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Always Autumn
The sparely-lit stage of a punk show, camera moved during shuttering to create a purple and yellow-blurred portrait of a drum kit, a guitarist, a singer.

Last Night I Went to a House Show

By Autumn Wright • June 13th, 2023

Folded arms, cold gazes, straight couples dressed like they wanna be at a club in Williamsburg, which is to say “Kind of gay, but don’t be mistaken.”

The Burnt Offering
American composer Laurie Spiegel seated at several synthesizers and computers in her electronic music studio.

The Kosmische Cosmos

By Stu Horvath • June 6th, 2023

Electronic music is thoroughly modern music. And the truth about the folklore that these sorts of projects score is that it’s thoroughly modern folklore.

Noise Complaint
The member of Ghost Bath, clad in all black, pose stoically in front of a huge stained-glass window.

Black Metal Mythmaking, Gatekeeping, and Points In Between

By Ben Sailer • May 31st, 2023

Black metal musicians have long used secrecy and controversy to generate notoriety.

Noise Complaint
Three hands reach towards a slate-blue sky. They seem to be illuminated by a the light of a deep orange sunset, or perhaps a fire.

Calling In a Noise Complaint

By Ben Sailer • April 26th, 2023

After four and a half years of writing the Collision Detection column, Ben starts something new by going back to something old.

The Beat Box
A snapshot of Butters the cat, a soft tabby in mid-meow. She was a great one.

Noteworthy Hip Hop – April 2023

By Noah Springer • April 25th, 2023

RIP to a real one.

The Beat Box
A group photo of the Wu-Tang Clan standing in the desert, backlit by a dusky sunset.

Enter the Wu-Tang

By Noah Springer • February 24th, 2023

2023 marks the 30th anniversary of Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) and something like the 18th anniversary of Noah listening to it.

Always Autumn

A Golden Halo That Could Be the Sun Part I: Whose Apocalypse Is This?

By Autumn Wright • February 9th, 2023

What does the beauty of a world born anew look like from the depths?

Rookie of the Year
A photograph of the folk duo Sylvan Esso wearing chambray shirts and standing amidst some thorny branches near what looks like a folk festival barricade.

No Rules Newport

By Matt Marrone • February 3rd, 2023

Something happened at the most recent Newport Folk Festival – Sylvan Esso debuted their as-yet-to-be-released and previously-unheard album, No Rules Sandy – for the first time.

The Beat Box

Noteworthy Hip Hop – January 2023

By Noah Springer • January 24th, 2023

A little wrap-up of potential classics Noah overlooked last year.

Screenshot from Mitski's Working for the Knife video, where she is wearing silk pajamas and cuddling very close to a wooden banister

Working for the Knife (and Being the Knife)

By Sara Khan • January 12th, 2023

When I see Mitski for myself, I am tip-toed, leaning this way and that, reaching for an angle to see her over that glowing phone screen-sea.

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