The Jack Rubies: “Reality is currently strange enough”
The Jack Rubies returned in 2024 with 'Clocks Are Out of Time', their first album in more than 30 years. Less than two years later, the original five-piece...
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The Blasters: John Bazz Looks Back on the Band’s Classic Years
The Blasters came from Downey, California, with a repertoire grounded in early rock’n’roll, postwar Chicago blues, rockabilly and country. By the early 1980s, they had become part of...
Unsung But Not Forgotten: Julian Mount, Weaselsnout And The Private Press Afterlife Of ‘Unsung Lies’
Julian Mount emerged from the busy South East folk circuit with a record that still seems almost too singular, too private and too peculiar to have made its...
Upupayāma on ‘Honesty Flowers’: Music Should Be A Dream
On 'Honesty Flowers', Upupayāma moves away from the enclosed dream world of 'The Golden Pond' and into something more physical. The new album is built around rhythm, movement...
Daniel Benyamin Takes on AI Music With ‘Should I Care’ From ‘Life After Music’
Daniel Benyamin made 'Life After Music' in a small studio by the sea, somewhere below Mount Olympus, after months of silence, storms, animals asking for help, kittens being...
Satoko Fujii and Natsuki Tamura: Listening for What the Music Requires
Satoko Fujii and Natsuki Tamura have worked together for decades, across duo recordings, small ensembles, and larger orchestral projects. In April and early May 2026, they toured Europe...
the black watch’s John Andrew Fredrick on ‘Varied Superstitions’: “Every One of Our Songs Is a Brilliant Failure”
the black watch have been making records since 1989, and they’re still at it. Their 26th album, 'Varied Superstitions', came out on February 27, 2026, through Blue Matter...
Imaad Wasif on ‘Superconsciousness’: “I’m on My Own Trip and Always Have Been”
Imaad Wasif’s new album 'Superconsciousness' came out on March 18, 2026, through his own label, Voidist Records. It’s his seventh solo album, but it also feels like a...
With ‘Historia,’ Tonino Baliardo Keeps the Gipsy Kings’ Family Sound Moving Forward
Before the Gipsy Kings became one of the few non-English-language acts to properly break through the pop bloodstream, before 'Bamboléo' became shorthand for a certain kind of global...
The Lost Acetate That Brought Nanaimo’s Garage-Psych Outsiders The Glass Cage Back To Life
The Glass Cage story begins with an acetate found decades later in a Port Alberni thrift store. It was worn, unmarked, and separated from its original context, but...