The Monochrome Festival’s Brilliant Musical Futurism
The Monochrome Festival was a perfect mini-fest weekend and so many reasons for hope in these strange times: The youth ARE alright.
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A Kind of Beauty: An Interview With Ben Frost
Ben Frost, Australia’s premiere avant-garde composer, unleashes his first solo album in seven years by returning to the pitch-black metal he loves so dearly.
Throbbing Gristle: Nothing Short of Total War
Throbbing Gristle’s dedication to nothing short of total war was not so much a declaration of war but a warning that endless war could become a state of being.
Yuko Araki’s ‘IV’: Torn Between Voice and Noise
Experimentalist Yuko Araki highlights her vision’s first new element: the human voice, which was either absent or lost beneath the layers of havoc in the past.
Gnaw Their Tongues – ‘The Cessation of Suffering’ (album premiere)
Gnaw Their Tongues: “We live in difficult times. This album needed to sound this way. I programmed and mangled sounds until they sounded harsh enough.”
Insect Ark’s Dark Ambient Turn – Future Fossils EP Review
Insect Ark is Dana Schechter’s solo project again and the focus is no longer on heavy music but on dark ambient atmospherics for the new EP, Future Fossils.
Why Yoko Ono’s Music Matters
Yoko Ono’s story is of a passionate and powerful songwriter and artist. A creative and sensitive musician who worked doggedly to bring her avant-garde aesthetic to pop music and to use her voice to advocate for the rights of women, racial minorities, and LGBTQ people.
Evicshen Is the Mad Scientist of Industrial Noise with ‘Hair Birth’
Experimental sound artist Evicshen brings uniquely crafted dissonance to her striking debut LP Hair Birth.
Wetware Ratchet Up the Intensity to a Nightmarish Degree on ‘Flail’
Brooklyn's Wetware have created a wild collection of industrial noise on Flail that sounds more like an intense fever dream than anything else.
Okkyung Lee Goes From Classical to Noise on the Stellar ‘Yeo-Neun’
Cellist Okkyung Lee walks a fine line between classical and noise on the splendid, minimalist excursion Yeo-Neun.
Throbbing Gristle Sounded Only Half Alive on ‘Part Two: The Endless Not’
The promised new album emerged in 2007 mashing together an EP's worth of new Throbbing Gristle, four outtakes from the band members' solo work, and two songs hanging around since their reformation in 2004.
Throbbing Gristle’s 2004 EP ‘TG Now’ Offered Hope for the Future
The demon stepchild shadowing punk's footsteps in the 1970s, Throbbing Gristle, returned in this new century making the case that they had something new to say with TG Now.