Noise

Los Angeles songwriter Tchad Cousins, aka Urika's Bedroom, is well acquainted with the sort of dreamy Alice in Wonderland–style aesthetic of 1960s psychedelic folk.

Sometimes playing your own music isn't enough; you need to shut out the world around you. Here are our top picks for the most comfortable and effective noise-cancelling earbuds.

The music of Italian composer and multi-instrumentalist Caterina Barbieri shimmers and pulses at the intersection of ambient, new age, minimalist electronics, and drone. She uses primarily modular synthesizers to build her tracks, creating canvases of sustained tones that spread flat like aural wallpaper and then splashing them with digital and analog color, including guitar, strings, […]

Nearly two decades into their career, Locrian remain committed to keeping metal weird.

Four decades into her career, Kim Gordon's newest album is exciting, densely layered and aggressive in every sense

Known as a giant of punk and experimental rock music from the 1980s to the present day, Albini produced and engineered records for Nirvana, the Pixies, PJ Harvey and others.

These earplugs make it easier to protect your hearing in a noisy world.

Partywatcher honors his Dominican roots with an all-Spanish release, Hostages play the Bottle on the heels of their best single, and Locrian cover experimental idols Coil.

The latest version of Ableton's popular Live software has lots of new tools for would-be music makers. A new synth and some MIDI creation tools should help...

Illusion of Safety are devoted to minimalist electronics, sound collages, and ambiences that both entice and trouble.

Greg Puciato's tentacles reach into so many corners of the heavy-music community that he's pulled together an ensemble that's its own draw.

Report on a study into how mushroom networks communicate

With a who's who of forward-thinking guitarists, Bill Orcutt brings his ecstatic minimalism to the Tiny Desk.

From Sister Act to The Fighting Temptations, here are the best choir movies to watch when you're in the mood for a musical movie.

Broken Sound Records is pleased to announce Spirit Of Hamlet's debut record, Northwest of Hamuretto, due out March 17. Spirit of Hamlet is a long-distance collaboration of four absolute history-making juggernauts: Mike Watt (Minutemen, Firehose, The Stooges), Kawabata Makoto (Acid Mothers Temple), Scotty Irving (Clang Quartet), and highly-acclaimed songwriter/producer Benjy Johnson. The result is a […]

Article URL: https://econtact.ca/17_4/scott_misunderstanding.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34036666 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

When post-hardcore emo band Silverstein approached our Berlin-based art collective about a collab, AI emo seemed like a perfectly ironic thing to make exist. After training raw audio neural nets on…

The late addition to the lineup comes after M.I.A. dropped out of the festival.

The second annual Dreary North Fest promises an amazingly dense lineup of nearly 65 musical projects that expand notions of "harsh music."

At the year's half-way mark, all of tQ's editorial staff, core writers and columnists have voted for their essential 2022 albums so far, released between January and June