As neatly curated and captivatingly esoteric as his accomplished production design work for some of New York’s most fashionable ...
Following in the recent rock-meets-pop footsteps of Slothrust’s subversive and unexpected 2023 rework of Ginuwine’s sleazy soaker ...
Photo by Sarah Hesky
Riding high on the release of their rock-solid debut EP, Versions Of You, Alt Citizen caught up with Los Angeles ...
Photos by Damien Gordon-Sekera
Taking a moment in the cathartic space after the release of their sophomore LP, Earthly Delights, and ...
Photo by Tom van Huisstede
When your band name goes as hard as Iguana Death Cult you’d better damn well have the chops to back it ...
Death Valley Girls have built a reputation on the power of community, from their earliest leather studded girl-gang stylings to ...
Photo by Kelsey Wagner
SHYBABY returns with another massive, hyperkinetic wall of noise blending fast and furious punk with ...
Everybody loves a good joke. The comedian, the class clown, the comic relief are critically important and revered characters that lift ...
Photo by Kitty Handley
Like a fatalist combination of Dry Cleaning’s cynically deadpan poetry and the melodic magnetism of the xx, ...
If any criticism could be levied against White Reaper it’s that the band is consistent, nearly to a fault. Three LPs of ...
Album artwork by Tom Keelan
Party planner and prolific podcaster, Curtis Everett Pawley is adding another feather to his already ...
Photo by Alec Castillo
Leaving home to follow one’s dreams is a difficult and common first step on life’s journey into ...
Sloth is one of the seven deadly sins, perhaps the most deadly, as the slippery slope of laziness represents a slow deterioration of ...
Photo by Kevin Condon
Big Bliss return with the first single since the release of their lauded 2018 album, At Middle Distance, at a ...
Photos by Lucy Blumenfield
In 2016 The Kills were touring in support of their recently released fifth studio album, Ash & Ice, ...
There’s a very specific brand of indie rock that specializes in the kind of big-sky anthems that stretch across the various seasons ...
Shoegaze is most effective when adhering closely to the tenets of punk’s influence on the style, enveloping short compositions in ...
Photo by Jack Moran
At long last, The Lazy Eyes’ debut LP has arrived! The ramp up to Songbook has been strong and steady, ...
Dance remixes of rock tunes used to be fairly common around the turn of the millennium, breaking down the boundaries of the ...
Photo by Olivia Brissett
Pop songstress Tiarlie made a splash with her striking debut single, “Table Bitch,” a noir slow burn ...
The stage lights of Coachella may have been 135 miles away but they didn’t shine nearly as brightly as those at The Echo in Los ...
Photo by Marlon Garcia
Atlanta punks Upchuck have been causing a ruckus on the heels of their deliriously noisy debut EP and brawny ...
Presented as a concept album in three acts, Pleasure Craft’s debut LP Walls, Mirrors, and Windows taps directly into peak-industrial ...
Celebrating the unmitigated positivity of Death Valley Girls’ empowerment anthems is a new split 7” that teams the band up ...
Operating from a different angle than the shadowy psych-doom project Stonefield where she holds down the low-end, Holly Findlay used ...
Photo by Julia Koza
Having been already established as a scion of the underground with the blisteringly realized shoegaze of 2020’s ...
Toronto’s Pleasure Craft have been steadily building momentum with a string of singles and EPs that highlight the skillful ...
There are very few things as immediately gratifying as the 3am New York Slice. Hot and greasy, served up on a semi-translucent paper ...
Art by Kealan Shilling
If the French are known for anything it’s a staunch refusal to be restrained by convention of any kind, be ...
Photo by The Little Ghost/Kelsey Hart
Death Valley Girls’ latest release is saturated in psychedelic nostalgia and brimming with ...
The Coathangers and L.A. Witch are two of modern alternative rock’s most exciting bands, consistently pushing the envelope in ...
Photo by Charlie Boss
Indigo De Souza’s sophomore album Any Shape You Take is a breakthrough release for the indie ...
Photo by Julie Hill
After over a year of reclusive hibernation, psychonauts Mary Vision emerge from their slumber with another heady ...
Indie rock is an amorphous concept, a descriptive label that casts a wide net over a vast expanse of sounds in an attempt to ...
Photo by Ammo Bankoff
Positioned smack in the middle of Death Valley Girls’ luminous 2016 sophomore LP, Glow In The Dark, “I’m ...
It’s remarkable how quickly The Lazy Eyes have accumulated acclaim since releasing their first EP in mid-2020, like a tiny snowball ...
Early in his career, writer-philosopher Aldous Huxley wrote, “Perhaps it’s good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if ...
live photos by Steph Port
“Look to your left, look to your right. We’re all friends.”
As the sun set the stage at ...
Chemistry is the process of achieving a desired result through measured combining of unique elements and rigorous testing. The right ...
Photo by Devon Bristol Shaw
Sarah Greenwell’s solo project, Greeensleeves, charts a different course from her rambunctious output ...
Wolf Alice’s steady development from folk leaning acoustic project to full blown indie rock powerhouse has reached critical mass ...
Ancient Christians used the symbol of Ichthys, a fish-like shape comprised of a pair of inverted arches commonly found adorning the ...
Photo by Drake Li
Tackling heady topics in musical four-minute treatises is a hallmark of a certain school of independent music, and ...
Lunatic House, the third album from Seattle’s Spirit Award forms the culmination of a trilogy of crunchy and fuzzed out albums that ...
Alan Vega built a career on the fringes, a cultural blade runner perpetually on the bleeding edge of conceptual art who kicked down ...
Before YouTube, before Twitch streams and Facebook live, bands would take their shows to the visual airwaves on public access ...
“Where’s My Brain???” is 6-and-a-half minutes of largely instrumental motorik-powered psych that ebbs and flows with an organic ...
Photos by Kelsey Hart
The siren song of the open road has long beckoned generations of wild spirits to tear across the vast expanses ...
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Originally released earlier this year as an exceptionally polished demo, Rodes Rollin’s “Isolation” was ...
Photo by Little Ghost
The cult of celebrity never seems to lack in willing initiates, forking over sizeable portions of their cash ...