GUIDES

An Aspiring Nerd's Guide to the Beach Boys

Indie kids are insatiably obsessed and Paul McCartney once called Beach Boys mastermind Brian Wilson a "modern Stravinsky." Let's listen to four of his albums and see if we agree...

An Aspiring Nerd's Guide to Ambient

An electronic sub-genre too-often grouped with pastoral folks, new age and other, lackluster "background" electronics, ambient is better compared to the frenzy of air molecules streaking just below the surface of a pot at the brink of boil. The Beard offers full streams of 4 seminal albums to get you going...

An Aspiring Nerd Guide to Tropicália

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An Aspiring Nerd's Guide to No Wave

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A Velvet Underground Family Tree

Glam, punk, metal, noise and the avant garde -- all owe a major part of their sound to the Velvet Underground's influence, making this family tree a weird, wide and eclectic one...

Minimal Techno 101

Minimal is a misnomer in the face of such articulate imagination. A sparring, if not sparse, strain of techno, the key here is listening to what isn't as closely as what is...