Monday, January 23 2012
Salli Lunn: A Frame of Reference
A Frame Of Reference features apathetic remixes from the Danish noise collective’s album Heresy and Rite, rounded out by unimpressive previously unreleased tracks.
Friday, October 21 2011
Lollapalooza 1991: The Underground As a Community
Originally conceived of as a farewell tour for Jane's Addiction, Lollapalooza turned into something even grander: Woodstock for Gen X.
Friday, September 30 2011
The Year Alternative Went Massive and Defined a Decade
Above all else, musically 1991 will forever be remembered as the year alterna-rock conquered the masses. PopMatters explores how alternative became the dominant form of rock music in the '90s.
Wednesday, August 3 2011
The 10 Best Alternative Metal Singles of the 1990s
Antichrist superstars, astro-creeps, and broken machines all assemble for this look back at the ten best singles from alternative metal's golden era.
Monday, July 11 2011
Techno’s Labor Force, Rock’s Betrayal, and the Birth of the Fascist Groove Thing
Electronic music has always maintained an ambivalent attitude towards labor, at once rejecting the notion of wage internment and creative inhibition while embracing the beauty of the cyborgian mechanics of the factory and the allure of discipline and dominance.
Friday, November 12 2010
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross: The Social Network Soundtrack
Even if Reznor and Ross produce little that would not have felt at home on their recent collaborations, Fincher's application of their unsettling abilities to his unnerving movie feels like one of the project's multiple strokes of inspired genius.
Thursday, September 2 2010
Planning for Burial: Leaving
Imagine Trent Reznor never had his recent final phase and we were never exposed to that post-Fragile laptop rock. Picture instead that he signed to Southern Lord, mourned New Orleans after Katrina, and wrote a bunch of great doom-drone guitar dirges.
Thursday, October 1 2009
Nine Inch Nails: 26 August 2009 - New York
Trent Reznor has been on the ol' Debbie Downer kick for 20 years, always singing about things dying and ending and breaking, and it's probably time to close up shop.
