Eric Dawson

Nika Danilova hails from rural Wisconsin, where she began making music as a teenager under the intentionally provocative (for rural Wisconsin) name Zola Jesus.

Few arists have been as influential on future generations of electronic musicians as Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius and their groups Cluster and Harmonia.

The vinyl-crammed confines of Lost and Found Records, where Vaygues’ singer/organist/guitarist Nathan Moses has worked for over a decade, is the perfect place to discuss the band’s history, future, and new 7-inch record.

The Skull Defekts have a well-defined template from which they rarely deviate, creating a repetitious, rhythmic powerhouse of a sound created by two drummers and two guitarists, with everybody taking turns adding texture with electronics and synthesizers.

Some singles, such as the Panthers’ “Malkaus” and the Fore Thoughts’ “Jungee,” sound nearly indistinguishable from a beach-party record an American band might have released, but the B-sides are more bhangra than Baja.

Though it sounds like a word used to describe a creepy older relative you don’t want your kids around, “peduncle” is actually an anatomical term referring to various types of connective stalks found in plants, fish, insects, arachnids, and human ...

More of more or less the same isn’t necessarily a bad thing from a group with such a distinctive, purposeful method as Earth.

Wire will always be most admired for their first three albums, a trio of erratic but accessible post-punk benchmarks recorded in the late ’70s. But there are plenty of great moments scattered throughout their on again-off again career, and their ...

Surface Hoar is the audio project of Matthew Amundsen, and Streetwalker is a six-track, half-hour collage created entirely from sounds recorded during a ghost tour through the streets of Charleston, S.C. As you might expect, the album has a dark ...

Wednesday, Nov. 17, saw one of the most unusual and eclectic, not to mention noisy, lineups that Pilot Light has had in a while.