Torrents Music

The 2008 CMJ Music Marathon lineup has been anounced: 3OH!3, A Place to Bury Strangers, Aa, Adept Aggrolites, AIDS Wolf Albertans, Amazing Baby Ambulance Ltd, An Albatross Ane Brun, Anna Ternheim Annuals, Anthony Green Arbouretum, Ariel Pink and Geneva Jacuzzi, Bailiff, Beach House, Benji Cossa, Black Hollies, Black Taxi, BM Linx, Bonne Aparte....

Lain Carney of new Thrill Jockey signees Pontiak talks about their new LP with Arbouretum, recording in farm country, and his favorite local bands.

Califone! Arbouretum! Trans Am! The Furnaces! The Sea! The Cake! Happy Birthday Thrill Jockey! Read on for a review of the anniversary concert.

What did the likes of Joanna Newsom, Robert Plant, Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks, Vetiver, Devendra Banhart, Bill Callahan, Tunng, Dead Meadow, Arbouretum, Six Organs Of Admittance, James Yorkston and the Earlies get upto this weekend? For a review of their somewhat mud-splattered festival sets, read on..

A new genre has officially been coined. It's called "Dream Rock", and you won't quite understand it until you listen to this week's Badical Find, a band called Thrushes from Baltimore. You can hear hints of Dream Rock (also known as Dream-Core) in a few other Baltimore-based bands like Beach House and Arbouretum. Drenched in reverb, these...