E's back with a new self-produced album next week. We've been making some noise about it -- it's his best since Daisies. "End Times" is the track that gives the collection its name, a three-minute distillation of the record's sublime despondence. It's stripped and raw -- just a scraggly weatherbeaten voice, a guitar, and the faint hum of a Rhode...

When it comes to understanding techno-philic artists like the Field aka Axel Willner, process is, if not paramount, a fascinating and at least illuminating entry point. Are we listening to de novo digital sounds laboriously created by hand, live performance/pre-existing samples, or in the Field's case, microsamples? On his debut album, 2007's Fr...

Whether you know them or not, or like them or not, no one can deny the sublime genius slash insanity of this video. The band are cuurently on tour in the UK supporting Propagandhi, check out dates at their MySpace page, but in the meantime check out there video for ...

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Reuters - A Los Angeles judge has shut down an effort by former members of the ska-punk band Sublime to perform under the name.