LONG ISLAND CITY, QUEENS: Don’t take your ears off the drums: Try listening to nothing but the precision ballistics that shoot through every song on Resolution, Lamb of God’s addictive seventh studio album, and life gets almost unbearably exciting.
The source of this rhythmic exhilaration is Chris Adler, whose advanced Read more...
Something is an unusual record. It’s atmospheric yet danceable, plaintive but poppy. Its sound sparkles with a lustrous coat of wax, but it’s unafraid to remain decidedly off-kilter if not a little weird.
Stream tracks from Something at SoundCloudUnderneath the shimmering production aesthetic are Caroline Polachek’s startlingly well-performed vocals Read more...
Gillian Rivers is everything a classical violinist could want to be: She’s young, she’s beautiful, and she makes a reasonable living playing and arranging music for critically acclaimed contemporary composers. The only catch is that most of these composers turned out to be the songwriters in rock bands like MGMT, Read more...
EAST VILLAGE, MANHATTAN: What would you do if you were given the magical power to hear any song you could think of, at any moment?
While the economic implications of Spotify to artists are a topic certainly worth of debate, I have to say that the goblin-green platform has given Read more...
GREATER NYC AREA: One month into 2012, and so many artists are back in the studio, hunkered down to work on some of this year’s most anticipated releases. Tracking this activity on the regular, we can confidently note that an even wider range of artists than usual – from Read more...
