Rock
Reviews of the latest music from Dean Blunt, Aaron Dilloway, Ulver, Perhaps, Wormlust, and Syndrome.
[Updated.] Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, theater, and film that’s coming up this week.
In Hesitation Marks, Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor foregoes trendy flourishes. He might have delivered a set of competently-made, stripped-back industrial tunes. But the end result is monotony.
Weirdly paradoxical as the description may be, “bummer pop” is the best way to characterize the breezy half hour’s worth of music in Porches’ new album.
The third and latest LP from indie singer-songwriter and composer Julia Holter proffers a vision of urban ecstasy.
Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, theater, and film that’s coming up this week.
There’s a festival just about every weekend, it seems. The newest is The Nines Festival.
The latest LP from the dream pop band Candy Claws turns out to be its most profound and impressive statement to date.
Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, theater, visual arts, and film that’s coming up this week.

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