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.
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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.
Mute’s Throbbing Gristle Reissue Campaign Enters the Reformation Years
In the latest component of a comprehensive reissue series, three limited-edition releases from the 2004-2007 iteration of Throbbing Gristle are back in print. We begin with Live December 2004: A Souvenir of Camber Sands.
Colin Stetson Goes to the Movies with Loud, Garish ‘Color Out of Space’
Adventurous multi-instrumentalist Colin Stetson scores the new horror film from director Richard Stanley, Color Out of Space, and it's a noisy, deeply enjoyable headphone trip.
Crowhurst + Gavin Bryars Demonstrate the Powers of Collaboration With “Dead Swans of Dreams” (premiere + interview)
Veteran composer Gavin Bryars and "noise guy" Crowhurst present a new LP recorded in a 17th century hotel and brimming with musical imagination. Says Bryars, "To watch what Jay does was, sometimes, beyond my comprehension and I thought, at times, that Jay may be more intelligent than me. But it didn't last long!"
Groupthink and Other Painful Reflections on Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth
TOPY and Genesis P-Orridge's knowing adoption of cult iconography and organizing principles quickly slid from satiric emulation to full embrace -- and we all went along with it.
Blanck Mass’ ‘Animated Violence Mild’ Critiques Excess with Excess
Blanck Mass' Animated Violence Mild drops unrelenting electro-industrial melodies, practicing excess to explore personal grief and the global devastation of consumerism.