Daily Newsletter, May 15, 2024

By Ljubinko Zivkovic, Rock At Night Amsterdam Review: The Ar-Kaics – See the World on Fire – Release date May 3, 2024 Dystopian themes in rock, have been there since rock music got ‘serious’ back [...]

We get four elongated meditations on movement in stillness, Deupree, Branciforte, and other involved musicians proving that it is not the media you use, but the content that you present that counts.

If you stick to dictionaries, the definition of one-hit wonder(s) (in music), seems to be quite simple - “a musical group that has achieved recognition on the b

My body instantly locks in with the driving drumbeat — my pulse, my breathing, the insatiable urge to bop along. The guitar chords ripple and shimmer, and a tail of colorful dissolving static seems to follow every steady strum. The music feels plastic and brittle yet glows like a neon sign, blurring together the organic and synthetic into something grimy and hyperreal. It carries on in this alluring state for about 15 seconds. Then, after a brief pause, the bass drops, Joey Vannucchi’s grizzled vocals enter the frame, and that bleary, distant beauty shifts to the foreground, its undertow now so powerful that I’m instantly swept away.

Post-progressive label Kscope have been putting out quality records for more than 15 years: These are their best albums

Exploring the life and times of Juca Chaves, the incredible Brazilian musician and satirist who was exiled to Portugal by the military dictatorship of Brazil.

By Tim Powis Let’s begin with a bit of nonsense: “Historically… writing on jazz has been of such a low standard, has failed so signally to convey any sense of the animating dynamics of the mu…

Here are some of the best new books out this week, what they are about, and why you should add them to your TBR!

Getting the most from your music doesn't have to cost the earth - so here's our pick of budget hi-fi speakers with big sounds

Hear lead single "Stages Of Capitulation."