Andy Beta has written about music and comedy for the Wall Street Journal, the disco revival for the Village Voice, animatronic bands for SPIN, Thai pop for the Believer, New Age music for the LA Times, and judged the 2010 World Air Guitar Championships in Oulu, Finland.
When in the 1980s African artists began to make their way to world music … more »
Avant-garde aficionados might recognize Anna von Hausswolff’s surna… more »
It’s fitting that the D.C.-based electronic music duo Beautiful Swi… more »
In most other cultures, the beard is a sign of maturity, wisdom, an indic… more »
It used to be easier to pretend that an album was its own perfectly self-… more »
A decade ago, Melbourners Conrad Standish and Tom Carlyon comprised the f… more »
Not that Ulrich Schnauss could have predicted it, but the Berlin-based el… more »
When Rick Rubin trekked down to record Johnny Cash in his living room bac… more »
Despite nearly a decade spent in the industrial confines of their North B… more »
Last year’s breakout album Replicas elevated laptop noisemaker Dan … more »
Over the last few decades, wheezing analog synthesizers, tranquil New Age… more »
When Los Angeles singer-songwriter Chelsea Wolfe released her second albu… more »
Eight minutes to detail love’s dissolution on “Ballad in Plai… more »
Richmond, Virginia-reared singer/songwriter/arranger Matthew E. White rec… more »
In 1998, when baritone saxophonist Martin Perna assembled a clutch of mus… more »
Thirty-five years after it first flummoxed undergrads, weirdoes, film sch… more »
“Country Funk” — a genre named specifically for this ch… more »
When he wasn’t conjuring dust storms of noir-ish, twanging guitar w… more »
A decade into their career, it’s becoming hard to remember that, at… more »
Country music has created its fair share of superstars, icons and tragic … more »
The case against Paul & Linda McCartney's Ram (the couple's l… more »
The case against Paul & Linda McCartney's Ram (the couple's l… more »
Country music has created its fair share of superstars, icons and tragic … 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 »
