“Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.” So goes the saying that means it can be difficult to explain music using words. Despite that, let’s put on our dancing shoes and try to define ...

Matron has been calling its Saturn Bar show on Thursday, April 3, the farewell show. It’s a chance for the New Orleans math rock/art pop band, which hasn’t played a show of original material in around ...

SA Vibes is a KSAT project that features local musicians performing live songs. SAN ANTONIO – In a city better known for Tejano rhythms and country twang, San Antonio’s Roshii is busy proving that ...

For those that don’t know ― which is most of us, so don’t worry ― there is a subgenre of rock music called Math Rock. Although it has nothing to do with equations or factoring, it does take ...

Connecticut’s The Most are an impossible-to-pin-down band who mix the chaotic math rock of early Maps & Atlases with Animal Collective/Dirty Projectors style art rock and top it off with jazzy horns, ...

Charlie Parr photographed through the glass at Duluth Cider for a virtual performance. He's part of the lineup in this year's Homegrown Music Festival in Duluth, Minn.

Choke Artist is a NJ-based independent label that focuses heavily on math rock (but puts out plenty of other types of music too), and they’re gearing up to put out a benefit compilation, Your Breath ...

Since Amplifier debuted in 2018, we’ve had the pleasure of featuring a wide variety of rock artists on this podcast: alt rock, indie rock, psych rock, punk rock, pop rock. But today's episode marks a ...

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Estragon's opening line from Waiting for Godot has been spooling around like a tape loop, decaying yet cacophonous, in my head all week. Revisiting a dog-eared copy from high school, Samuel Beckett's ...

In 2025, rock was still hanging in. As artificial intelligence infiltrates music, the genre’s handmade imperfections are more ...