Bits

Published on November 28th, 2018

Some people appear to us so fully formed on first sight, it’s like they emerged from the womb with their attitude and style. But the »

Published on November 26th, 2018

For a band that hasn’t released a proper new album since 1995, D.R.I. is in demand. Dirty Rotten Imbeciles, born in Texas in 1982, keep »

Published on November 25th, 2018

The promise of death is arguably what makes life worth living. If there were no stakes to circumnavigate there could be no real growth, and »

Published on October 31st, 2018

The Transcaucasian Highway is a hundred-mile mountain pass connecting Russia with two republics to the south. No worries if you’ve never heard of it. I »

Published on October 31st, 2018

UNWED SAILOR Avant garde, experimental, instrumental music may not be the first thing the average person would pick out to jam to, but Unwed Sailor »

Published on October 31st, 2018

In 1997, the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn and Titan took off from a launchpad on Florida’s Space Coast. Notable as a joint effort between NASA »

Published on October 30th, 2018

The identical twin brothers who founded Blac Rabbit are at first glance outliers. Born and raised in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, Amiri and Rahiem Taylor grew »

Published on October 30th, 2018

There is poetic justice in the marketplace writing obituaries for media such as print: left for dead by the masses and corporate interests, they become »

Published on October 29th, 2018

If any song just sounds like the 1980s, the decade when rock and disco — guitars and synths, drum kits and drum machines — figured »

Published on October 29th, 2018

First things first: Pond is not Tame Impala; not really. Some Pond members have played in Tame Impala before, and some currently do. But while a »

Published on October 29th, 2018

If you think of raw DIY creativity in hip hop, you think of Atmosphere. With their blunt lyricism and bracing homemade beats, twin pillars Slug »

Published on October 13th, 2018

Twenty-one is a milestone: A gateway in years lived to legalized drinking and gambling; and the first full turn around the sun after completing that »