The oddly melodic drone band Emeralds announced their breakup earlier this year, but the band's members, including Mark McGuire, have always kept busy with extracurricular activities. And now McGuire…   Read Story »

In Tom's great Album Of The Week piece on Prince Rama's Top 10 Hits Of The End Of The World, he says that this concept album allowed the sisterly group to "start investigating pop ideas, but ... in…   Read Story »

While those of us on the East Coast prepare for weather-based apocalypse, here's something to keep us calm. Steve Hauschildt, a member of synth-drone all-stars Emeralds, has put together a…   Read Story »

Mark McGuire, guitarist for synth-droners Emeralds, has teamed up with Skaters' Spencer Clarke, recording under his Charles Berlitz pseudonym, to release a new album called Inner Tube, which is…   Read Story »

Emeralds' Steve Hauschildt makes dense, starry electronic music on his own and recently released a solo LP called Tragedy & Geometry on über-reputable experimental label Kranky. Download a couple of…   Read Story »

Not all of Stereogum's favorite sounds conform to what folks expect us to cover. In this space, resident Bananafish fetishist Brandon Stosuy focuses on bands, albums, singles, and villages in Sweden…   Read Story »