After a few passes through Woods' eleventh album it's clear that Strange to Explain is an album that lives in its details. Three years since...

Twenty-five years and 15 albums into a career that is especially remarkable in how infrequently it is remarked upon, Damien Jurado provides...

Three decades into a musical career, most artists tend to either reinvent their process or cannibalize their past. Michigan space rock duo W...

Birthed in the belly of a steel water tank in the Colorado desert, Montreal-based saxophonist Ida Toninato's new album lives up to its title...

Glasgow outfit Spinning Coin's fortunes were given an early boost with positive attention from Geographic label boss and indie luminary Step...

Henning Schmiedt's approach to Bach's Goldberg Aria is marked by its choices and variations, many of which have as much to do with the recor...

After releasing two albums under her Saltland moniker, Rebecca Foon, who has also long been a contributing member of Thee Silver Mt. Zion an...

Nick Dawson and Stuart Bowditch run Courier Records in Suffolk, UK. They are also Furrows, and A Thin Veneer is the collected result of thei...

Following his work on Ari Aster's 2018 film Hereditary, Colin Stetson tackles the much looser and loopy task of scoring Color Out of Space,...

Now into his third decade as a composer and experimentalist in the constellation of interconnected musical forms dubbed everything from post...

Revisiting the original Lost Wisdom a little more than a decade after its release, you find an album full of questions about ghosts, empty h...

Mark Nelson's 25 years of making music, from the austere post-rock of his Virginia trio Labradford to the most recent ambient keyboard exper...

When Chromatics showed up as live performers in a roadhouse scene of 2017's Twin Peaks: The Return, it felt like they had stepped into a spo...

Collaboration and hybridization are two forces that yield interesting musical mutations, and this is especially true when the splicing invol...

So how does a punk band last 40 years and not lapse into self-parody? Here is a partial list.   By showing punk is not anti-intellectual....

French duo Xavier Garcia and Lionel Marchetti were given a special setup on a small, raised stage surrounded by the audience on all sides. T...

It could be festival fatigue messing with the senses, but drummer Tyshan Soren repeatedly pulled off the same subtle trick: biding time thro...

As an undeniable force of nature, one of Keiji Haino's innate abilities is not necessarily to play with others. He thrives in situations whe...

As a musician, organizer, label boss and all-around local hero for decades, Joane Hétu has a deep, deep Rolodex. The contact list came in ha...

Pianist Vijay Iyer is at that point in his career, just past 40 years old, where his status as a promising new voice is near fully mutated i...