Loud-Ass Guitars for a Crumbling Planet
Plus Pile’s most ambitious work, Kaytranada’s return to form, and a Faye Webster associate who channels Holden Caulfield
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“Take the Intimate and Make it Epic”
Director Bao Nguyen chats IRL on 'The Greatest Night in Pop,' his documentary about the making of "We Are the World."
Dijon Is Daddy
The musical omnivore’s outrageously great (and horny and wrenching) second album ‘Baby’ scrambles pop convention as it pays loving tribute to his wife and young son.
These Japanese Dudes Are Really Going Nuts With Old Tape Machines
Plus an exuberant rap ode to a classic video game heroine, ambient music that makes the outside world sound a little gentler, and more
Come Hang at Our Blake Mills and Pino Palladino Listening Party in L.A.
On August 27, Hearing Things goes bicoastal with a listening event and live Q&A presented with legendary jazz label Impulse! and L.A. hi-fi temple In Sheep’s Clothing.
On Quincy Jones and the Legacy of 'The Wiz'
Excerpts from Celebrate Brooklyn’s recent panel on Sidney Lumet’s 1978 classic and Quincy Jones, moderated by our very own Dylan Green.
The Most Subversive Popular Musician of the Decade
Plus a beloved alté pop star shreds up the existential club
I Took a Party Bus to ‘The Black Parade’
Submitting to the regime of my new old emo overlords, My Chemical Romance
Joshua Chuquimia Crampton of Los Thuthanaka Breaks Down 6 Perfectly Produced Records
From Bolivian charangueada to Japanese heavy metal, these are the productions that inspire the visionary guitarist.
It’s Not Me, It’s You
This week’s picks include music for your next breakup, as well as perfectly gritty New York rap and electro-pop for sexy vampires
How Raekwon’s ‘Only Built 4 Cuban Linx’ Helped Me Appreciate Clarks Wallabees
An ode to the timeless suede moccasins as depicted on the Wu-Tang member’s timeless solo debut
A Basement Rock Tour de Force
Plus a brutal and oddly calming electronic soundtrack for society’s future collapse