Experimental

Blues Experimental Rock 

The Children… and the Long Road to A Sudden Craving

July 3, 2024July 3, 2024 Brad Cohan 0 Comments Cop Shoot Cop, Gothic, Human Impact, Jim Coleman, Michael Wiener, New York City, Phil Puleo, Swans, The Children...

The gothic-blues-ambient supergroup talk their years-in-the-making second album

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Alternative Rock Art Pop Experimental Pop Rock 

A John Cale Listening Guide

July 2, 2024July 2, 2024 Justin Cober-Lake 4 Comments blackAcetate, Fear, HoboSapiens, John Cale, Lou Reed, Music for a New Society, Paris 1919, POPtical Illusion, Slow Dazzle, The Academy in Peril, The Velvet Underground, Vintage Violence

Looking back at the best titles from the Velvet Underground co-founder’s solo career

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Electronic Experimental Post-Punk 

Immersion: Where the Seagull Meets the Autobahn

June 27, 2024June 27, 2024 Tim Sommer 0 Comments 2024, Colin Newman, Cuboza, Immersion, Malka Spigel, Nanocluster Vol. 2, Swim, Thor Harris, Wire

Some nutty and extreme words about the stunning new release(s) from Colin Newman and Malka Spigel

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Experimental jazz Pop Post-Punk Progressive Rock Records Rock 

Steve Feigenbaum on 40 Years of Cuneiform Records

May 23, 2024May 23, 2024 Jim Allen 5 Comments 40th Anniversary, Cuneiform Records, Fred Frith, Henry Cow, Present, R. Stevie Moore, Random Radar Records, Soft Machine, Steve Feigenbaum, Wadada Leo Smith

An American institution of unconventional music has a big birthday

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Experimental Pop Rock Zappa 

Zappa Records Unearths 1968 Mothers Gig at the Whisky A Go Go 

May 22, 2024May 23, 2024 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2024, Ahmet Zappa, Frank Zappa, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, Joe Travers, The Mothers of Invention, The Whisky A Go-Go, Zappa Records

The previously unreleased concert will be available in multiple formats on June 21st

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Experimental Industrial Rock 

Einstürzende Neubauten Announce New Studio LP

March 25, 2024March 25, 2024 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2024, Alexander Hacke, Blixa Bargeld, Einstürzende Neubauten, Felix Gebhard, Germany, Jochen Arbeit, N. U. Unruh, Rampen (apm: alien pop music), Rudolph Moser

Rampen (apm: alien pop music) is due out April 5th

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Alternative Rock Experimental Indie Rock Noise Post-Punk Rock 

Tower of Glower: On Sonic Youth’s Walls Have Ears

February 16, 2024February 17, 2024 Raymond Cummings 0 Comments 1986, Bad Moon Rising, Bob Bert, Brighton, Goofin' Records, Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo, London, Sonic Youth, Steve Shelley, Thurston Moore, UK, Walls Have Ears

How the band learned to stop worrying and love the bootleg

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Experimental Folk Indie Rock Psychedelics Rock 

LISTEN: Seattle’s Shi**y Person Shares New Song “Hedonistic”

January 25, 2024 Ron Hart 0 Comments Benjamin Thomas-Kennedy, Dignity, Fungal Abyss, Hedonistic, Lesbian, Lori Goldston, Seattle, Shitty Person, Tad, Tad Doyle

Semi-supergroup featuring members of Tad, Nirvana and Lesbian have a new EP, Dignity, on deck

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Alternative Rock Art Pop Experimental Rock 

The Smile: Better Than Radiohead?

January 25, 2024January 25, 2024 Ted Miller 1 Comment 2024, A Light For Attracting Attention, A Moon Shaped Pool, In Rainbows, Jonny Greenwood, King of Limbs, Radiohead, The Smile, Thom Yorke, Tom Skinner, Wall of Eyes, XL Recordings

The brilliant new album Wall of Eyes certainly makes the case

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Experimental Fusion Hip Hop jazz 

André 3000 is Taking New Blue Sun on the Road

January 23, 2024January 23, 2024 Ron Hart 0 Comments Andre 3000, Andre Benjamin, Carlos Niño, Deantoni Parks, Diego Gaeta, Jesse Peterson, Matthewdavid, Mia Doi Todd, Nate Mercereau, New Blue Sun, New Blue Sun Live, OutKast, Surya Botofasina, V.C.R

Brief winter tour kicks off January 29th in Brooklyn

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Experimental jazz Rock 

Anthony Pirog’s Steady Diet of Ambience

January 23, 2024February 19, 2024 Brad Cohan 1 Comment 2023, Andy Summers, Anthony Pirog, Brendan Canty, Joe Lally, John Frusciante, Otherly Love Records, The Messthetics, The Nepenthe Series Vol. 1, Wendy Eisenberg

The versatile guitarist gets ambient with Andy Summers, John Frusciante, Nels Cline and more on his terrific new record  

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Experimental Progressive Rock Psychedelics Rock 

Can Announce New Archival Live Release

January 8, 2024 Ron Hart 0 Comments CAN, Damo Suzuki, Holger Czukay, Irmin Schmidt, Jaki Liebezeit, Live in Paris 1973, Michael Karoli, Mute Records, Spoon Records

Can Live in Paris 1973 due February 23, 2024

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Experimental jazz 

ALBUMS: Reverence for Daniela Mars

January 2, 2024January 2, 2024 Tim Sommer 0 Comments 2023, Daniela Mars, flute, Reverence for the Moment, Voces8

Digging into the true flute-based banger of 2023

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Electronic Experimental Folk Rock 

LISTEN: Linnea Hjertén Shares “Uppsåt”

December 15, 2023 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2024, Forndom, Linnea Hjertén, Ludvig Swärd, Nio systrar, Nordic folk, Shaam Larein, Sweden

Solo debut from the keyboardist of Swedish doom rock greats Shaam Larein due January 12

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Experimental Noise Post-Punk Punk 

Burning Rubber: No New York at 45

December 4, 2023February 19, 2024 Todd Manning 0 Comments 1978, 45th Anniversary, Brian Eno, DNA, James Chance, Mars, No New York, No Wave, Post-Punk, Punk, Talking Heads, Teenage Jesus and The Jerks, The Contortions

Looking back at the Brian Eno compilation that put the spotlight on the short-lived No Wave scene

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