The debut release from Texas transplants Parquet Courts fell under the radar, due in no small part to its exclusive release on cassette. Luckily, New York-based What's Your Rupture re-released the Light Up Gold LP, a refreshingly brisk album of snotty-n-stoned punk with crisp guitar breaks and... More >>

A year away from completing their first decade of releasing music, Hyperdub, the London dubstep and electronic label that has put out tunes from artists such as Darkstar, Burial, Laurel Halo, and the Bug, is touring the country with a roster of artists who will all move your brain—and, of... More >>

As one of Brooklyn's most prolific and resilient units, rock experimentalists Oneida maintain a state of perpetual motion that equals only their own hypnotic rhythms. In the past three years, they've played day-long "Ocropolis" concerts, they've put out albums, singles, and live LPs, and... More >>

"Not a 'project': a real band" promises this experimental power trio consisting of Marc Ribot (guitar), Shazad Ismaily (bass, electronics), and Ches Smith (drums). And their fairly recent Your Turn proves it with a lubricious hard-rock frenzy miles beyond their clinkety-clank 2011 debut. It's... More >>

Tavi Gevinson is the ultimate cool girl. In 2008, the 11-year-old started the fashion blog Style Rookie. Three years later, she sported silver hair while chatting up Anna Wintour and Karl Lagerfeld at New York Fashion Week. Now she’s in charge of Rookie, an online magazine written... More >>

The Italian progressive rockers formerly known as the Cherry Five entered horror-movie history in 1975 when, Pink Floyd being unavailable, Goblin stepped in at the last minute to score Dario Argento’s ultraviolent giallo classic Profondo Rosso. Combining the technical smarts of bands like... More >>

Brooklyn’s Shapeshifter has already established itself as a haven for jazz-metal, but now NYC forward-thinkers Zevious enter into the fray: The trio’s deconstruction of the Minutemen's jazz-damaged punk, Nels Cline avant-guitar godliness, and Behold The Arctopus-like tech-metal... More >>

The Meat Puppets are one of those bands whose omnipresence and influence within alternative music can't be missed: From Nirvana to Pavement, this cowpunk band and early SST Records signee, fronted by Phoenix’s Kirkwood brothers, have been unapologetically themselves since the early '80s.... More >>

Back in gear after a several year absence, the visceral nature of early Nine Inch Nails has given way to something more rewardingly cerebral. Reunion album Hesitation Marks plays like the sonic equivalent of a long, winding tour through fossilized wormwood. Life may not have frontman Trent... More >>

Among the best of this fine all-over-the-map guitarist's albums is his 2003 tribute to Zhou Xuan and Bai Guang, two of China's so-called Seven Great Singing Stars during the 1930s and '40s. Lucas, who discovered the shidaiqu sound while living in Taiwan, updates their sultry, sentimental, and... More >>

In 1997, feminist punk icon Kathleen Hanna of Bikini Kill retreated to her bedroom to create an excellent home-recorded solo album titled Julie Ruin. Six years later, this past June, Hanna's vision for the project expanded into a full-band affair with a fast and fierce punk song "Oh Come On."... More >>

This weekly jazz jam at the newly expanded Spike Hill bar in Williamsburg is as raucous as anything else on its stretch of Bedford. But the rotating cast of players is solid, the veggie burger is hot, and really, doesn't that newest Beacon's Closet discovery deserve to be aired out somewhere classy? More >>

Have you ever stared longingly at the Brooklyn Bridge and thought, I wish I could climb that? Brooklyn Boulders, an 18,000-square-foot refuge for the urban climber located near the Gowanus, is happy to give you a shot. In addition to providing massive synthetic boulders, 360-degree climbing... More >>