Pure Bathing Culture first full-length record, Moon Tides (Partisan Records), reflect a number of themes of the indie underground like a crystal ball, that are easily missed or ignored with cursory reductive listening. There’s more going on here...
Grizzly Bear Shields Warp Records With the release of Shields this past week, the transformation of Grizzly Bear from an indie band into a full-fledged pop band is in its final stages. If you’ve been watching their trajectory over the past 6-7...
During the 1960s, a flood of immigration brought thousands of Turks from their homeland to Germany, with promises of well-paying career opportunities. Without cultural context, one might find such a German and Turkish association to be bizarre...
"Time (and its physical/visual presence) is an ever-present concept in my work, as well as a large factor in crystal growth."
Bleep is a column focusing on varying degrees of electronic music news, videos and MP3s. This week we feature a new announcement from Com Truise as well as tracks by Neud Photo and Clark. Read previous Bleep columns here. Com Truise If...
I’m not sure what it is about our nature that makes us constantly want to mutilate faces — and maybe that is just the simplest explanation for all of our recent zombie activity — but sometimes there’s just nothing more...
“Pop music shouldn’t always get a bad rap,” says Top Pops!, a recurring selection of pop music highlights across a selection of styles. Two of indie rock’s big hitters, Beach House and Dirty Projectors, continue to explore...
As most outlets and writers, myself included, rushed a bit prematurely to start and finish their 2011 year end features, there were albums which passed without enough recognition. Atop the list of great December releases is Molly Nilsson’s...