New Music Friday: Symphonic Synth-Funk, Lysergic Dream-Pop
June 5 releases include Suzanne Ciani, Tara Clerkin Trio, Lifted and Blood Incantation.
A Home for Everyone: 20 Years in D.C.
Two decades of my favorite D.C. punk, hardcore, experimental and electronic music.
New Music Friday: Scraggly Lullabies, Wooly Drone
May 22 releases include Bill Orcutt & Mabe Fratti, Marisa Anderson, Birth (Defects), One Leg One Eye.
New Music Friday: Gossamer Grooves, Blown-Out Bliss
The Viking's Choice Guide to May 15 releases includes the Jeff Parker ETA IVtet, Touch Girl Apple Blossom and Khun Narin.
New Music Friday: Norwegian Primitive Metal, Cybernetic Salad
It's the Viking's Choice Guide to New Music Friday, featuring Darkthrone, Unwed Sailor, Amy Grant and Fire-Toolz.
New Music Friday: Ancient Zither Jazz, Soft-Rock Minimalism
DoYoen Kim, American Football, Six Organs of Admittance. It's the Viking's Choice Guide to New Music Friday, May 1!
What's Your Spring Soundtrack?
Moonshine, music and the mountains.
What Does Catharsis Mean in Music?
Two new albums explore catharsis in similar, yet different ways: 'Slowly Melting' by Janel Leppin and 'An Undying Love for a Burning World' by Neurosis.
I Never Thought I'd Hear Steve Albini's Fugazi Album
Stop literally everything. Steve Albini's Fugazi sessions, widely bootlegged and full of lore, are now available officially for the first time. Had to take a...
Hayley Williams Keeps Showing Up in My Dreams
Hayley Williams, forever a fortifying presence online, IRL and in my dreams. Plus, a new mixtape.
Noise-Rock Crash Course
Noise rock can ruin your life; this list will absolutely destroy it.
I Finally Found My Song to Start the Year
Music has a way of finding you when you need it. My song to start 2026, plus a new mixtape.
Do You Remember What the Music Meant?
For the past two decades, Pretty Make Girls Make Graves' "Speakers Push the Air" has been my song. A song about the power of music, written from the...
Mixtape: Into the Void
Mixtape No. 129 features Good Luck's mathy pop-punk, Shallowater's slowcore twang, Panopticon's epic black metal, Weston Olencki's deconstructed Americana....
The drone-jazz record that never was can now be yours
A few copies of I Heart Lung’s Interoceans have been sitting in my basement for 17 years. It’s time to let them go for a good cause. tl;dr You can buy a test...
Mixtape: New Threats
Mixtape No. 128 features Robert Forster, Enji, Pygmy Lush, Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band, Swiz, Matthew Shipp Ed. note: This is one of a handful of...
Mixtape: Different World
Mixtape No. 127 features Dark Thoughts, The Cosmic Tones Research Trio, Yowie, Broken Record, Mildred, U.S. Maple. In late May, I had a new mixtape (and a...
Mixtape: Nightclouds
Mixtape No. 126 features Josie, ente, Ellen Arkbro, nuvolascara, Stereolab, Moin, Semi Trucks First, some professional news: I'm now the Series Editor of...
Mixtape: Tangerine Drops
Mixtape No. 125 features Fine China, Earth, Kaleidoscope, BIRTH (DEFECTS), Tortoise, XIXA, Wolfgang Voigt By 1995, Dayton, Ohio already had a handful of...
Mixtape: I Am Here And Now
Mixtape No. 124 features, Valentina Goncharova, Yazz Ahmed, Messa, terraplana, Six Organs of Admittance, Florry, caroline It's hard to know what day it is or...
