May 15, 2014 at 1:45 pm
Interview: Amen Dunes is Punk in ‘Love’
Amen Dunes has a knack for music that forces trancelike introspection or solipsism, though the psychedelic tag attached to the sound ...
May 1, 2014 at 4:01 pm
The Truth is Either Terrible or Boring: An interview With Artist Brandon Sines
Whether he’s quoting sage wisdom from the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie or taking an Inception-worthy selfie, Brandon ...
April 30, 2014 at 12:00 pm
Interview: Japanther is stoked about what the internet is doing for the human race
Japanther’s been around for more than a decade now, but that hasn’t slowed down their output or their sound — and ...
April 21, 2014 at 2:00 pm
Between Sleep and Agony: An Interview with Fear of Men
Fear of Men, hailing from the beach town of Brighton, England create dark, guitar-based pop that shouldn’t be described as ...
April 17, 2014 at 10:00 am
Interview: Dan Croll
I had two choices on a Saturday night last year during CMJ Music Festival: make the long and difficult voyage to Brooklyn (not so ...
April 14, 2014 at 12:00 pm
Interview: Odonis Odonis
Odonis Odonis are as charming as they are abrasive. While the Toronto trio are quick to capitalize on the more inviting aspects of ...
April 9, 2014 at 1:50 pm
Interview: Meet the Witches of Bushwick
By now, it seems that most of New York City, particularly those residing in northern Brooklyn, are at least somewhat familiar ...
April 2, 2014 at 12:48 pm
Hitting the Spa with Awkwafina
In case you ever find yourself with the #blessed opportunity of being able to conduct an interview at a spa, I would not recommend ...
March 26, 2014 at 2:34 pm
Interview: Bleeding Rainbow Says They’re Not A Shoegaze Band
Philadelphia’s Bleeding Rainbow has been a band in transition from the very start. Began as Reading Rainbow by Sarah Everton ...
March 13, 2014 at 1:29 pm
Turning Up on ‘Moonshine’: An Interview with Artist Mike Hinson
Delaware’s Mike Hinson, now based in Brooklyn, has a knack for storytelling of the bizarre kind. Or, in the case of his ...
February 12, 2014 at 5:28 pm
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young YouTuber
YouTube is turning 10 this month, and it has come a long way since that first trip to the zoo in 2005. Despite having already achieved ...
January 23, 2014 at 1:03 pm
Future So Bright: An Interview with Pompeya
Pompeya’s infiltration into the indie rock scene has been more of a slow burning breakthrough than the typical hook-laden ...
January 9, 2014 at 1:59 pm
Capturing Bright Nights: An Interview With Tod Seelie
Burning car outside of my apartment, Bushwick, Brooklyn, 2007.
After years of photographing the more intriguing, freakier, and ...
January 7, 2014 at 1:39 pm
Interview: Dope Body
My introduction to Dope Body was seeing them open for the equally cleverly named Fucked Up at Le Poisson Rouge. I was intrigued from ...
December 4, 2013 at 1:32 pm
The Battery’s Still In: An Interview with HUNTERS
Distortion and discordance are just two of the many volatile components bubbling beneath the surface of HUNTERS, a fuzzy ...
December 3, 2013 at 12:07 pm
Interview: Speedy Ortiz
There have been innumerable comparisons of Speedy Ortiz to Pavement. Sure, there are musical and vocal similarities, as singer and ...
November 19, 2013 at 1:26 pm
LA’s Feel-Good Artist Demystifies the Swag: An Interview with Gregory Siff
It wouldn’t be wholly incorrect to deem him an arbiter of commercially viable urban cool. But despite his insistence that he ...
November 6, 2013 at 1:41 pm
Interview: Rocket & The Ghost
The week of CMJ is crazy — not just for us fans, struggling with earplugs and lack of sleep night after night. Those who have ...
November 4, 2013 at 12:48 pm
Ride or Die: An Interview w/ HeartsRevolution
I must admit I was somewhat nervous about meeting with HeartsRevolution. If you’ve listened to their music (which you should) ...
October 28, 2013 at 4:52 pm
Getting “Soft” with Luke Rathborne
Bright-eyed yet thoughtful beyond what his 25 years would suggest, Luke Rathborne has returned to the music scene after a brief ...
October 24, 2013 at 1:11 pm
Strange Powers: An Interview with Xenia Rubinos
“She’s doing some R&B sounding vocals with weird keyboard stuff,” is the not too far from accurate description an onlooker ...
October 23, 2013 at 1:12 am
Making Art and MEN: An Interview with JD Samson
While some of us are often left disappointed and frustrated with humanity, people like JD Samson are out there making change, good ...
October 7, 2013 at 1:00 pm
Mind Games for the Masses: A Tête-à-Tête with Gilf!
Hypocrisy On A Crocodile
Get your mind out of the gutter: the artist currently known as gilf! has more on her mind than your-mom ...
October 1, 2013 at 10:15 am
Gordon Holden: The Customer Is Always Right
Gordon Holden operates at the crux of contradiction and corroboration, a point that occurs both expectedly and organically within ...
September 23, 2013 at 8:38 pm
Interview: Hanging with Habibi
The ladies of Habibi make the kind of music that I can listen to for days. This Brooklyn-based group spins delicate surf-pop songs ...
September 9, 2013 at 11:11 pm
Finding the Poco Poco Beat with The Suzan
The Suzan is a charming, all-female pop rock band operating out of Brooklyn by way of Japan. Their first major release, Golden Week ...
September 6, 2013 at 11:16 am
Interview: Radical Dads
Radical Dads, who are basically Alt Citizen BFFs at this point (they played our summer jam back in June) were gracious enough to grant ...
August 19, 2013 at 1:35 pm
Butter The Children On True Crime
Butter The Children gets a lot of shit for its name. Even me, a self-described stan for the band was apprehensive to listen. But when ...
August 13, 2013 at 6:05 pm
Seasick Mama Finds Her Sea Legs (And Other Dispatches From Brooklyn)
In a way, Marial Maher (that’s Seasick Mama to you) has the sort of wild success story that precedes her own chutzpah. ...
August 5, 2013 at 1:33 pm
Talking About Panic Attacks, Mercury Retrograde and More with Psych Rockers TEEN
TEEN started as a solo project for Teeny Lieberson has gone through plenty of evolutions, both in line up and in sound. In its most ...
August 5, 2013 at 2:11 am
Keeping It Real–Or Whatever–with Megan Boyle
Have you met Megan Boyle? She’s a writer and poet, and her debut book of poetry Unpublished Blog Posts of a Mexican Panda ...
August 4, 2013 at 8:14 pm
What It Means to Jangle: A Chit Chat with Ski Lodge
Morrissey walks into a bar with a pocket full of change – but there’s nothing funny about sounding like a ...
July 8, 2013 at 12:41 pm
Kalae Nouveau: An Unapologetic Soul
It seems like just yesterday that I had my first experience as a member of Kalae’s audience, but it has been almost two years now. ...
June 26, 2013 at 1:27 pm
My Lost Weekend with The So So Glos
backstage at the kniting factory
I may or may not be a fortune teller and not know it. This also depends on your definition of a ...
June 25, 2013 at 1:14 pm
INTERVIEW: Take a Closer Look at Real Life Barbie Charli XCX
Looking at Charlie XCX now it’s not surprising to know that her inaugural performance was an a cappella of Aqua’s ...
June 19, 2013 at 1:35 pm
Finding the Sweet Spot with Hilly Eye
“Amy should be here around 8:15, she’s coming straight from work,” Hilly Eye’s Catherine Tung tells me as we sit on couches ...
June 10, 2013 at 1:50 am
‘Kitten’ Is Anything But A Sleepy Ball of Fur
More often than not, it’s difficult to take teenage rockers seriously. I mean who, at age 17, is capable of writing totally ...
June 6, 2013 at 4:20 pm
Bernhoft: Norway’s Most Soulful Export
Photo by Wave
Every once in a while, I browse YouTube to see what music and videos are popular in other countries. I stumbled upon ...
May 30, 2013 at 1:35 pm
Exploring Food and France with Rita J
What do you get when you mix two parts Chicago with one part tap dance, and three-quarters vegetarianism and then blend until smooth? ...
May 5, 2013 at 2:38 pm
Director Li Lu Wants to Make Film About The Brutal Realities of Your 20s
Editor’s Note: Filmmaker Li Lu and I have known each other for years, and I have always found her knack for storytelling and ...
April 25, 2013 at 11:37 am
Getting Lost in Secret Mountains’ Rainer
Photo by Micah E. Wood
Secret Mountains is a band split between Baltimore (where it originated and some members of the sextet still ...
March 21, 2013 at 3:23 pm
Shedding the Many Skins of Emily Danger
It would be easy to say that a band’s music is an extension of the members’ personalities. Obviously this can’t be true in all ...
March 5, 2013 at 11:00 am
Avan Lava –– Restoring Your Faith in Pop Music
L to R: Ian Pei, Drew Citron, TC Hennes, Jo Lampert, Andrew Schneider, Le Chev / Photo by Clay Standley
“Let me tell you about your ...
February 28, 2013 at 5:52 pm
Sitting at the Cool Kids’ Table with Body Language
L to R: Tater (standing in for Ian Chang), Grant Wheeler, Matt Young, Angelica Bess
(Full disclosure: this feature actually took me ...
February 27, 2013 at 3:50 pm
Dynasty Electric: Psychedelic Dance Rock’s Reigning Duo
Powerful. Raw. Rock. Totally badass theramin solos. What more could you ask from the aptly named duo Dynasty Electric?
I was blessed ...
February 25, 2013 at 4:05 pm
Sam Margevicius: Catching Miracles on Film
Sam Margevicius is a Swiss army knife of talents – he is a dedicated photographer, videographer, skateboarder, and sometime model. ...
February 19, 2013 at 4:15 pm
Goodie!
No matter how much house and bass I listen to, I’ve continually circled back to Kingdom and his fellow artists on the Night Slugs ...
February 18, 2013 at 4:00 pm
Gracie and Rachel: Where to Begin
I’ve been living in New York City for about a year and a half now, and one thing that never ceases to amaze me is how cultural ...
February 18, 2013 at 3:30 pm
Doe Paoro: Born Whole and Going Forth
I first heard about Doe Paoro in early December 2011. Feeling slightly jaded by some of the reimaginings of folk and soul music being ...
January 25, 2013 at 10:21 pm
Three-piece Psychedelic Thrash Band, The Shrine
Now, I’m all for going out West, but there’s something that irks at my soul when I hear, “LA,” and then I ...