Marc Masters
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Like the Velvet Underground before them, Kilgour and The Clean inspired tons of musicians to embrace impulsive creativity. -
With seven tracks stretched across 75 minutes and four LP sides, The Morning Star is the acoustic guitarist's most ambitious effort so far. -
Featuring former Stereolab members, the trio unfurls instrumental loops that build to ecstatic hypnosis.
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Developed as a multimedia project for the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Mind Over Mirrors' Jamie Fennelly creates a widescreen aura for Bellowing Sun. -
Bertucci unleashes a cascade of overlapping saxophone lines, with each small repetition spawning a new wave of curling, blending sounds. -
Fred Thomas, plus members of Tyvek and the Gories, join the garage-rock band for one of Ian Svenonius' rawest albums to date, Experimental Music. -
Reese McHenry's got a voice like a preacher turning a standard sermon into a cathartic epiphany. She's joined by fellow North Carolina garage-rockers Spider Bags for a collaborative album. -
The Atlanta trio's first single from Multi-task is built around twitchy, start-stop beats that instantly get pulses rushing and nerves tingling. -
A new compilation spans Scott's innovations in electronic music from 1961 through 1971, including a cartoonishly joyful "ballet" that whirs away like overcharged robots. -
Orcutt's guitar playing scrambles conventional logic, but his take on the song from the 1927 musical Show Boat might be one of his gentlest tracks ever.
