“Many found the music offensive, the dancing objectionable, and the popularity of both with young people verging on a mental health crisis.” So writes music historian Susan C. Cook about ragtime, the heavily syncopated ancestor of jazz that arose in the late 1800s. Like all things, ragtime’s subversiveness faded over time, and, a century later, the works of Scott Joplin and other practitioners had been relegated to carnivals and fairs, their jaunty piano melodies now evoking quaint notions of old-timey fun. On their debut album Euphonic Sounds, Los Angeles duo Ragger — Marc Riordan and Jon Leland — aim to recapture some of ragtime’s original spark while giving it a relatively modern edge.
Ragger’s basic idea — ragtime compositions…
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In the world of electronic pop, 
There isn’t a shortage of post-punk-leaning indie bands coming out of Ireland – whether it’s Fontaines or The Murder Capital, or, more recently, Basht or Gurriers. Cork-based 
Although they dropped the Cascading Moms moniker from the release this time around, Hungry Animal returns the 
On their previous album, 2022’s Solidaritine, 
Through their first three albums, 
Singer-songwriter, drummer and multi-instrumentalist 
…This expanded reissue adds 8 songs recorded at Inner Ear Studios in Arlington, VA, a few months after the album sessions. These sessions provided playfully experimental B sides to the album’s singles, two cover songs (the New Order cover “Your Silent Face,” and a Beach Boys cover) for a single on Merge Records, and a compilation track.
According to Sam Bielanski, frontwoman of Toronto indie-pop duo 
Have you ever wondered what would have happened if Lou Reed became interested in Americana and recorded with Gram Parsons? Well, if that unlikely combination seems intriguing, then The Nude Party’s Look Who’s Back is for you.
Twelve years have passed since we heard from Howling Bells – a lifetime in pop music, let alone in the world. The band, having toured themselves into the ground, took a self-enforced break after the release of Heartstrings in 2014, and this marks their first music together since that decision. Singer 
The cover of 
For the front cover of his fifth solo album for Home Normal, 
Contemporary composers working with just intonation tend to have an affinity for early music, when Pythagorean tuning was mainstream and before equal temperament became the standard. 
Back in the early nineties, when Kevin Shields and My Bloody Valentine came up with their Loveless album, they practically broke the back of Creation Records, which soon after went bankrupt. Yet, nobody at the time envisioned what kind of influence that album would have decades after its initial release.
Backtracking a bit from previously issued volumes of the series, 
The music of