Merzbow Merges Metal and Experimental Music on the Ferocious ‘Venereology’
Japanese icon Merzbow's classic foray into death metal, Venereology, has been remastered for maximum brutality.
Jared Skinner
Pig Destroyer Craft One of the Year’s Stand-out Metal Albums with ‘Head Cage’
Pig Destroyer are strange and brutal on their most contemporary work to date, Head Cage.
Clutch Revisit the Past on ‘Book of Bad Decisions’
Clutch can't escape the past on their newest release Book of Bad Decisions.
Buddy Guy Makes a Strong Case for the Blues on ‘The Blues is Alive and Well’
On his latest album, The Blues Is Alive and Well, blues legend Buddy Guy stares his mortality in the face.
Mary Lattimore Uses Technology to Re-contextualize the Classical Harp on ‘Hundreds of Days’
Proving herself again to be an artist of great skill, Mary Lattimore returns with an ambient masterwork of great emotive power.
On ‘For Gyumri’, Tigran Hamasyan Wraps His Virtuosic Skill in Emotive Sonic Structures
The natural modal passion of folk and the acrobatic intensity of a musical genius are constantly at work in Tigran Hamasyan's music.
London’s Hottest Punk Band Shame Impress on Debut ‘Songs of Praise’
London’s biggest new punk act Shame bursts furiously onto the scene with their official debut, Songs of Praise.
Kadavar: Rough Times
Berlin heavy rockers Kadavar stuck in the morass of heavy rock's conventions.
A New Sound in the South: J Roddy Walston on ‘Destroyers of the Soft Life’
At any moment the band might tear a hole through the speakers with songs bursting at the seams with stadium-sized power.
Echoes of History and Nature: A Conversation with Jökull Júlíusson of Kaleo
JJ Julius Son, lead singer of Kaleo, speaks with PopMatters on his early influences and how he will never fall into the trap of a single genre.
Ripples in the Water: A Conversation With Nick Allbrook of Pond
Nick Allbrook discusses politics, new music from Pond, and the influence of his native country, Australia, on his music.
The Orwells: Terrible Human Beings
The Orwells do what they do best, except a little better, on their new full length.