Before he started making elegantly catchy gothic drone-pop in Cold Cave, Wes Eisold led a very different sort of band: Boston hardcore bashers American Nightmare. (A legal issue eventually forced…   Read Story »

BTW Cold Cave played to a sweat-drenched capacity crowd at the Ukrainian Cultural Center for a show ending with Wes Eisold being pulled into the clamoring masses. Another BTW alumnus Austra seduced…   Read Story »

When posting Bermuda Drain's "A Meal Can Be Made" I spoke about how the nine songs on Prurient's new game-shifting album "construct an even darker, deeper, violent, emotionally charged edifice to…   Read Story »

Pitchfork Fest Friday inspired thoughts about the intimate and situational appeal of much of today's crop of independent artists, and the challenges inherent to translating that allure in sunny…   Read Story »

If you didn't know it before, Wes Eisold's recent Summer Mix should've clued you into the breadth of the Cold Cave leader's listening habits. His remix of Belle & Sebastian's "I Didn't See It…   Read Story »

Cold Cave band leader Wes Eisold explains: "On the last Cold Cave tour, a new friend gave me a mix cd and this is my return, though I wanted to share it with you too. Made with you in mind, Songs for…   Read Story »

Here's the sequel to last year's popular heartbreak of a mixtape, Cruel Summer. That one was worn, forlorn, and sexual, it was the soundtrack arc to your winter romance burning up and melting in the…   Read Story »

This Sebastian Mlynarski-directed, "You can go anywhere you want / but you're here"-themed video for Cherish The Light Years closer "Villains Of The Moon" mixes a shiny full-band performance of the…   Read Story »

Before Dominick Fernow joined Cold Cave, he'd already built a longstanding name for himself in underground noise as Prurient, black metal via his Ash Pool project, and both genres via his excellent…   Read Story »

Cherish The Light Years' second single, the romantic, guitar-lined male/female harmonized "Villains Of The Moon," is the perfect closer to an album that starts with an upswinging anthem like "The…   Read Story »