Volcano Radar was formed back in 2012 when Chicago-based guitarist, composer, eductor and poet Julia Miller found musical chemistry with a multi-instrumentalist and composer from Uruguay, Elbio Barilari. Two very outward thinking musicians who came together from decidedly different backgrounds to exploit some common ground in the playground of experimental,Read More

What do you get when you cross Captain Beefheart with Sun Ra, Negativland and the Residents? Hang on to your hats, the Craig Scott Lobotomy has arrived.

This ain’t pop music, ladies and gentleman. It’s a party of noise.

Here is a review of the Greg Ward/Caleb Willitz experimental Gaps & Space project ‘Synoptic Optiks.’ Once again, Greg Ward finds another way to defy not only expectations but discourage the very notion of setting expectations on him in the first place.

Here is a review of Andrew Drury’s fascinating floor-tom drum experimentations, ‘The Drum.’

A record that’s equally capable of enchanting you and pummeling you with many shades of aura in between, ‘Palo Colorado Dream’ catapults Anthony Pirog into the corps of elite experimental guitarists.

Form And Mess thrives on the extreme limits of rock and jazz.

Wow, has it really been eighteen years since Neneh Cherry last put out an album? Maybe that fact is easy to overlook since she got together with the Scandinavian free jazz trio The Thing just a couple of years ago You May Also Like: Ed Cherry – Soul Tree (2016)Read More

Electronic music as a whole is something I’ve found hard to embrace, although Squarepusher is one of those exceptions because there’s a jazz undercurrent in his type of circuit-bent music. You May Also Like: E3 by Alex Lakusta – ‘Transmit Slow’ (2022)

Longtime readers of SER, if such an animal even exists, know that some of us like to indulge in noisy, nonsensical and just plain weird-assed music. Once in a while, we’ll encounter something from the margins that’s so beyond the pale it makes even hardened avantists like us do aRead More