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Klipsch, Altec Lansing, JBL, Advent, Acoustic Research, and more classics that won’t bust your budget. A great stereo system, the saying goes, is only as good as its […]
Klipsch, Altec Lansing, JBL, Advent, Acoustic Research, and more classics that won’t bust your budget. A great stereo system, the saying goes, is only as good as its […]
Part 3 of our series highlighting hidden gems from your local record store’s bargain bin. In the record collecting community, there’s an idea that to build a great […]
Synthesized Satie for home listening, the dance floor, and beyond. You’ve heard groundbreaking French composer Erik Satie’s slow, existential sounding pieces in numerous films, shows, animations, and documentaries. […]
A few selections from our favorite online archive of art, music, film, and all things esoteric. Though you’ve likely stumbled across a post or two from UbuWeb during […]
Nearing the holidays with more great new music from the UK, France, Switzerland, and Bay Area. Each week the global listening community gets bombarded with new releases, reissues […]
Music from the 12th Isle via Glasgow’s underground. Glasgow’s 12th Isle has been steadily releasing some of our favorite genre-bending electronic works since 2016. The label takes a […]
ISC sits down with Condesa Electronics founder Mehdi El-Aquil to talk mixers, how Condesa came to be, and the future of rotaries. Based in Adelaide, Australia, Condesa Electronics in […]
Andy Beta interviews Brazilian singer/composer Priscilla Ermel. “Dear Mr. Eno, I would like you to know about our work, we work with tapes and sounds of Nature.” So […]
New reissue label Naya Beat focuses on uncovering rarities and oddities from the subcontinent and South Asian diaspora. Co-founder Ragz shares five picks from his collection. Raghav Mani, […]
In conversation with Justin Gage, founder of the long-running, eclectic audio journal Aquarium Drunkard. For the past 15 years, Aquarium Drunkard has provided a home for music heads […]
Fish scales. Video Stores. Jazz. The multi-layered world of Munich-based label Squama Recordings. Martin Brugger is a producer and bass player for the modern jazz quintet Fazer. Max […]
“My Definition Of Techno House Is A Shrimp.” Earlier this year, German electronic label Transmigration released the much anticipated Space Teddy Collection, a 2xLP compilation of tracks from […]
Remastered footage “Lonesome Tonight” and “Blue Monday” performed live at the Haçienda. About three years after their singer Ian Curtis killed himself on the eve of Joy Division’s […]
Experience the storied collaboration between Joe Hisaishi and Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli in one brilliant two-hour performance. The In Sheep’s Clothing’s residency at Neuehouse is coming to a […]
ISC closes its first week of September programing with a deep dive into the music of Arther Russell. The In Sheep’s Clothing Residency at Neuehouse Hollywood is nearing […]
The team behind In Sheep’s Clothing is very much looking forward to hosting a night of music tomorrow from English-Nigerian chanteuse Sade. “Make Some Room” bookends the second […]
One of the only live performances of Schoener’s much beloved Gamelan fusion record, Bali-Agúng. Eberhard Schoener has made his name as a German pioneer who bridged classical music […]
“Like the last embers of a fire burning” Our friends at Motion Ward have announced their final release of the year with a “CD of dimly lit tunes […]
The two-day celebration includes a film screening, panel discussion, and musical performance. In 2017 David Byrne’s Luaka Bop label released an album of Alice Coltrane’s music recorded with […]
Join the crew behind Discostan at 2220 Arts for the first Los Angeles theatrical screening of ‘Showgirls of Pakistan’. If you’ve been following along, you may remember Discostan […]
McIntosh announces an updated version of their classic power amp. More than 50 years ago, the hi-fi magazine Stereo Review opened its assessment of the then-new McIntosh MC-3500 […]
The Promises saga continues with new behind the scenes footage released by Luaka Bop. From the very first notes of Promises, it’s clear that something magical is about […]
The ensemble formed by jazz legend Horace Tapscott performs this Saturday, October 23, at the World Stage in Leimert Park. Horace Tapscott’s Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra performs live […]
