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Pinterest Board of the Week: Instrumental Indie

By Lorenn Kassel

Experimental instrumentals

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Music Feature

Critical 5: Female Electronic Pioneers

By Dave Shim

The mothers of electronic music.

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Music Critical Questions

Critical Questions: Destroyer

By Stewart Mason

Dan Bejar opens up.

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Music Feature

Critical 5: Female Electronic Musicians

By Dave Shim

Electronic music from a woman's perspective

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Music News

Sigur Rós plot first tour in four years

By Chris Payne

Is your Hopelandic getting rusty?

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Music News

Video of the Day: Tune-Yards

By Chris Payne

We wish Merrill Garbus was our daycare instructor

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Music Review

Mr. Impossible

Black Dice

Somewhere in the universe, these songs are hits.

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Music News

Dirty Projectors announce tour dates

By Stewart Mason

Hitting North America this summer

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Music Review

I Love You, It’s Cool

Bear in Heaven

Psychedelic southerners keep the weirdness coming.

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Music News

Dirty Projectors preview new album

By Stewart Mason

Swing Lo Magellan due July 10

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Music Review

Always

Xiu Xiu

Always different, yet always the same.

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Culture Review

The Execution of Maximilian: Border Paintings

G.T. Pellizzi

A Mexican-American art clash.

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Music Review

The Total Groovy

Various Artists

Pete Shelley's experimental-hippie side comes through.

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Music Review

Paralytic Stalks

Of Montreal

Pretentious, sprawling album wastes Kevin Barnes' gifts.

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Music Review

Clay Class

Prinzhorn Dance School

Taking pop minimalism to freaky new heights.

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Music News

Remix newbie Todd Rundgren reworks Lindstrom's new single

By Stewart Mason

First-time remixer has the goods.

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Music News

Of Montreal streams new album, official release next week

By Anna Graizbord

A darker, more personal turn for Of Montreal.

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Music News

Jacaszek’s dreamy new video

By Anna Graizbord

Urge to re-tile surfaces will rise after viewing.

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Culture Review

Images of War (at a Distance)

Harun Farocki

X-rays of the culture.

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Music Profile

Hatfield and the North

By Stewart Mason

Relentlessly whimsical prog-rockers.

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Music Review

Original Colors

High Places

Electro-ephemerists move, haltingly, toward the dance floor.

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Music Review

Biophilia

Bjork

Dazzlingly produced, wildly ambitious, but unexpectedly flat.

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Music Review

Black Up

Shabazz Palaces

Old school alt-rapper gets Afro-futuristic.

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Music Review

All Things Will Unwind

My Brightest Diamond

Art-pop chanteuse's most direct work yet.

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Music Review

Conatus

Zola Jesus

Goth kids of the 2010s, meet your leader.

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Music Review

Comecrudos

Pontiak

Virginia trio go on a desert-psych road trip.

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Music Review

W

Planningtorock

Initially forbidding, but with hidden avant-pop charms.

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Music List

Fall 2011 Album Preview

By Stewart Mason

After the traditional late-summer lull, the fall new release schedule… >>

Music Review

We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves

John Maus

Profoundly weird and unexpectedly beautiful synth pop.

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Music Review

House of Balloons

The Weeknd

A skillfully experimental underground debut.

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Music Review

David Comes To Life

Fucked Up

A deeply-flawed potential masterpiece.

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Music Review

Life Fantastic

Man Man

Dark, schizophrenic sideshow jams.

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Music Review

Eye Contact

Gang Gang Dance

Indie experimentalists face the mainstream with grace.

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Music Review

The Cyrillic Typewriter

The Cyrillic Typewriter

Jason Zumpano revisits the Elephant 6 sound.

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Music Profile

Jan Garbarek

By Jim Allen

True jazz fusion at its most expansive.

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Culture Review

UbuWeb

Kenneth Goldsmith

A sprawling repository of the experimental and unclassifiable.

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Music Review

Nine Types of Light

TV On The Radio

NYC mad scientists get intimate.

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Music Review

Whokill

Tune-Yards

A singular talent takes a big leap forward.

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Music Review

L.A. U.T.I.

Tobacco

Underground rappers meet experimental noisemaker.

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Music Review

Demolished Thoughts

Thurston Moore

Mostly acoustic and genuinely lovely.

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Music Review

Easy Action

The Alps

Delicate melodies with filigrees of noise.

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Music Review

Peter Gabriel (Melt)

Peter Gabriel

A perfect balance of experimentation and melody.

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Music Profile

Paul Bley

By Stewart Mason

Experimental brain, traditional heart.

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Music Review

Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will

Mogwai

Scottish post-rockers mix it up a bit.

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Music Review

Deerhoof Vs. Evil

Deerhoof

Accessible without losing their art-punk edge.

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Music Review

Ring

Glasser

A strange and lovely grower.

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Music List

Stewart Mason’s Top 10 Albums of 2010

By Stewart Mason

From the self-assured full-length debuts of Janelle Monae, Tame Impala… >>

Music Review

The Waves

Tamaryn

Epic, sonically beautiful drones.

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Music Review

Shore Obsessed

Soft Circle

Loopy ambient solo project fleshes out its sound.

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Music Review

Pyramid of the Sun

Maserati

Bittersweet career high point completed after tragedy.

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Music Review

The Way Out

The Books

Found-sound duo come back strong.

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Music Review

Sleepwalkers

David Sylvian

A decade's worth of collaborations made whole.

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Music Review

Small Craft on a Milk Sea

Brian Eno

Eno and Warp, together for the first time.

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Music Review

For the Ghosts Within

Robert Wyatt

Spectral but strangely welcoming.

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TV & Film Review

House

Nobuhiko Obayashi

A neglected Japanese horror/fantasy institution reopens its doors.

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Music Profile

Charlemagne Palestine

By Jim Allen

Underappreciated minimalist pioneer.

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TV & Film Review

Enter the Void

Gaspar Noe

A disturbing, draining, and visually astonishing experiment from a director… >>

Music Review

Dazzle Ships

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

UK synth-popsters' most challenging record.

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Music Review

Down There

Avey Tare

Animal Collective member drifts into the ether.

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Music Review

Beast Rest Forth Mouth

Bear in Heaven

Appealingly inscrutable noise gets bonus remixes.

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TV & Film Review

The Cremaster Cycle

Matthew Barney

Compelling and often indecipherable.

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Music Review

Compass

Jamie Lidell

Soul man pushes the boundaries.

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Music Review

Trilogi

Fredrik

Moody electronic soundscapes meet strummy acoustic meditations.

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Music Review

Rara Speaks

Lucky Dragons

A mixture of vintage oscillators and radio transmissions from a… >>

Music Profile

Black Moth Super Rainbow

By Stewart Mason

Lovely and creepy in equal amounts.

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Music Profile

The Books

By Stewart Mason

Sonic curiosities transmuted into ambient folktronica.

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Music Profile

Kevin Ayers

By Stewart Mason

Amiably eccentric art-rock singer-songwriter.

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Music Review

Embryonic

The Flaming Lips

Sometimes a band has to drive straight into the thickest,… >>

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Liars

By T. Cole Rachel

Often abrasive but bracingly original.

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Music Profile

Tim Buckley

By Stewart Mason

One of the most eclectic, questing musicians to emerge from… >>

Music Review

Dance Mother

Music Group

Stream-of-consciousness vocals and hypnotic, intriguing settings

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Music Review

A Woman A Man Walked By

PJ Harvey

Perhaps the singer-songwriter's most musically and emotionally varied work so… >>

Music Review

Lindstrom and Prins Thomas II

Lindstrom and Prins Thomas

Electrorganic space disco for the masses

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Music Review

Armonico Hewa

OOIOO

Sublime moments amongst the speaker-shredding noise.

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Music Profile

Chavez

By T. Cole Rachel

Short-lived but influential NYC guitar heroes.

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TV & Film Profile

Michael Winterbottom

By Eric Schneider

One of British cinema's most dynamic directors.

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Music Review

Logos

Atlas Sound

Bradford Cox's most assured release to date: equal parts dreamy… >>

Music Profile

My Bloody Valentine

By Stewart Mason

Late-blooming sonic pioneers turned musical hermits.

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Music Review

Popular Songs

Yo La Tengo

Nearly 25 years after their first release, the Hoboken trio… >>

Music Review

Pedal Steal

Terry Allen

A surreal, haunting ballet score sketching out the life and… >>

Music Profile

High Places

By T. Cole Rachel

Unexpectedly warm records that sound like what trees and animals… >>

TV & Film Profile

Steven Soderbergh

By Josh Ralske

A creative chameleon, surprisingly consistent in his work’s thoughtfulness and… >>

Music Review

Spirit of Eden

Talk Talk

A mysterious, spiritual, sensual masterwork.

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Music Profile

Talk Talk

By Ryan Reed

A career built out of defying expectations.

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Music Review

Are We Experimental?

Acid Mothers Temple

About as far as rock can go.

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TV & Film Profile

Lars von Trier

By Eric Schneider

The enfant terrible of Scandinavian cinema.

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Music Review

Bitte Orca

Dirty Projectors

Bitte Orca shows that it's possible to approach the mainstream… >>

Music Profile

Robert Wyatt

By Stewart Mason

Prog-fusion drummer turned affecting singer-songwriter.

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Music Profile

Scott Walker

By Jim Allen

Teen idol turned adventurous art-pop crooner.

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Music Profile

Tom Waits

By Jim Allen

The man who made mincemeat out of singer/songwriter clichés.

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TV & Film Profile

David Lynch

By Eric Schneider

The most unusual Eagle Scout ever.

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Music Profile

Pavement

By Ryan Reed

Still the kings of scrappy slacker cool.

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Music Profile

Sonic Youth

By Stewart Mason

So good for so long that they're taken for granted.

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Music Review

West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum

Kasabian

Kasabian fulfills the promise hinted at in brief flashes on… >>