A few days late but stacked with excellence, here is your collection of May's absolute jams. For optimal ease of consumption, you'll find it here in three forms: a 12-track downloadable zip of the…   Read Story »

Ambient guitarist Mark McGuire (of Emeralds) has a deep catalog of innovative, expansive music; it can be hard to keep up with his prolific output, which sees release through a variety of…   Read Story »

The oddly melodic drone band Emeralds announced their breakup earlier this year, but the band's members, including Mark McGuire, have always kept busy with extracurricular activities. And now McGuire…   Read Story »

In Tom's great Album Of The Week piece on Prince Rama's Top 10 Hits Of The End Of The World, he says that this concept album allowed the sisterly group to "start investigating pop ideas, but ... in…   Read Story »

Mark McGuire, guitarist for synth-droners Emeralds, has teamed up with Skaters' Spencer Clarke, recording under his Charles Berlitz pseudonym, to release a new album called Inner Tube, which is…   Read Story »

This weekend in Las Vegas, Matador Records is celebrating 21 years of shaping the ship of independent music with a fearsome deepdive through its roster, headlined by the reunited "classic" lineup of…   Read Story »