Oklahoma City’s underground and lauded sludge rock and metal quartet Chat Pile and Texan ambient and folk guitarist Hayden Pedigo could answer that question if it ever crossed your mind. Despite ...

A lifelong North Caroliner, Marlin took an initial fascination to music with the purchase of his first guitar at age 14 in ...

The ambient Nordic folk band is known to use traditional instruments in its trance-like music. Credit: Wikimedia Commons / S. Bollmann Dark Norwegian folk band Wardruna will sail into San Antonio this ...

“IT’S NOT A SATANIC thing, it’s a nationalist heathen thing,” or so says Varg Qisling Larssn Vikernes, a.k.a Count Grishnackh, a.k.a. Burzum, one of the most notorious figures of the Scandinavian ...

When Jack Parker (McCormick ’23) and Cora Pancoast (McCormick ’23) DJed together as juniors at Northwestern’s studio radio station WNUR, they had disparate tastes in music. Parker wanted to play ...

Fort Collins singer-songwriter Corey Wright began releasing music as weareforests last year. He shared his debut album, "Part, Parcel," in July and the "Liturgy" EP just a few months later. His music ...

San Diego-born, Los Angeles-based artist Lecx Stacy has crafted a seasonal soundscape unfamiliar to anything you’ve heard ...

Maria BC’s music is magnetic — simple, sparse, and hard to pull away from. The ambient-folk artist makes songs for quiet contemplation, songs that course with longing and ache with regret and stretch ...

After the loss of her closest collaborator, the singer-songwriter paused but didn’t retreat. “The Greater Wings,” the follow-up to her 2017 breakthrough, is due Friday. By Quinn Moreland “I’m not ...

Sound Check is the Globe’s weekly guide to concerts, tunes, and trends rooted in Boston and beyond. This column covers August 15-21. If you’re going to make noise about gender inequity in the arts, ...