Wood, Wire, and Willpower: BIG | BRAVE Patch the Circuit
With their eighth full-length album, the founders of minimalist drone-rock outfit BIG | BRAVE still struggle to break even, and the pair are painfully aware that it could end at any moment.
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Ten Years of Halocline Trance
Unlike a lot of other labels, Halocline Trance doesn’t really have one defined “sound.” But that’s what makes it especially interesting.
Quietly Brutal: Learning to Listen with Sarah Davachi
Experimental composer Sarah Davachi resists the impulse to compete by slowing down and listening.
Godspeed You! Black Emperor at History on Election Night
Godspeed You! Black Emperor weren’t supposed to spend the U.S. presidential election night at Drake’s nightclub in the Beaches, but here we are.
Always Dreaming: On Diamond Jubilee and Hauntology
Cindy Lee’s compositions are fiddly little slices of heaven. She writes pop songs about memory and loss, sung in a delicate falsetto, backed by sweet harmonies.
Revolutionary Rhymes: The Collective Power Behind Rapper Cee Reality’s “Fuck The Colonizers”
The new album by Cee Reality channels all the rage, frustration and hope that Cee has felt welling up in the last year since Oct. 7 and Israel’s ongoing genocide of Palestinians.
Deep Digs: Breach Of Trust - Songs For Dying Nations (2000)
In this installment of Deep Digs, Daniel G. Wilson brings us another long lost classic, highlighting Breach of Trust’s 2000 alternative rock epic, Songs For Dying Nations.