — not quite. Leaning toward us, on the cover art for her debut album, little is clearly defined: ha...
