Our definitive list returns! Featuring chart-topping albums, some returning veterans, and a few surprise upstarts. Join us as we count down the best albums of the year.

Shadowland is the new three-track EP from Barn Owl. It is a haunting landscape of desert skies, setting suns, and approaching darkness. Each of the [...]

Deerhunter played a live show at the Apple store in New York in September,  and now a live EP recorded at the show is being [...]

This debut from Hang Glider is a nice taste of what is to come from this solo project of Mike Puretz. Many will pass over [...]

Featuring multi-instrumentalist Emmanuel Jessua and drummer Thibault Lamy of French experimental metal band HYPNO5E, A Backward Glance On A Travel Road unleashes that same universe of [...]

Amongst the commercialized Lollapalooza and the inflated Coachella, we need smaller, secluded festivals to keep us all grounded. Fun Fun Fun Fest gives Austin a more intimate, personalized, and risk-taking lineup in counterpart of Austin City Limits, featuring some of pop culture’s most surreal un-conventionalists like Yankovic, Gwar, and Suicidal Tendencies.

There are a lot of bands that write about suburbia, but few expose its corrupted underbelly as well as Deerhunter — which makes it all [...]

The evolution of the more electronically-tuned artists that pervade the musical landscape these days can be attributed mostly to Animal Collective’s explosion in the public [...]

The Artificial Sea is a duo of American artists who put together a blend of multi-instrumental wonder from the superbly talented Kevin C. Smith with [...]

Cerulean is the bold first effort of Baths, aka Will Wiesenfeld. At just 21 years old, Wisenfeld has crafted a deep full length album, throwing [...]

It’s a never ending battle. The battle between nature and technology. The void between mechanical and manual…digital versus analog. In an attempt to try to [...]

Upon the first pass through Keegan DeWitt’s latest offering, Islands, I began setting various tracks to my unfinished soliloquy-ridden screenplay about an off-beat writer trying [...]