Andy Battaglia writes about music and culture of various other kinds from a home base in New York. His work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Wire, the National, SPIN, Artforum, New York, Pitchfork, and the Onion A.V. Club, among other publications. He’s also one of the organizers of Unsound Festival New York, a festival for experimental, electronic, and progressive music from around the world.
Julia Holter makes music for an ever-changing carnival of the mind. One m… more »
AraabMuzik makes hip-hop that, heard from any other vantage point, sounds… more »
AraabMuzik makes hip-hop that, heard from any other vantage point, sounds… more »
Oneohtrix Point Never has assumed an important place in the sound and the… more »
It used to be easier to pretend that an album was its own perfectly self-… more »
AraabMuzik makes hip-hop that, heard from any other vantage point, sounds… more »
And then there were two — namely, after the suicide of bassist Sean… more »
It used to be easier to pretend that an album was its own perfectly self-… more »
HTRK's Work (work, work) is a curious mix of dark and light. The overall … more »
Like many other young musicians who work with old synthesizers (see also:… more »
From the beginning, when he started lacing the spectacle of rock with ide… more »
Flying Saucer Attack spread the rush and rustle of rock thin and wide on … more »
We all know about the "Difficult Second Album" — the oft-… more »
More than just an album on which Thom Yorke appears (though the presence … more »
Greeted as a genius when he started tooling with the more "musical… more »
The work of Raymond Scott lends invaluable context to an electronic-music… more »
It always helps to start at the beginning, and it would be hard to go bac… more »
Ever since they sashayed out of the Chicago post-rock scene in the mid … more »
The members of Elk City have toiled somewhere in a nowhere-zone of indie-… more »
Mesmerizing like an ambient electronic album but rigorous and tender in a… more »
Among the most bumptious and thwacking of the many Arthur Russell gems ex… more »
The only instrument more inherently mesmerizing than a music box is the g… more »
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