Essential Tremors

Ian MacKaye has exerted a profound influence on music over the past 35 years. He pioneered hardcore punk with Minor Thre... Read more

Guy Picciotto was a founding member of numerous DC bands of the 80's that made an impact on the direction of American ro... Read more

MC and producer JPEGMAFIA came out of Baltimore and exploded on the national rap landscape, not part of any particular m... Read more

Steve Reich long ago transcended the ----minimalist---- tag to stand as one of America's greatest and most influential l... Read more

Writer Hanif Abdurraqib has risen to prominence in recent years thanks to They Can't Kill Us Til They Kill Us, a collect... Read more

Deerhoof has become one of the country’s most unusual and prolific rock bands, and drummer Greg Saunier has been in the ... Read more

Susan Alcorn spent years playing her pedal-steel guitar in country bands across Texas. But she has also taken the instru... Read more

Colin Newman rewrote the rules of punk with London-based band Wire, and went on to push back the boundaries on creativit... Read more

Experimental composer Sarah Davachi has constructed her own soundworld out of sustained tones and drones, using instrume... Read more

Tim Kinsella has made at least two indelible marks on contemporary music—first as frontman of emo hingepoint Cap’n Jazz,... Read more

Emily Flake went from running her Lulu Eightball comic in altweeklies to drawing cartoons for The New Yorker and publish... Read more

Baltimore quartet Horse Lords have become an underground sensation on the back of their trance-inducing polyrhythmic roc... Read more

For 25 years, Mimi Parker’s minimalist drumming and angelic voice have helped provide the spine, and the soul, of Low, t... Read more

Marin Alsop has spent her life surrounded by music—as the child of professional musicians, as a violinist, and as the ac... Read more

Irmin Schmidt and his cohorts in the group Can not only formed one of the central pillars of so-called krautrock, they c... Read more

Though he emerged from Washington, D.C.’s post punk scene with the band Smart Went Crazy, Chad Clark has expanded his mu... Read more

Guitarist/keyboardist Ian Williams has blazed a unique path through underground music, with Don Caballero, Storm ---- St... Read more

Baltimore duo Wume draws on the motorik pulse and cosmic synths of vintage Krautrock, but update them with mesmerizing p... Read more

Robert Forster spent decades, off and on, as one of the singer/songwriters behind beloved Australian indie-pop band the ... Read more

Composer/multi-instrumentalist Jeff Parker is a prolific solo artist and a member of esteemed post-rock quintet Tortoise... Read more