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 meets the 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 ...
Kitshickers Interview: A Chat With Gilles Heinisch
After reviewing their masterpiece of an EP, we reached out to Gilles Heinisch of Kitshickers for a brief interview. Read what he had to say below! AltWire [Natasha Lopez de Arenosa]: You have performed ...
Kitshickers – III.O: A Mind-Blowing Experience
I stumbled over Kitshickers from Luxembourg early in the year, exploring pre-orders from bands and artists. I found the PledgeMusic mission for Kitshickers, and I just couldn’t ignore a band that would give proceeds ...
Album Review: Balance and Composure
For their third album Light We Made, Balance and Composure went with the ideology of “don’t make the same record twice.” The boys from Doylestown, Pennsylvania return with another record worth giving spin just from hearing ...
The Shortlist – September 9, 2016
As Fall approached and the days continue to get shorter in the Northern Hemisphere the musical landscape is beginning to follow suit with calmer, more introspective themes and even drifting into downright darkness at times. ...
La liste des finalistes – 2 septembre 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 ...
The Shortlist – August 27, 2016
This week is full of chill, atmospheric jams with a few bangers here and there, so plug in this playlist and wind down from a long week. 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 sort un clip vidéo surprenant « Stick To Your Guns »
Some only remember George Watsky as the pale kid who raps fast. But to others, Watsky is much more than that. The poet, rapper, producer, social leader and now published author built his career ...
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 – Critique de « Side Pony »
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 ...