Alarm Magazine

Located in Tokyo’s Harajuku district, home of Japanese fashion, Design Festa Gallery East and West is unlike any art gallery you’ve seen before. Th...

Felt: 3: A Tribute to Rosie Perez (Rhymesayers) Living Legends‘ MURS and Atmosphere’s Slug are two stylized MCs who are best known for their regular gigs. Ho...

Painting Today Tony Godfrey, Phaidon Press, $75, 448 pages, Hardcover Every painting student within the last forty years has been told painting is dead. But we continue to surround ourselves with paintings, to visit museums and galleries, and to read books filled with images of paintings...

Earlier this year, David Bazan was touring the country’s living rooms, playing solo acoustic shows at houses leading up to his first LP under his own name, Curse Your Branches (Barsuk). Cut to ten months later and Bazan has just wrapped a full band tour in support of his now released LP. ...

Mike Williams, vocalist for Eyehategod, and author of Cancer As A Social Activity: Affirmations Of World’s End, released a 7″ this week via Chrome Peeler Records. Th...

Rainbow Coloured Tears of a Clown, a new exhibition by street artist Nomad, is currently on display until January 9 at The Circleculture Gallery in Berlin, Germany...

Coalesce: OXEP (Relapse) In July, Kansas City math-groove merchants Coalesce completed an impeccable decade-long comeback...

Featuring performances from NOFX, Wax, Dead to Me, and Nathan Maxwell & the Original Bunny Gang, the fourth annual Rock to Roll Charity Event, spearheaded by SideOneDummy co-founder Joe Sib, promises a great time while raising money for a great cause...

Entering Santos Party House, I could already hear Harlem’s guitars, even if I couldn’t see them. Their distorted vocals welcomed in the first night of CMJ. Santos Party House is a huge new place that’s been collecting plaudits at every turn since its opening last summer. The ...

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Montreal-based producer Tor has released Illinoize, a remix album comprised ofsamples of Sufjan Stevens songs along withMC’s Aesop Rock, Big Daddy Kane, Gift of Gab (Blackalicious), C.L. Smooth, Outkast, Brother Ali, and Grand Puba. ...

On January 26 Spoon will be releasing Transference, their first record in nearly three years, which features eleven new songs that honors the Spoon tradition while also expanding the band’s sound further. ...

Check out Kevin Flynn and the Avondale Ramblers at the Abbey Pub on Thursday, November 5, as the finale of the Chicago installment of Magner’s Irish Sessions. ...