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Memory, Relics, and the Delayed Recognition of Cultural Cornerstones The "legendary" status of Loveless built up like a feedback loop with a bit of a delay. The UK presses were doing their usual thing of hyping things up (so they can knock it down later... a vicious, pernicious

The word "outtakes" poisons the well before we even begin listening. It suggests material that wasn't quite good enough, the songs that didn't make the cut—creative leftovers relegated to the margins. But Sontag Shogun and Lau Nau's Päiväkahvit demands we abandon

Five Modes of Constraint in the Age of Abundant Music I. Introduction: The Age of the Skip In the algorithmic present, music lives or dies in six seconds. On TikTok, that window is the difference between obscurity and virality. On Spotify, it’s the length of a skip-rate metric. Hooks

It’s 2006 in Houston, and the evening air hums with the strange promise of resonance. Nameless Sound, the city’s quietly radical nonprofit for experimental music and improvisation, is hosting a concert at the Friends Meeting House—a Quaker space of radical stillness designed by James Turrell, where light

We saw them play at the Notting Hill Arts Club in either 1999 or 2000, when their lo-fi aesthetic of the tape hiss almost being a 4th member fit the basement vibes of the venue to a tee. Their sonic palette evolved over the decades since, arguably thanks to the

"It's so nice, I had to get it twice!" Pictured here are two editions of Ultra Vivid Scene's self-titled debut from 1988. The top copy is the original 4AD/Rough Trade issue, and the lower is the 1992 reissue on Columbia. As to why

The First Time I Heard It Feed Me Weird Things, the debut long-player from Squarepusher, née Tom Jenkinson, recently celebrated its quarter century anniversary, marked by a remastered reissue on Warp Records. Pictured here is the original 1996 edition, courtesy of Richard D. James's Rephlex label. In addition

It's hard NOT to have an opinion about the Beatles, although now that I think about it, I'd say that if one doesn't have an opinion about them, it's likely that they've never been a part of your life, which