
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Photo © MCA Chicago, 2009. Photo by Dan Baldwin. The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago is once again highlighting some of the windy city's most exciting music with another round of performances for "Face the Strange: New Music Chicago and Beyond." The concert series kicks off on October 25, and runs every fourth Tuesday of the month until April 24 and features the acts performing, "one-hour sets of new music you may not have heard but should." "Face The Strange" kicks off [...]

[RSS Readers: See post to listen to audio] Having Mark McGuire venture off to work with others who understand his sound is exactly would I love hearing and i'm sure fans of his and Emeralds couldn't be more excited of result of this new one. This Ken Camden song is a lot more playful than the one I posted in the past from the same album, one thing that bums me out though is that the rest of the record doesn't really hint at this sound again, i'll take what I [...]

[RSS Readers: See post to listen to audio] Cascine Records is taking that sexy delicate pop from the Swedish glossy magazines and creating a very rich boutique genre that is soft to the touch. First, they blew me away with Selebrities and now Jensen Sportag has my ear, makes me think about the days that I started falling in love with Erlend Oye's music. Young Prisms deliver a playful wall of sound, catchy right from the start, gives me hope thinking that more and more young [...]

auf acéphale weisen wir hin, dort veröffentlicht eine band, die sich aus marcus joons und daniel tjäder, dem keyboarder von the radio dept., zusammensetzt, auf samoa begannen sie vor drei jahren miteinander zu schaffen, der pazifische traum wurde realität, hier ist die singlevorhut: korallreven - the truest faith prima, prima, das kleine label fort lowell records wird ab dem 13. juli eine ausgezeichnete single im angebot haben, "i'm afraid of everything" heißt das teil und wird auf der flip mit "feelgooddesperation" einhergehen ( nice coverart ), [...]

"Before you play two notes learn how to play one note - and don't play one note unless you've got a reason to play it." - Mark Hollis (1998) You can do a lot with one note, Kranky's latest featured artist Ken Camden lets sounds play out in real time leaving the overall soundscape relatively uncluttered. Whirring drone effects interweave and converse, just like people they sometimes come together but then clash and crash off each other with long painful groans .... and then an appreciative silence! His work blends modern composition and Krautrock-inspired 'kosmische [...]