#Domino Records

SASAMI - Squeeze _ Photo Credit Andrew Thomas Huang

Sasami Weaves a Cathartic Tapestry of History, Anger, Art and Fantasy on Squeeze

The writhing, bloody-mouthed woman-monster illustrating Sasami Ashworth's sophomore album Squeeze is fearsome but familial. As the musical, lyrical and sensory terrain of her latest album divulges, the Californian singer-songwriter has been digging into her past, her mother's family history, and...

Cat Woods

LIVE REVIEWAustra @ Warsaw

There aren’t a whole lot of pop stars that are moved by The Accelerationist Manifesto – the philosophical text penned by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams. In fact, I’d feel safe waging that Austra’s Future Politics is the only electro pop LP to be inspired by the post-capitalist school of philosophy....

Madison Bloom

ARTIST INTERVIEWHuw Bunford of Super Furry Animals

“I keep forgetting I’m on a boat!” Huw Bunford, lead guitarist of Wales’ Super Furry Animals, is sitting in a booth on the Hornblower Infinity, 4 Knots’s designated artists lounge for the one-day festival on Pier 84. “Sorry, I just saw the horizon go up and down (laughs).” It is mildly unsettling...

Madison Bloom

LIVE REVIEWDan Deacon @ The Glass House, Pomona, CA

Show review for Dan Deacon and Jetpacks and Laserguns at The Glass House in Pomona, California.

Callie Ryan

ALBUM REVIEWWild Beasts "Present Tense"

In 2002, guitarist Hayden Thorpe and guitarist Ben Little met in the charming town of Kendal in the Lake District of England. After eventually outgrowing their small town, they exchanged the rolling hills of the Lake District for the industrial streets of Leeds, where their careers began to kick...

Rebecca Kunin

ALBUM REVIEWArchie Bronson Outfit "Wild Crush"

Hailing from the charming city of Bath in southwestern England comes Archie Bronson Outfit, who make the kind of blistering rock n' roll more commonly associated with acts on our side of the pond. Since their debut in 2004 with Fur, Archie Bronson Outfit have released Derdang Derdang (2006),...

Rebecca Kunin

VIDEO OF THE WEEKCass McCombs "Big Wheel

Back in October, enigmatic folk artist Cass McCombs released his seventh full-length, Big Wheel and Others, a double album that led us through hypnotic rhythm cycles and tangential, but beautiful, guitar passages, intimate if shadowed vocal lines, and lyrics that fit together like a Rubik's...

Carena Liptak