Björk Guðmundsdóttir, venerable musician and early tech adopter – app impresario, VR utopian, entire chunk of MoMA real estate – has become, like so many of us, a podcaster. Specifically, on Sept. 1, she launched a series called Sonic Symbolism. Each episode consists of 40 minutes-ish of Björk playing, then explicating, one album from he...

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Early in 2020, the young hardcore band Excide, whose members come from both North and South Carolina, released an excellent debut album called Two Of A Kind. That EP had the misfortune to arrive just a couple of months before the pandemic, so Excide didn’t really catch a whole lot of momentum from it. But Excide hung on, and they&#...

Watain’s Erik Danielsson has lived by black metal’s rulebook for almost 30 years – and he’ll carry on doing so until he dies

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