This monumental recording is “Frustration,” the top side of a self-issued March 1967 single by Long Island garage band The Mystic Tide. Aesthetically, it wasn’t a one-off. Though an instrumental, its ...

Danny Elfman didn’t begin playing music until just after his 16th birthday — a date that he says “made me think I’d missed my chance and I was too old to pick up an instrument at all.” He wasn’t even ...

It’s a rarity that any band lasts ten years and remains interesting up to the end, much less a band of people who have played music together since the members were in middle school. Fissure Mystic ...