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Gardens & Villa are a synthpop band stuck in an existential funk, and we have the Internet to blame. “[We’re] feeling too connected and yet at the end of the day, disconnected from everything/everyone,” frontman…
If you’d walked up to even the most ardent extreme metal fan in 1987 and posed the question “How far do you think this music can go?” chances are you’d have gotten a blank stare…
Cate Le Bon has cut an imperious figure across her three solo albums. Her strong Welsh accent puts her at a curious remove, and she allows the guitars and organs that shape her songs to…
The engimatic Swedish band Ghost (briefly known as Ghost B.C.) are in an odd place in the metal world right now. They’re maybe the only modern metal band to earn accolades from both Darkthrone‘s Fenriz…
Mick Jenkins’ sophomore tape The Water(s) stood apart in a competitive Chicago scene. With a resonant baritone that telegraphed masculine authority, Jenkins jumped from not mentioned at all to one of his city’s most promising…
With this week’s shock release of Black Messiah, soul singer and multi-instrumentalist D’Angelo, the man music critic Robert Christgau once earnestly dubbed “R&B Jesus,” returns with his first album of new material in 14 years.…
Nicki Minaj is fed up. It’s 2010, six weeks before the release of her debut album, Pink Friday. She’s working on the album’s finishing touches, though it’s just gone up for presale on Amazon, and…
Japanese producer Canooooopy draws from the more mundane moments of daily life. “The sound of an air conditioner, the rhythm of a pen falling down, a conversation from other people,” are just some of the…
In October of last year, David Byrne’s Luaka Bop label released Who is William Onyeabor?, a compilation of the obscure Nigerian musician some eight years in the making. A few months on, Sinkane’s Ahmed Gallab led…
Money, you might have noticed, is on the mind of many musicians. As music consumption continues to shift toward digital methods of distribution, from illegal downloads that pay the artist nothing to authorized streams that…