electronic rock

Electronic Rockers Fat Dog Go ‘WOOF’

Electronic Rockers Fat Dog Go ‘WOOF’

Fat Dog’s combination of live instruments and rock influences with a more modern dance sound seems like a winner for finding an audience in 2024.

‘Belaya Polosa’ Expands Molchat Doma’s Industrial Palette

‘Belaya Polosa’ Expands Molchat Doma’s Industrial Palette

Belaya Polosa is full of Molchat Doma’s most complex and overtly human music, organically integrated into their melancholy post-punk atmosphere.

STS9 Dazzle the Senses on ‘Chromalight’

STS9 Dazzle the Senses on ‘Chromalight’

Chromalight keeps a long winning streak going as STS9 continue pushing boundaries with their genre-blending sonic alchemy and collective improvisations.

Kasabian Deliver Infectious Grooves on ‘Happenings’

Kasabian Deliver Infectious Grooves on ‘Happenings’

Conceived in a spirit of celebration, Kasabian’s eighth LP is a concise, stadium-friendly set of danceable, infectiousness pop-rock for life’s brighter moments.

Kathleen Hanna, Riot Grrrl, and Punk

Kathleen Hanna, Riot Grrrl, and Punk

Riot Grrrl’s activism and grass-roots activity showed the movement was more concerned with breaking the rules and conventions than breaking through in punk.

Post-Punk’s A Certain Ratio Continue Their Revival

Post-Punk’s A Certain Ratio Continue Their Revival

A Certain Ratio find inspiration in their past work and the music that initially inspired them to create art that exists quite nicely in 2024. 

A Reflective Hauntology: On the 2024 Reissue of Manic Street Preachers’ ‘Lifeblood’

A Reflective Hauntology: On the 2024 Reissue of Manic Street Preachers’ ‘Lifeblood’

Manic Street Preachers’ oeuvre indicates that one can only keep preaching manically if one lets oneself be haunted by the past to show the cracks in capitalist realism.

Ascending Mount Kimbie on ‘The Sunset Violent’

Ascending Mount Kimbie on ‘The Sunset Violent’

Mount Kimbie stir their influences into The Sunset Violent so well that it’s distinctly a record of theirs and an enjoyable one at that. 

Desperate Times Call for Poetic Protest From Cyril Cyril

Desperate Times Call for Poetic Protest From Cyril Cyril

Cyril Cyril’s Le Futur Ça Marche Pas is for agitators, a genre-be-damned assemblage of poetry and vivid effects in the form of well-produced electronic rock.

The Way Out Is Through: Nine Inch Nails’ ‘Hesitation Marks’ at 10

The Way Out Is Through: Nine Inch Nails’ ‘Hesitation Marks’ at 10

Nine Inch Nails’ Hesitation Marks creates an objective point for looking back with wiser eyes, showing that the way to a better life is to push through the past.

New Order’s ‘Substance 1987’ Is Even More Essential on Re-issue

New Order’s ‘Substance 1987’ Is Even More Essential on Re-issue

This is the complete story of how New Order assimilated US underground dance sounds and determined the direction of indie music for many years to come.

‘The Harmony Codex’: Steven Wilson’s ‘Cinema for the Ears’

‘The Harmony Codex’: Steven Wilson’s ‘Cinema for the Ears’

“If there was an agenda, it was to not have an agenda at all,” Steven Wilson says of his seventh solo LP, The Harmony Codex, in this extended interview.