Bits

Published on October 31st, 2018

UNWED SAILOR Avant garde, experimental, instrumental music may not be the first thing the average person would pick out to jam to, but Unwed Sailor »

Published on October 31st, 2018

In 1997, the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn and Titan took off from a launchpad on Florida’s Space Coast. Notable as a joint effort between NASA »

Published on October 30th, 2018

The identical twin brothers who founded Blac Rabbit are at first glance outliers. Born and raised in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, Amiri and Rahiem Taylor grew »

Published on October 30th, 2018

There is poetic justice in the marketplace writing obituaries for media such as print: left for dead by the masses and corporate interests, they become »

Published on October 29th, 2018

If any song just sounds like the 1980s, the decade when rock and disco — guitars and synths, drum kits and drum machines — figured »

Published on October 29th, 2018

First things first: Pond is not Tame Impala; not really. Some Pond members have played in Tame Impala before, and some currently do. But while a »

Published on October 29th, 2018

If you think of raw DIY creativity in hip hop, you think of Atmosphere. With their blunt lyricism and bracing homemade beats, twin pillars Slug »

Published on October 13th, 2018

Twenty-one is a milestone: A gateway in years lived to legalized drinking and gambling; and the first full turn around the sun after completing that »

Published on October 13th, 2018

While people might roll their eyes at the mention of a cover band, they might want to give Miami’s Ordinary Boys: The Smiths & Morrissey »

Published on October 13th, 2018

  Ween is the best band. It doesn’t matter if you aren’t familiar with their catalog; they are your new favorite band now, full stop. »

Published on October 13th, 2018

It’s odd to think that the Breeders, whose power resides in their unmatched sibling chemistry, began life at the dawn of the 1990s without one »

Published on October 2nd, 2018

Omaha, Nebraska is, for most people, less a destination than a middle-America reference point. But it’s also the longtime home of Saddle Creek, the Great »