Grayson Haver Currin
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An arthritis diagnosis means the latest album by the Bay Area band The Dodos is likely its last. It is a striking reminder of the oft-overlooked physical strains of music careers. -
This Heat lasted for less than seven years, but helped shape the future of music, from noise rock to experimental electronica. Today, its groundbreaking catalog is finally available to stream.
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In March, The Mountain Goats' leader realized the coronavirus would strip his bandmates of income for months. To help, he reached for the machine that jump-started his career.
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No, songs addressing climate change aren't new. But the new music that does seems animated less by a sunny streak of mainstream activism, and more by a certain feeling we all seem to be sharing.
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The Austrian electronic-music pioneer uses his laptop to splice, sample and otherwise subvert the sound of his guitar and field recordings, in the process forming crackling electric symphonies.
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Ross Shapiro built hooks that betrayed both sardonic armor and a soft heart. Double Coda collects two decades worth of Glands demos and recordings.
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Roy Montgomery's ambient guitar symphonies foreground the voices of Circuit Des Yeux's Haley Fohr, Julianna Barwick, Grouper's Liz Harris and others.
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What best differentiates Salsburg from his field is the incandescence of his playing, or the feeling that he writes and plays guitar largely because he loves the work as much as he does the results.
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Punchlines or saviors, champions or charlatans, leather-gloved posers or earnest bleeding hearts: Deafheaven has become one of its generation's most divisive bands.
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For one writer, the Dave Matthews Band was a gateway to progressive politics in music. On its first album in six years, the group seems like it's sheltering in place.
