I love this album. "In The Wee Small Hours" feels like insomnia, in the sexiest way possible. Pacing with a Winston at 3 o'clo... [...]

A strong debut EP from an unfortunately short-lived Toronto favorite. Moody, pulsing, dark and heavy disco-dance. Has one of my favorite tra... [...]

The master improviser (and occasional master prick ) doing what he does best. Recorded October 17 1988 - hence the first track - and release... [...]

So, in light of some Québecois dude bitchin' in the comments about how "English music isn't Canadian, francophonez 4 lyf, blah ... [...]

Really great collection of folk field recordings, as compiled by Henry Adam Svec, and performed by some of Canada's better known musical... [...]

Excuse me for echoing David Toop ( "Toooop doggy, dooo-ooo-ooo-ooog!" ), but I'd definitely argue that modern music's fasc... [...]

I was actually playing this game earlier today when I remembered how spectacular it's soundtrack was. On listening, it turns out that th... [...]

it's tough keeping up with contemporary composition - it can take years for a piece to be written, premiered, recorded, and maybe releas... [...]

First of all, if you're not familiar with Gogol Bordello or Balkan Beat Box, go familiarize yourself with them. "J. U. F." sta... [...]

I'm glad that in the past couple years, Fela Kuti 's been getting the recognition he always deserved. Throughout his storied life ( ... [...]

from Sweden comes this creepy little gem of a record - let's call it dark ambient. the first few tracks settle you in, but the record r... [...]

"Man With Garbage" is the accompanying CD with Pete Swanson's "Man With Potential". I don't know Pete Swanson, b... [...]

I just saw K.Flay open up for some hip-hop shit. The hip-hop shit was good, but K.Flay was fucking great--easily one of the coolest performa... [...]

So this really isn't the type of thing usually posted here, but fuck it, it's worth posting here. Based out of Montreal, WUFUNK Radi... [...]

Riding the wave that originated with Walter/Wanda Carlos' " Switched On Bach " (a masterpiece of applying synthesizers to clas... [...]

so the olivia tremor control are back, and their newer songs sound as magical as the ones contained withing their first two albums. things a... [...]

I caught a show by these cool cat's a couple years ago. Playing with two very good bands (Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Local ... [...]

Dudes, this is awesome. Getatchew Mekurya is an Ethiopian jazz saxaphone player. Particuarly active in the fifties and sixties, he was ... [...]

first things first, what a hilariously shooped cover. now, i fucking love dilla, and i fucking love pet sounds. so for me to be finding out ... [...]

You guys. Not sure why these were released as b-sides, because every track is golden. She starts unapologetically, immediately screaming her... [...]

from http://americancensorship.org/ : "The US Congress is considering America's first system for censoring the Internet. Despite pu... [...]

I recently added the 1995 movie "Dead Man" to my list of movies-I-need-to-see-but-have-heard-the-soundtrack-to. It grows and grows... [...]

precursor to black moth super rainbow and tobacco, satanstompingcateripillars is the original pseudonym under which tobacco started experime... [...]

wow. the best avant-jazz i've heard in 3 or 4 years, and not for lack of trying. this is an INTENSE record, with each track capable of... [...]

When I was on my big dub kick last month, someone mentioned this album in the comments. I tracked it down (shit's been out of print for ... [...]

i won't ruin the trip and say too much about Oramics besides that it's probably the best random discovery i've made in 2011, and... [...]

Alice Coltrane's third solo album is sheer beauty. Her simple and sparse rhythm section sit comfortably in common time, setting a suppor... [...]

I used to complain about how their weren't any albums consisting entirely of industrial techno covers of national anthems. Then I found ... [...]

Mississippi Records' collection of his early tracks. Musically jumps around from gospel to folk to blues, but all tracks are united by h... [...]

a nocturne is music to be played at, or that is evocative of, night. Chopin's sets are easily the best in the genre. why? well there... [...]

so many of you are probably aware of this already: http://americancensorship.org/ and for those who are not, its a bill trying to pass that... [...]

This is, without a doubt, my favorite folk album, and one of the most well-loved pieces of music in my life. Johnny Flynn is the British sin... [...]

Rattling live percussion mixed with drum machines beats. Distorted guitars blended with arpeggiating synths. Vocals distorted and drenched ... [...]

This is an interesting collaboration. Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, best know for his wonderful soundtrack work--"Little Buddha... [...]

Last night I worked for 13 hours, doing lights, sound, and security at the music venue employs me. Now I'm fucking beat, and this is the... [...]

This album is a wonderful place to begin exploring Indian classical music. Although it uses very non-traditional instrumentation (slide guit... [...]

Hehe. Good luck searching for this one. As gimmicky as the artist name/title might be this is a lovely ambient excursion. Some very intimida... [...]

My mind damn near exploded when I found discovered this gem during my junior year of high school. At the time, I was really into Phish and P... [...]

An incredible blind married couple from Mali, whose music straddles multiple genres. This genre-bending is immediately apparent in the haunt... [...]

Am I the only one posting here anymore? Okay, now that that's out of the way: this album kills. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, N... [...]

Enough with this intellectual nonsense. Here's a compilation of 1970s porn music. It's funky as shit. Slap bass. Tacky synths. Wah-e... [...]

MORE DUB BY POPULAR DEMAND: Keith Hudson is one of my favorite dub producers. His album "Flesh of My Skin, Blood of My Blood" is ... [...]

First and foremost: if you're one of the posters who's album this isn't , don't be mad at me. Y'all threw so much good s... [...]

Happy November, y'all. I've been listening to a whole lot of dub in relation to my thesis (remind me to talk about that sometime, it... [...]

Holy shit, this soundtrack fucking rules. I'm a huge Oingo Boingo fan, and all of Danny Elfman's creative chromaticism makes the tra... [...]

Every once in a while, whilst trawling the dark recesses of the internetz, I'll come across an album that'll make me go "how th... [...]

Comment with an album that should be up here that I've never fucking heard of. Include a description. The coolest sounding one (as decid... [...]

This is my favorite album by the criminally underrated instrumental psychedelic surf guitar group. Pioneers in using pedals and effects in t... [...]

The talented German pianist and harpsichordist explores Bach, Mozart, Salieri and Schubert among others, and his interpretations are rich an... [...]

this year has been pretty bad for music, no? some would disagree, i'm sure (plenty, even) but as of now it sucks. anyway, time to be sen... [...]

I love Bach, but there seems to be a constant assault on the man's music. I've heard countless lifeless performances and recordings ... [...]

This is the album that I can trace almost all of my favorite music back to ("back to which I can trace my favorite musics"? screw ... [...]