Articles by Daniel Sylvester

Lee Ranaldo / Jim Jarmusch / Marc Urselli / Balázs Pándi

Lee Ranaldo / Jim Jarmusch / Marc Urselli / Balázs Pándi

PUBLISHED May 21, 2019

John Zorn's longtime engineer, Marc Urselli, had the idea to bring together three musicians who have never worked together for a single day...

LAL Embrace Community on New Album 'Dark Beings'

PUBLISHED May 15, 2019

On their latest LP, Dark Beings, out May 17 on Coax Records, LAL — the duo of Rosina Kazi and Nicholas "Murr" Murray — open their arms to t...

Ellen Allien

Alientronic

PUBLISHED May 15, 2019

After a trio of albums that found Ellen Allien exploring the perimeters of instrumental techno, the Berlin musician returned to her roots f...

LAL

Dark Beings

PUBLISHED May 15, 2019

For a group who typically wait between four and six years to release an album, Dark Beings, LAL's followup to their 2016 LP Find Safety, al...

Tim Hecker

Anoyo

PUBLISHED May 8, 2019

Last year, Tim Hecker released the most adventurous album of his career simply by sticking to a formula. His followup, Anoyo, contains six...

The Mountain Goats / Shana Cleveland

The Bronson Centre, Ottawa ON, May 5

PUBLISHED May 5, 2019

After 28 years and after almost as many LPs, EPs and cassettes, John Darnielle and his Mountain Goats finally made their live debut in the...

Visible Cloaks, Yoshio Ojima & Satsuki Shibano

FRKWYS Vol. 15: serenitatem

PUBLISHED Apr 30, 2019

In addition to releasing LPs by some terrific acts, RVNG Intl. are known for their serialized albums series, including Beats in Space and R...

Minimal Violence Tear Up the Techno Rulebook on New Album 'InDreams'

PUBLISHED Apr 24, 2019

"I don't think techno purists would even bother listening to our music," laughs Ashlee Luk about InDreams, the debut album from Minimal Vio...