The historical scope of Benjamin Piekut's study of avowedly experimentalist music in Experimentalism Otherwise is confined to what Peikut tantalizingly describes as "four disastrous confrontations ...

Over nine albums and a career that spans a decade, Grouper (AKA Liz Harris) has blurred the line between performer and listener. Her skeletal and revelatory songs use analogue recording equipment as ...

Faye Webster, whose indie guitar love songs solidify her prodigious presence in the alternative music scene and whisk fans away into romantic reverie, released her new single “Lego Ring” on January 11 ...

In the past, the Arctic Monkeys have hurtled down an electrifying highway filled with psychedelic punk potholes and glam-rock speed bumps. Now, with their seventh album, The Car, the band is swiftly ...

This project evolved by the DJ and musician Glen Brady (DJ Wool/The Glass/Dark), a Dubliner who has lived in New York, Berlin and San Francisco, is rooted in eclecticism. The Beastie Boys and Butthole ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The man with the “Mr Thumbs Aloft” nickname starts his new album with both thumbs pointing glumly downwards. “I don’t ...