Emily A. Sprague’s Cyano isn’t just an album — it’s an entire world. Sprague, perhaps best known for her folk project, Florist, expands her sonic world through modular synthesizers and hazy ...

Imagine that every night when your head hits the pillow, you could dream anything you wanted. Sounds great, right? Maybe not. The British philosopher Alan Watts believed that most of us would grow ...

Welcome to FUZZY MEADOWS, where we recap the past week (or in this case, month) in music. We're sharing our favorite releases of the month in the form of albums, singles, and music videos along with ...

Unless Chat Pile tragically re-tread the same bloody tracks as fellow Midwesterner Jackson Pollock, whose cruisin’-for-a-bruisin’ lifestyle ended when he smashed a car into a tree, it may be time to ...

Nate Amos spent a decade on Bandcamp before formally launching his solo project, This Is Lorelei. His Double Double Whammy debut in 2024, Box for Buddy, Box for Star, sincere and swift, quickly placed ...

Protomartyr are back with their seventh studio album Hotel Usona, further expanding the sound they've developed over the years, rooted in their Detroit post-punk background. The album is based on ...

Aly Eleanor: How do your formative experiences with music ripple into the present, as listeners, musicians, and people who think deeply about it. Juliette Davis: My dad was a musician and both my ...

Melbourne, Australia's Tropical Fuck Storm are back touring the U.S. to promote their new live album Inflatable Graveyard. I sat down with the band the day they arrived in Chicago for the first show ...

If releasing a debut is an intimidating affair then releasing a debut after announcing the end of your much beloved previous band is probably a crushing affair. Especially if said band was Black Midi, ...

Welcome to Various Artists! This is a new quarterly column highlighting compilations, the people who make them, and the causes they champion. For the inaugural issue, I’m covering six different albums ...