electronica Archive
22 Nov 2025
Album Review: Older Future – The Captains
Older Future is the name that Alon Yish uses for his electronic music project. The Israeli musician (and synth designer) employs an array of electronic instruments/devices to create the rich […]
22 Sep 2025
The Indoor Astronomy of Astronomía Interior
This feature appeared previously in SPIN Magazine. “We agreed not to make another rock and roll band,” laughs Ángel Mosqueda. Good thing, because he and Jesús Baez are already in […]
21 Jul 2025
Album Review: Sendelica – The Complete Mankind
Here’s something different. A band most have never heard of, based in Wales, with shifting personnel built around two or three main players, and with an extensive catalog. They release […]
31 May 2025
EP Review: Pol Sembrano – Anywhere
Some years ago, there was a recurring sketch on Saturday Night Live featuring two dudes in the then-modern-day equivalent of sharkskin suits, clubbing in NYC. They even made a movie […]
16 May 2025
Album Review: Los Microwaves – What’s That Got to Do (With Loving You)
For every major-label act that made interesting music in the ‘80s (and likely in every other era as well), countless artists and groups toiled in relative obscurity, doing work every […]
15 Apr 2025
30 Days Out, April 2025 #2: La Luz, Bonnie Raitt, Empire Strikes Brass, Badbadnotgood
Happy Tax Day! Go see some live music. If you please, here are a few really, really good suggestions. The Ramones sang “New York City really has it all,” but […]
21 Feb 2025
Album Review: Trees Speak — Mind Maze
As I mentioned in a recent review, Mind Maze, the 2023 album by Arizona-based instrumental band Trees Speak slipped by without my notice. And as I’ve emphasized on many occasions, […]
13 Jan 2025
Album Review: def.fo – Music for Dinosaurs
When we last checked in with def.fo – the nom de rock of England’s Tom Powell – the music being made on Eternity was a kind of modern-day psychedelia. And […]
02 Jan 2025
Album Reviews: Three from Hyperspace Communicaitons
I first encountered David Javelosa while working on my second book, Disturbing the Peace: 415 Records and the Rise of New Wave. Javelosa had been a prime mover of Baby […]
13 Dec 2024
Album Review: Trees Speak – Timefold
As I’ve observed before, Tucson, Arizona isn’t the first place one would look for krautrock. But in 2024, it may well be the best place. As Trees Speak, Daniel Martin […]