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.
Avant-garde saxophonist Colin Stetson’s credits as a collaborator i… more »
In its serious, almost spiritual commitment to repetition, Slava’s … more »
Karl Bartos was a member of Kraftwerk, which makes for legendary status a… more »
One way for a long-running electronic-music act to ensure their listeners… more »
Maxmillion Dunbar, a DJ/producer from Washington, D.C., makes sleek, spac… more »
For those who thought the endearingly eggheaded conceptualists in Matmos … more »
Jamie Lidell has made a career-long habit of swerving, with periods devot… more »
Buke and Gase certainly don’t lack novelty, but they also don… more »
Julia Holter makes music for an ever-changing carnival of the mind. One m… more »
Maria Minerva, a somewhat mysterious artist from Estonia, first emerged w… more »
Matthew Dear came up in the murky, mesmerizing underground of electronic … more »
Electronic Pete Swanson, Arthur Russell, Air
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 »
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 ov… 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 »
Water Curses is comprised of four songs that were recorded during the ses… more »
Flying Saucer Attack spread the rush and rustle of rock thin and wide on … more »
As they age, extreme metal merchants often inject various non-metallic styles into their songs in order to hasten their musical growth. Sometimes, as with Alcest and Jesu, they develop to the point where their original… more »
