lespecial has announced a run of spring tour dates, all in cities that start with the letter “b.” ...

In “The Uncanny Muse,” David Hajdu offers a lively survey of centuries of machines that served as instruments of cultural change.

On his own after a number of short-lived bands and the death of his friend, Thin Lizzy leader Phil Lynott, the late guitar ...

Dublin-born, London-based Tayne are changing the face of genre led music with their hybrid masterpiece, ‘LOVE.’ LOVE, the debut album from the Irish native, perfectly melds together metal, shoegaze ...

With their synth punk and deadpan humor, Devo was at the head of the new wave movement. The Akron band is heading to Columbus in June.

"It was a mix of everything that was great about Black culture," a Hofstra professor says of the genre, which burned bright ...

Listen to new songs by Bob Mould, Oklou, Guided by Voices, Saba & No ID, Throwing Muses, Anand Wilder (Yeasayer), Teen Mortgage, Rocket, Celebrity, Combust, and more.

Microsoft has taken the modernized MIDI 2.0 audio specification and is bringing it to Windows for a new age of audio ...

As if the headlines weren't looking quite Orwellian enough at the moment, Arturia has decided to give its DrumBrute Impact drum machine a retro spin with the introduction of DrumBrute Impact 1984, a ...

Shoegaze, the fuzzy, ethereal rock genre typified by U.K. pioneers My Bloody Valentine and Slowdive, has a new home base: the Keystone State.

The New York City rapper pushes hedonism to the extreme, delivering paranoid self-awareness and off-kilter cadences over ...

Welcome to Defector Music Club, where a number of our writers get together to dish about an album. Today, Tom Ley Israel ...