Hundred Waters: “Cavity”

Songs
I bet Hundred Waters would make a mean soundtrack. The Gainsville, Florida quartet’s music has a cinematic, weightless quality that would kill in, I don't know, maybe an apocalyptic space drama or something. ...

tUnE-yArDs
“Water Fountain”

Songs
Merill Garbus, the tUnE-yArDs mastermind, makes music in a world of its own. Garbusville (lol, just a goofy name I thought to call her world, lol) is a world where ramshackle African rhythms, gnarly basslines a...

Q&A with
Dan Deacon

Interviews, Madison
Dan Deacon is a wizard. He's one of modern music's most fascinating, unique, and hard-working artists and he won't stop anytime soon. Deacon released his most recent set of kaleidoscopic, immersive electro-pop,...
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St. Vincent
St. Vincent

Albums
Annie Clark, better known as St. Vincent, is what some would call a workaholic. The 31-year-old art rocker served as a teenage tour assistant for relatives, went on to enroll in and (thankfully) drop out of mus...

Wild Beasts: “Wanderlust”

Songs
In the hyper-digitized, saturated music world, sometimes its day-to-day mechanics can start to feel inconsequential. When three zillion songs are posted to the web daily, the true "standouts are sometimes di...

5 Questions with
Weekend

Interviews, Madison
Weekend are a Brooklyn-via-West Coast noise pop outfit who released their sophomore LP, Jinx, earlier this year. The group has forged an interesting sound with familiar yet distant tools. Think The Cure’s dream...