Album Review: Mirrors For Psychic Warfare [Self-Titled]
Experimental noise meets doom metal at its darkest. Mirrors For Psychic Warfare is is more draining, both intellectually and emotionally, than nearly any album I can recall. This album is a must-listen.
Album Review: Ryan Cassata – “Shine”
Singer/ Songwriter Ryan Cassata is making himself well known in the music industry. For those who weren’t familiar with Ryan before reading this review, he is also an actor, filmmaker, public speaker, writer and ...
Album Review: Aenaon – Hypnosophy
An avant-garde fusion of progressive black metal and jazz. A very solid pickup, Hypnosophy is not an album for black metal purists and rigidly-defined genre warriors.
Valencia Interview: Q&A with Shane Henderson
On 12/27/17 at Webster Hall in New York City the band Valencia was reunited to play for the first time since their hiatus in December 2013. It’s Safe to Say that the fans are ...
Ryan Cassata Interview: A Q&A
Back in Early November, I got to catch up with singer/ songwriter LGBT activist Ryan Cassata who performed at my school William Paterson University. He and his band came to perform a set, as ...
AltWire Playlists – Erik’s Stoner Rock Playlist
Fuzz pedals, big amps and guitars tuned down a step or two is pretty much all you need to write a stoner rock song. In this playlist I picked 10 stoner songs that are ...
Toro Y Moi: Chaz Bundick se encuentra con Mattson 2
Chaz Bundick, more commonly known as Toro y Moi, is back with the help of the Mattson 2. For his second release of 2016, he has teamed up with the Matson 2 and the ...
Entrevista a Kitshickers: una charla con Gilles Heinisch
Después de reseñar su obra maestra de EP, contactamos a Gilles Heinisch de Kitshickers para una breve entrevista. ¡Lea lo que tenía para decir a continuación! AltWire [Natasha Lopez de Arenosa]: Has actuado...
Kitshickers – III.O: Una experiencia alucinante
Me topé con Kitshickers de Luxemburgo a principios de año, mientras buscaba pedidos anticipados de bandas y artistas. Encontré la misión de PledgeMusic para Kitshickers y no pude ignorar a una banda que donaría las ganancias...
Reseña del álbum: Balance and Composure
Para su tercer álbum Light We Made, Balance and Composure se adhirieron a la ideología de “no hacer el mismo disco dos veces”. Los chicos de Doylestown, Pensilvania, regresan con otro disco que vale la pena escuchar solo por escucharlo...
La lista de candidatos preseleccionados – 9 de septiembre de 2016
A medida que se acerca el otoño y los días continúan acortándose en el hemisferio norte, el paisaje musical comienza a seguir su ejemplo con temas más tranquilos e introspectivos e incluso a veces se desvía hacia la oscuridad total.
The Shortlist – September 2, 2016
September is here and with it comes a whole crop of killer new preview tracks and one-off singles. Here is a list of the week’s best and brightest releases complete with plenty of great earworms and ...
La lista de finalistas – 27 de agosto de 2016
Esta semana está llena de temas relajantes y atmosféricos con algunos éxitos aquí y allá, así que ponte esta lista de reproducción y relájate después de una semana larga. Dawes – When the Tequila Runs Out...
Frank Ocean’s Unveils Visual Album “Endless”
Frank Ocean’s highly anticipated follow up to Channel Orange is finally coming. Fans have been promised the album for year only for the project to be plagued with delays and changes. It seems like, barring any ...
The Shortlist – August 20, 2016
Summer isn’t over yet and some of the most hotly anticipated albums of 2016 are still to come. This week’s shortlist of the best new releases is chock-full of preview tracks and feel-good summer jams ...
Album Review: blackbear, cashmere noose
I’d just like to start this review off by saying what the hell Frank Ocean. Words cannot describe how upset I am that Boys Don’t Cry didn’t come out on Friday. It seems like ...
Watsky lanza el sencillo sorpresa «Stick To Your Guns»
Algunos sólo recuerdan a George Watsky como el chico pálido que rapea rápido. Pero para otros, Watsky es mucho más que eso. El poeta, rapero, productor, líder social y ahora autor publicado construyó su carrera...
Altwire Review: DJ Shadow – The Mountain Will Fall
DJ Shadow made history 20 years ago with Endtroducing… a one of a kind instrumental hip-hop album composed entirely of samples. And while his later works never quite hit the same heights as that ...
The Used Add Second North American 15th Anniversary Tour
The Used have released dates and cities for the second leg to their tour celebrating fifteen years, the announcement coming after an ‘overwhelming demand’ for more; kicked off in April, the first leg of ...
Lake Street Dive – “Side Pony” Review
I have been excited about this new Lake Street Dive album for a while, but I’m just now getting a chance to listen to it. If you haven’t already heard the previous records by ...