New music and a new side project from Vukari, crowdfunding for a documentary on Ella Jenkins, and more
by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
As so often happens, it was Reader critic Monica Kendrick who got this wolf hooked on local atmospheric black-metal band Vukari, writing about their "eerie beauty" and "unrelenting horror" in a concert preview last year. In late July, Vukari posted on Bandcamp a tasty new four-song EP, En to Pan, that blends symphonic postrock sweep and desperate banshee wailing.…[ Read more ]