Articles by Daniel Sylvester

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  BADBADNOTGOOD Reconnect with Their Jazz Roots on 'Talk Memory'

  PUBLISHED Oct 4, 2021

  Since the release of their debut LP in 2011, BADBADNOTGOOD has always been associated with modern hip-hop culture, releasing Gang Starr cov...

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  Remembering September 24, 1991, the Day Underground Music Hit the Mainstream

  PUBLISHED Sep 20, 2021

  "Teenage angst has paid off well, now I'm bored and old." These lyrics that open Nirvana's 1993 swansong, In Utero, may have sounded, to th...

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  Moor Mother's 'Black Encyclopedia of the Air' Is a Perfect Storm of Mood and Music

  PUBLISHED Sep 14, 2021

  In late 2020, Camae Ayewa (a.k.a. Moor Mother) released BRASS with the supremely underappreciated rapper Billy Woods, initiating a move fro...

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  Low Remain at the Top of Their Creative Peak on 'HEY WHAT'

  PUBLISHED Sep 9, 2021

  Double Negative, Low's hugely celebrated 2018 LP, saw the Duluth, MN-based band moving even further away from their trademark minimal slowc...

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  Martha Wainwright Strips Down Her Usual Theatricality on 'Love Will Be Reborn'

  PUBLISHED Aug 19, 2021

  Martha Wainwright has never been shy about the fact that she comes from one of Canada's most famous musical lineages. She has recorded song...

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  Lingua Ignota's 'Sinner Get Ready' Is More Incantation Than Collection of Songs

  PUBLISHED Aug 5, 2021

  There's absolutely nothing reductive in comparing the music of Kristin Hayter (a.k.a. Lingua Ignota) to other artists. In fact, the artist...

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  Descendents Display 40 Years of Punk Dominance on '9th & Walnut'

  PUBLISHED Jul 20, 2021

  It's a shame that Descendents put off finishing 9th & Walnut for so long, as an album this focused and snotty would have surely launched a...

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  Half Waif's 'Mythopoetics' Is Far More Direct Than Its Name Suggests

  PUBLISHED Jul 5, 2021

  What is it about Nandi Rose (a.k.a. Half Waif) that causes people to describe her art in such a lavish manner? Reviews for last year's swee...