April 14, 2023 at 10:06 am
Frost Children (supposedly) reel it in on SPEED RUN, a 200mph album
Photo by Lauren Davis
“It’s Frost Children’s world and we’re just living in it” — a claim boldly stated by the ...
January 2, 2023 at 12:00 pm
FIDLAR’s pit is lawless in this new Wild West of rock music
FIDLAR seemed from the outside to be kind of indefinitely gone for a while. But according to Zach Carper, “It didn’t feel like ...
October 26, 2022 at 12:00 pm
Yard Act think the future is one that reminds us that we should have a good time
When I asked James Smith, lyricist and lead singer of Yard Act what kind of “mad shit happens when you do art” other than ...
August 26, 2022 at 12:00 pm
FIDLAR return with grimy, loud-louder-loud “FSU”
Photo by Alice Baxley
FIDLAR are back, and it’s grimy as ever.
“FSU” – for Fuck Shit Up – is so ...
April 8, 2022 at 10:00 am
Faux Real won SXSW 2022 & ‘only believes in the afterparty’
Photos by Miriam Marlene, find more of her work on Instagram
Faux Real have been around for a minute, starting off a couple of years ...
January 5, 2022 at 12:00 pm
Turnstile’s Tiny Desk (at home) is meant to manipulate what things can or should be
Turnstile’s having their deserved, long-time-coming moment with GLOW ON, making an NPR Tiny Desk (at home) pretty much ...
November 5, 2021 at 9:00 am
Firetalk Records showcase @ Baby’s: Mamalarky, Packs, Wombo
Firetalk Records is responsible for some of the most incredibly loveable music that came out of 2020/2021. All of their artists are ...
October 22, 2021 at 9:00 am
We finally saw Dehd at Brooklyn Made
With Dehd’s Flower of Devotion coming out mid-pandemic, we had to wait a waaay-too-long time to see them live. But it finally ...
September 2, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Geese is worth the buzz, and they want to confuse you a little: Live at Elsewhere
You know how geese (like the bird) seem like they’re pretty cute and fine and not dangerous until you get too close and they ...
August 3, 2021 at 9:00 am
Mamalarky’s first release since their 2020 full length debut: double single “Meadow” & “Moss”
Photo by Faye Webster
Mamalarky’s self-titled debut out last November was an overwhelming swell of musical tact & dexterity ...
July 27, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Welcome to Leo season: burn it down
B-word, it’s Leo season!! Be louder, be more ridiculous, tease your hair, love harder. Leo’s ruled by the motherf*cking ...
July 2, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Video Premiere: Acid Tongue celebrates the apocalypse in ‘Rock ‘N Roll Revelations’
Photo by Chase Hart
If you ever thought, “why not put some dancing rats on an atomic bomb,” then you and Acid Tongue are ...
June 24, 2021 at 11:00 am
Welcome to Cancer season: Wet Hot American Summer
Cancer season started on June 21st and we’ll be here until July 22. You’ve probably already felt a huge shift in energy ...
June 2, 2021 at 11:49 am
King Woman’s “Morning Star” is simple, hellish, and effective
King Woman, aka Kris Esfandiari, returns with a grimly elated video for “Morning Star” as a taste for what’s to ...
May 27, 2021 at 9:00 am
Welcome to Gemini season: Play/Destroy
Gemini season (May 21 – June 20) is upon us, with the full lunar eclipse just this past Wednesday early morning to boot. This ...
April 29, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Welcome to Taurus season: luxury, baby
Tauruses are good at a lot of things, but they’re best at luxuriating. This Taurus season (appropriately beginning this past ...
April 6, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Premiere: MONSTERWATCH return with ‘Lick The Wall”
It’s been a minute since Seattle-based MONSTERWATCH released their EP Z O T (in 2018), but they’ve come back with a ...
March 26, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Welcome to Aries season: hard-headed but squishy on the inside
Aries season, March 20-April 19, marks the start of the zodiac calendar. It’s fresh, it’s Spring, it feels like we might ...
March 1, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Welome to Pisces season: swimming in calm
It’s always around Pisces season (February 18-March 20), the last bit of winter, where I start to get really reflective about ...
February 16, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Mush’s ‘Lines Redacted’ walks us through an apocalypse like a David Lynch film
Mush’s second album, Lines Redacted (out this past Friday, Feb 12 via Memphis Industries), came in quick succession to their ...
February 10, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Premiere: ‘Alpha’, the first of Little Bird’s three-part saga ‘Proxima’
The first of a three-part, 23-song saga from Charleston’s Little Bird, Alpha, is a little bit jam band, a little bit jazz, a ...
January 27, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Welcome to Aquarius season: keep it weird
We’re about a week or so into Aqua season, and to all the aquarian aliens out there, I just wanna say I love y’all. ...
January 14, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Aerial East finds beauty through happenstance
Featured image by Luca Veneter, additional photos by Allen Ying
Aerial East, an NYC-residing artist, is a very serious person. That ...
January 8, 2021 at 12:00 pm
“If it was purely serious it would be a wank, if it were purely fun it would be meaningless.” A look inside a fake cult
With the way things are going I, more often than I’d ever thought I would be, find myself thinking about cults; what it takes to ...
January 6, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Welcome to Capricorn Season: Connect with intention
Capricorn is, as far as my experience goes, the most forgotten zodiac. Their level-headedness and steadfastness as the earthiest earth ...
January 4, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Zine preview: Dehd
Designed by Lucas Long. Photo by Alexa Viscius, courtesy of Dehd
Listening through Dehd’s Flower of Devotion for the first time ...
December 3, 2020 at 12:00 pm
Welcome to Sagittarius season: content to keep searching
Saggitarius Szn started last Saturday the 22nd, and ends right before Christmas on the 21st of December. Welcome!
When I think of Sags ...
November 20, 2020 at 12:00 pm
Mamalarky’s self-titled debut LP, self-prescribed quarantine dancing, and loving over time
You put on any Mamalarky song and you instantly know it’s gonna be good. It’s easy to listen to but not for any lack of ...
November 18, 2020 at 12:00 pm
Mush preps for Armageddon with “Blunt Instruments”
Photo by James Brown
Earlier this year Mush hit us with 3D Routine, an incredibly optimistic album super-packed with playfulness and ...
November 13, 2020 at 12:30 pm
Mortality’s a given: Working Men’s Club’s ‘John Cooper Clark’
It’s Friday y’all. We can’t really dance with each other, but this Working Men’s Club vid for “John ...
November 2, 2020 at 12:00 pm
Welcome to Scorpio Season: defy and evolve with certitude
First off, I need to apologize to all the Libras. I skipped you. Life happened, but I love you. You probably didn’t need anyone ...
October 23, 2020 at 12:00 pm
Native Sun’s “Government Shutdown” is gratifyingly bashing and brutal
Photo by Jessica Gurewitz
Before… all of this — all of everything, you know what I mean — Native Sun were catching up on ...
October 12, 2020 at 12:00 pm
Debut novel ‘Little Scratch’ by Rebecca Watson is like VR for books
I couldn’t tell you the last time I got absolutely dragged into a book. Little Scratch, the debut novel from Rebecca Watson, ...
October 8, 2020 at 12:00 pm
Something to look forward to: Slow Pulp’s ‘Moveys’
Lately, it’s felt like there’s not a whole lot to look forward to. I don’t have tickets to see a show until October ...
September 22, 2020 at 12:00 pm
Max Kuehn of FIDLAR releases brit-pop-and-Beta-Band-fueled ‘Modern World’
If you’ve heard Modern World by now, it’s highly likely that it’s because you know Max Kuehn as the drummer from ...
September 17, 2020 at 10:00 am
Premiere: Foreign Air gives us an electro-pop spaghetti western with “Ultra Mega Love”
Foreign Air is giving us a taste of their debut album Good Morning Stranger, out October 16, with “Ultra Mega Love.” ...
September 11, 2020 at 12:00 pm
Extra Special’s debut single “True Fear” gets way too high
Photo by Michelle Lobianco
Amelia Bushell (Grim Streaker, Belle Mare) spent her quarantine bringing her new project, Extra Special, ...
September 9, 2020 at 3:00 pm
Joe Keery’s solo project Djo asks you to Keep Your Head Up
If there was a 30 under 30 list that didn’t only glorify digital marketing for capital gains or whatever, Joe Keery might be ...
September 1, 2020 at 12:00 pm
Decolonise Fest will create space for punx of color online this year
With real-life, in-person festivals still indefinitely canceled, organizers are coming to these new terms and switching to online ...
August 27, 2020 at 12:00 pm
Lola Pistola’s Lizard EP is precisely and wildly felt
Lola Pistola’s Lizard EP, out today, is the first thing since quarantine that really brought longing for live music back for ...
August 25, 2020 at 3:00 pm
Welcome to Virgo Season: rigorous love
Virgo Season officially began this past Saturday and we’ll be here until September 22. Get ready for the energy of their ...
August 11, 2020 at 12:00 pm
Pure Adult’s “Mise En Scène” video makes its own reality
Pure Adult (Bianca Abarca and Jeremy Snyder) were just beginning to ramp up some real Brooklyn hype right before the world kinda ...
August 7, 2020 at 12:00 pm
Loyal Lobos’ ‘Everlasting’ is a rebellion against sexual trauma and cultural expectations
Photo by Diego-Trenas
Andrea Silva grew up in Colombia singing Shubert at funerals as a kid. There wasn’t a lot of radio ...
July 31, 2020 at 12:00 pm
Appreciate the grey in Fontaines D.C.’s ‘A Hero’s Death’
Last year at a dive bar in lower Manhattan I watched a group of college girls drinking in the corner booth absolutely lose it when the ...
July 8, 2020 at 12:00 pm
Dream Wife’s ‘So When U Gonna…’ could help break barriers for women and non-binary people in the industry
Dream Wife’s always created sound that could belong only to them, distinctly: slightly surprising punchy pauses and quickly ...
June 30, 2020 at 12:00 pm
SAULT’s new surprise record is magic, blunt, and necessary
There’s no needless sheathing of the obvious on SAULT’s latest record, Untitled (Black Is). It’s a diary of what the ...
June 23, 2020 at 12:00 pm
Lionel Boy’s ‘Lately’ leaves room for shadows to sprawl
“Lately, I feel like I can’t hold my head up high
Don’t mind me girl, I’ll be fine when I’m ...
May 26, 2020 at 12:00 pm
TikTok’s fucked up *algorhythm* and the music biz
Art by Julia Fletcher, find more of her work here.
Just last night I accidentally spent two hours scrolling through my For You page ...
May 18, 2020 at 12:00 pm
ICYMI: NZCA LINES, SadGirl, Mamalarky, Groupie
ICYMI is a series featuring new and notable releases you (and we) may have missed
Art by Enne Goldstein, you can find more of their ...
May 12, 2020 at 12:00 pm
Nuha Ruby Ra goes bravely backwards in “Erase Me” video
‘It’s confessional film music, new age noir. The song lyrics were inspired by three lovers, the one who left, the one I ...