Pirouette

In E.M. Forster’s gay coming-of-age novel Maurice, the title character walks around his college campus after dark, peering into the …

Melting Moment

You call them. A dial tone. They stopped answering the phone months ago. Still, you try. The empty space between …

Blue Veil

Lucy Railton’s new album Blue Veil isolates the moment when a cello’s bow makes contact with the strings and presents …

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“jiggy”

Listening to Tovi’s “Jiggy” is what I imagine it was like to sit in a dark room in 1994 taking …

“Feisty”

As Smerz, Catharina Stoltenberg and Henriette Motzfeldt are interested in the uncanny valleys and surreal messes of young adulthood, down …

“One in a Million”

Lately, Bladee’s music has sounded like someone with a black hole in his stomach trying to irradiate his torment. Desperately …

Time Indefinite

American instrumental guitarists often conjure sprawling frontiers, but those visions can confine them. William Tyler, among the tradition’s preeminent 21st …

Live at Revolution Hall

Shortly after Adrianne Lenker’s arrival onstage at Portland’s Revolution Hall, the audience’s anticipatory silence turns giddy, breaking into warm laughter …

Under Tangled Silence

Felix Manuel, the DJ and producer better known as Djrum, has a way with sleights of hand. In an interview …

Hysteria

No one will ever explain the core appeal of Def Leppard more accurately than this lyrical excerpt taken from the …

Totality

Perpetually glazed drone trio Bitchin Bajas and minimalist polyrhythm factory Natural Information Society have once again burbled up from the …