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Ancient Romans ******* DRAG CITY/SUN ARK Over a handful of albums, Sun Araw main man Cameron Stallones has become adept at getting neck-deep in swampy dub, even as he drizzles [...]

Ground Zero Generals ******* THE SOCIAL REGISTRY Not as spine-chilling as OFWGKTA, but less bloody! Born of an after-school program in Bushwick, Brooklyn, this group of five MCs teamed up [...]

Feel It Break ******* DOMINO Another brooding, keening siren haunts the machine Despite taking the name of the Latvian goddess of light, this Canadian trio craft dark and turbid moods. [...]

Channel Pressure ****** MEXICAN SUMMER Domo arigato, Mr. Lopatin, your disco fantasia rules Last year, Daniel Lopatin's playfully caustic solo noise project Oneohtrix Point Never earned minor acclaim, as did [...]

THERE'S A SUBLIMINAL aside on Tomboy's measured opener 'You Can Count on Me,' when a distorted voice whispers, 'I am out here for you.' Go figure that Noah 'Panda Bear' [...]

Start and Complete ********** DOMINO Geeky U.K. art-pop wet dream just a dry one-off Recorded in one day, the debut by Hot Chip's Alexis Taylor, This Heat percussionist Charles Hayward, [...]

IN THE RED ********** Motor City garage punks rev up their cosmic cars Ever since the mid-'90s electronica boom, rock and techno have had a patchy history, at best. But [...]

Le Noise Call this retirement-age rocker a 'crank' and he's likely to just turn it up to ten, as he does on his fieriest album since Kurt quoted 'Hey Hey, [...]

[red circle] [red circle] [red circle] [red circle] [red circle] [red circle] [red circle] [white circle] [white circle] [white circle] PAW TRACKS The animalistic half of the Collective prowls on [...]

[red circle] [red circle] [red circle] [red circle] [red circle] [white circle] [white circle] [white circle] [white circle] [white circle] COLUMBIA/SONY Little fluffy clouds on the dark side of the [...]

[red circle] [red circle] [red circle] [red circle] [red circle] [red circle] [red circle] [white circle] [white circle] [white circle] TEMPORARY RESIDENCE Brooklyn post-rockers mourn by grooving Of all the [...]

[red circle] [red circle] [red circle] [red circle] [red circle] [red circle] [red circle][red circle] [white circle] [white circle] WARP Pop music's brain-for-hire gets best out of himself Glam godfather, [...]

Pop Negro ****** XL Not a frown to be found in border-crossing fantasia While autumnal light now means shorter days, inside the music of Spanish producer Pablo Diaz-Reixa, there's always [...]

HAS THERE EVER been a persona quite like the Mercury Prize-winning Antony Hegarty? One who so effortlessly straddles popular song and the avant-garde? Perhaps Bjork, his duet partner on the [...]

Restless People ****** IAMSOUND Living in Williamsburg is so effin' rad, am I right?! Flashing the same sort of polyglot pop skills and omnivorous appetite as fellow Brooklynites Yeasayer, Restless [...]

Pink Graffiti ****** WESTERN VINYL Shrewdly pretty tribute to indie's beloved choirboys While spi n's No. 1 Album of 2009, Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavilion, had its head-swimming sonics instantaneously [...]

Part II: The New December ****** ASTHMATIC KITTY Cryptic, bookish pop-funk disappears up own booty As their 'The Beautiful Ones' contribution to spin 's Purplish Rain compilation last year proved, [...]

Night Work ****** UNIVERSAL Deliriously giddy mimics still high on own supply Scissor Sisters' playfully campy 2004 self-titled debut sailed over American heads straight to the top of the European [...]

LP4 ******* XL Funky sophisticates cater to your every mood Four albums on, Mike Stroud and Evan Mast have barely altered their instrumental electro/indie/ hip-hop hybrid, except to expand and [...]

Before Today ******* 4AD If chillwave admitted that people like having sex With a label upgrade and real studio time, one might expect the fragrant four-track smog to lift from [...]

CRANK UP 'Dance Yourself Clean,' the opening track on LCD Soundsystem's third album, at your own peril: a pitter-pat of drums and main man James Murphy's muttering lead to a [...]

On the day we meet with Steven Ellison, the 26-year-old laptop genius better known as Flying Lotus has spent the better part of the morning at home in L.A.'s hip [...]

FORTY MINUTES INTO her latest album, Joanna Newsom voices the under-two-minute 'On a Good Day' with a calm drawl: 'Hey hey hey, the end is near.' Never mind that two [...]

WHILE ONE CAN feel saturated by classic rock on an almost hourly basis--be it strategic Who or Bon Jovi television placements, Led Zep lunch hours, or a swath of Sirius [...]

IS THERE A band that better embraces the trajectory of dweeb chic than London quintet Hot Chip? In previous generations, their primary songwriters--bespectacled Alexis Taylor and bloke-ish Joe Goddard--would've been [...]

'THERE WAS A point in my life--age nine--when I preferred Bartok to Def Leppard, and my classmates thought I was being elitist,' recalls Owen Pallett, Final Fantasy's mastermind. 'That's the [...]

All Around the World Musically and geographically, Nigerian chanteuse Nneka Egbuna, 28, is tough to pin down. When we finally get ahold of her, she's in Johannesburg for South Africa's [...]

THE REACH OF Western monoculture, the end of apartheid, the Internet, mp3 file-sharing ... we may never know what seismic historical shift to thank for the musical stew that is [...]

Omar Souleyman Dabke 2020 ******** SUBLIME FREQUENCIES Don't let appearances deceive--dude rips it up For Fox News and likely many Americans, Syrian pop star Omar Souleyman's mere visage--turbaned, sunglassed, and [...]

Six Organs of Admittance Luminous Night ***** DRAG CITY Still plucking ominously until the break of dawn Releasing dungeon-dark freak-folk records since the Clinton era, Six Organs of Admittance's Ben [...]

That's my shit!' shouts David Longstreth in the middle of his pad Thai lunch. He's just seen one of his lyrics misquoted in a review of Bitte Orca, the new [...]

The article profiles Flying Lotus producer Steven Ellison. He was born into a musical family having roots in soul and 1960s jazz and grew up in the neighborhood of Winnetka in the San Fernando Valley, California. The great aunt Alice Coltrane, the jazz pianist and harpist, was the biggest influence on the music of Ellison. He upgraded houses with every new album, such as the apartment he lived while recording "Los Angeles," his 2008 sophomore album.

The article reviews the music release "II," by The Psychic Paramount.

The article reviews the music release "III: Arcade Dynamics," by Ducktails.