Chris Martins's posts

In this universe, as opposed to the proverbial parallel one, a two-hour dramatic reading of a biographical essay…

There’s something worrisome about a family band that makes dark music, but it works for young Seattle quintet Mt.…

Chalk it up to the influence of his side career as an actor, but so far, Seu Jorge has avoided falling into the same…

It’s been six years since the world met Konono N°1, the Congolese thumb-piano posse that uses jury-rigged junkyard…

It’s almost sweet that Rooney chose to title its latest album Eureka. Geffen dropped the Southern California…

It’s been a steady march for Phosphorescent’s Matthew Houck. With each album, he puts another few paces between…

Of all the words that could be used to describe the inimitable Mike Patton, “accessible” is hardly the first to come…

Flying Lotus—a.k.a. Steven Ellison—accomplishes an unusual feat with Cosmogramma: The king of L.A.’s beat scene…

When the German group Lali Puna emerged in 1999, it sounded like an upgraded Stereolab. The krautrock and Kraftwerk…

With 15 years under its belt, Southern California’s Rx Bandits has been through its fair share of muck. The band cut…

The cover of Jaga Jazzist’s One-Armed Bandit features an interchangeable set of slot-machine symbols, and the music…

Leeds-based band Wild Beasts creates "erotic downbeat music," which is a slick PR compression of something that…

Cold Cave mastermind Wesley Eisold has been a bit of a nomad over the last dozen or so years. He’s moved from Boston…

Leeds-based band Wild Beasts creates "erotic downbeat music," which is a slick PR compression of something that…

For 12 years, London’s Kieran Hebden has been subtly manipulating the bounding lines of electronic music under the…

Beach House’s development from album to album is easy to hear, but difficult to quantify. The Baltimore duo had a…

Over the course of a truly inspired career, London’s Four Tet, a.k.a. Kieran Hebden, has remained ahead of the…

Last year proved to be something of a banner year for genre-smudging Philadelphia musician/producer RJD2. The man…

The Fuck Buttons’ lore is almost too perfect. Andrew Hung grew up a fan of Aphex Twin’s dense experimental…

While bloggers raced to name the sound of Neon Indian’s Alan Palomo—“hypnagogic pop,” “chillwave,” and “glo-fi”…