The sweat’s the first thing everyone notices. It’s hard not to, as salty trails drip from the pores of Joseph D’Agostino, the yelping, riff-raking frontman of Cymbals Eat Guitars. Here’s why he can’t seem to stay dry: Pitchfork’s ’Best New Music… (Read More)

Bear in Heaven have trapped echos, tremors, winds, and fading light. Theyve redefined time, and folded it. Theyve unbuttoned sound, and realigned it. Within four walls in Brooklyn, Jon Philpot, Adam Wills, Sadek Bazaara, and Joe Stickney mined the democracy of… (Read More)

Freelance Whales found one another in late 2008, in Queens, amidst a strange amalgam of unfamiliar instruments, and precariously arranged pop songs. Using whatever musical gadgets they happened upon (mostly harmonium, banjo, glockenspiel, synthesizers, guitars, bass, drums, waterphone), the five members… (Read More)