Dreamy Post-Punks Flesh World Blast Off To 'Destination Moon'
Featuring members of Brilliant Colors and Limp Wrist, Flesh World's new album, Into The Shroud, both sharpens and expands the band's twilight-skating post-punk.
Music Reviews
World Cafe Nashville: Devon Gilfillian, 'Here And Now'
Watch the video for the emerging Nashville R&B musician's Al Green-inspired groove tune about "slowing life down and living in the moment."
Songs We Love: Alex Cameron, 'Candy May'
With a video set on the Las Vegas strip, Cameron sings about a wound deeper than the layers of synth carved into the first single from Forced Witness. Angel Olsen sings backing vocals.
Songs We Love: Lunice, 'Distrust (Feat. Denzel Curry, JK The Reaper & Nell)'
The boundary-pushing hip-hop producer's debut album is inspired by, and designed for, the stage. Denzel Curry guests on the polyrhythmic cut.
Hear Couch Slut's Mutant Noise-Rocker 'Company Picnic With Dust Off'
Noise-rock thrives on ugly. It is the parasitic, shape-shifting monster of music, and Couch Slut is here to explosively mutate into a creature from The Thing.
Big Hush's 'Soft Eyes' Jangles Shoegaze In A Hall Of Mirrors
Featuring members of Pygmy Lush and Flasher, Big Hush's first two cassettes are getting pressed to vinyl as Spirit/Wholes, with a new song included that feels like a major step-up.
There's Plenty Of Variety On Sexmob's Scrappy 'Cultural Capital'
Since the 1990s, New York trumpet player Steven Bernstein has been the ringleader of this occasional quartet. This recent album was recorded at a home studio and its rough-hewn quality is just right.
Songs We Love: Fletcher Tucker, 'I Became Smoke'
Tucker sinks into the redwoods and roots out something ancient and always, and this is Cold Spring's brooding, but gradually ecstatic confirmation ritual.
Chuck Berry's Final Recordings Are Fresh And Forward-Looking
Berry, who died in March at the age of 90, left behind an album of new material, his first such collection since 1979. Rejecting nostalgia, Berry's last project is interesting and energetic.
Jessica Hernandez & The Deltas: Motor City Grit In Two Languages
Detroit, Havana and Mexico City come together in the group's bilingual double album, Telephone/Teléfono. The twin songs "Hummingbird" and "Colibrí" illustrate the power of lyrics in translation.