February 28, 2019 at 9:00 am
Album Premiere: Pink Mexico ‘DUMP’
Sometimes, on the edge of a cold winter where Brexit is never ending and Donald Trump’s stint in the White House feels like it’s ...
February 27, 2019 at 9:00 am
Get high with HOMESHAKE’s latest album ‘Helium’
Everybody has that one friend who’s down for whatever. Turn up, turn down, or turn in they’re a reliable good time regardless of ...
February 4, 2019 at 9:00 am
Listen: Lotion Princess ‘Take Care’
It’s a fact that Washington, DC has the most slept-on music scene on the East Coast (yeah I said it). Newly formed indie ...
January 30, 2019 at 11:00 am
Ghost King offers a delectable delirium on ‘Dunbar Swamp’
Photo by Jessica Gurewitz.
Listening to Ghost King’s new record, Dunbar Swamp, is like cracking open a variety bag of technicolor ...
January 29, 2019 at 9:00 am
Cherry Glazerr ‘Stuffed & Ready’
Bright, sunshine-soaked California anthems feel good. They can pull a listener away from their inner darkness, and bring them to a ...
January 25, 2019 at 9:00 am
Juan Wauters embraces traditional sounds in new album
“Only because I can, I’ll rebel. That’s how I like to be,” sings Juan Wauters in the opening track of La Onda de Juan Pablo in ...
January 25, 2019 at 9:00 am
If FIDLAR’s ‘Almost Free’ were a person it might be a sociopath
I feel like I have to come clean right off the bat and admit my undying love for FIDLAR. They’re one of the only bands I’d go to ...
January 24, 2019 at 12:00 pm
Album Review: Girlpool’s “What Chaos Is Imaginary”
When I agreed to review the new Girlpool album, What Choas is Imaginary, I figured I would trash it. I loved the music Harmony and ...
January 9, 2019 at 9:00 am
Early listen: Jangula “Ataraxia”
In a parade of unconventionally orchestrated disorder, Jangula release Ataraxia. The title, meaning a state of mind free from ...
November 15, 2018 at 2:45 pm
Floating away with Kid le Chat’s Lost Critters
Kid le Chat has self-released their sophomore LP, Lost Critters: a constantly captivating new-wave album made for you to ...
November 6, 2018 at 9:00 am
Escape-ism’s “The Lost Record” is radical musical exploration
It’s always interesting to experience an artist who is somehow a chameleon, yet very individual and recognizable. Ian Svenonius has ...
November 2, 2018 at 9:00 am
Surfbort’s Dani Miller breaks down the new Gnarcissists EP
Photos and words by Dani Miller of Surfbort. You can keep up with Surfbort on Instagram.
The most genuine banging and clanging ...
November 1, 2018 at 9:00 am
Dances return with “Venus Figurine”
In a testament to persistence and mental resilience Dances return with the excellent Venus Figurine. After their debut album Dances ...
October 23, 2018 at 9:00 am
Nighttime’s ‘Hand in the Dark’ cured my breakup blues
Eva Louise Goodman’s new album, Hand in the Dark, is absolutely ideal for sipping a heavily CBD infused almond milk latte after a ...
October 19, 2018 at 9:00 am
The lightspeed fury of Surfbort’s “Friendship Music”
Only Surfbort could have an album title as innocent as Friendship Music yet fill it with tracks that exude an infectiously gritty, ...
October 11, 2018 at 11:37 am
Listen: Mark Sultan – Let Me Out
Mark Sultan is clearly a man who likes to take his time. Sultan first got into punk music at only 12, moving on to garage rock at 16. ...
October 8, 2018 at 10:00 am
Album Review: Black Honey, “Black Honey”
It was four years ago now that the UK’s Black Honey first serenaded listeners with their debut EP. With tracks full of fuzzy ...
September 28, 2018 at 9:00 am
Winter x Triptides “Estrela Magica”
Photo by Gabe Fernandez
Winter (Samira Winter) and Triptides (Glenn Brigman) didn’t intend to record an album together, but ...
September 24, 2018 at 9:00 am
Album Review: Sextile ‘3’
This new album from Sextile, 3, just makes whatever you’re doing so much better. While working on something else that I hate a lot ...
September 14, 2018 at 9:00 am
Album Review: Pale Waves, “My Mind Makes Noises”
From the first line of their debut record, My Mind Makes Noises, Pale Waves encapsulates what has made their music ...
September 6, 2018 at 9:00 am
Album Review: Trevor Powers ‘Mulberry Violence’
Trevor Powers, FKA Youth Lagoon, dismantles everything on his new debut solo album Mulberry Violence. The gentle and wiry voice that ...
September 4, 2018 at 12:00 pm
Listen: Bernadette – Shadow Paint EP
photos by Paul Isgard
Recently, I’ve found myself bouncing around a new term in my head, one that I think really encapsulates a ...
August 28, 2018 at 9:00 am
I listen to this album a lot: Marina and the Diamonds “The Family Jewels”
2010, like every other year I spent in high school, was rough for me. I was a 300 pound 15 year in old 11th grade and being the ahead ...
June 14, 2018 at 9:00 am
Album Review: MOURN ‘Sorpresa Familia’
Sorpresa Familia opens up with their first lead-in single “Barcelona City Tour,” which is packed and punching with energy. It’s ...
June 12, 2018 at 9:00 am
Album Premiere: GRLwood “Daddy”
The queer revolution is here and it’s…Kentucky-fried with a side of screamo? That’s what “scream-pop” duo GRLwood have ...
May 29, 2018 at 10:00 am
First Listen: Mazzy Star “Still”
Hope Sandoval and David Roback, better known as the core duo of mournful, misanthropic Mazzy Star have been around for a very long ...
May 16, 2018 at 1:54 pm
Album review: Courtney Barnett ‘Tell Me How You Really Feel’
Courtney Barnett is among the most observational of contemporary songwriters. 2014’s The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas and the ...
May 10, 2018 at 8:31 am
First listen: Arctic Monkeys “Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino”
A few years ago one of Alex Turner’s friends gifted him a piano, and for the first time in his career, he set aside his guitar. He ...
May 4, 2018 at 8:00 am
Throwback Review: X Ray Spex “Germfree Adolescents”
I’m constantly stunned by my tendency to obsess and fixate on what I know I love. It’s easy to fall into a routine and to keep ...
April 16, 2018 at 8:00 am
Album Review: Many Rooms “There Is A Presence Here”
Somber and neither here nor there, Many Rooms, the moniker of Houston-based singer/songwriter Briana Hunt, conceived a debut album ...
April 3, 2018 at 8:00 am
Album review: Hank Wood & The Hammerheads Self-Titled
I’ve been watching Hank & co. for a few years now, and though their live shows have always been super energetic and powerful, I ...
March 29, 2018 at 11:00 am
Album review: The Voidz ‘Virtue’
Tomorrow the Voidz release their second record, Virtue, and it is a behemoth. At this point many of the albums best moments have ...
March 15, 2018 at 8:00 am
Album Review: Debit “Animus”
To Carl Jung the “animus” is an archetype of the masculine that is contained within the feminine, and performs subconsciously. ...
March 14, 2018 at 8:00 am
Throwback Review: The Kills ‘Midnight Boom’
I know it’s annoying when people talk about how great past generations were as if there weren’t always problems that made people ...
March 2, 2018 at 8:00 am
Album Review: Shannon & The Clams ‘Onion’
Let me just begin by saying that I was so instantly enamored by this album that I listened to it non-stop over and over again so ...
February 26, 2018 at 8:00 am
Revisiting Palma Violets ‘180’ five years later
One night in 2015 my roommate Courtney came home very drunk slurring about hanging out with a band in a bathroom and watching them ...
February 23, 2018 at 11:54 am
Listen: Cutouts new EP, “Loosies”
The boys are back in town: Cutouts have a freshly minted EP out, titled Loosies. It’s swirling with grey areas and soft-toned blacks ...
February 23, 2018 at 8:22 am
Album Review: Insecure Men Self-Titled
The black sheep of pop music; Insecure Men have created the most punk rock pop album you’ll ever hear. All the synth, oohs and ...
January 23, 2018 at 8:00 am
EP review: Alex Napping ‘Dish Soap’
I fell in love with Austin-based Alex Napping when I saw them open for the Hotelier at Brooklyn Bazaar this fall, and their album Mise ...
December 19, 2017 at 8:00 am
Editors’ Picks: Best albums of 2017
Illustration by Cynthia Alfonso, see more of her work here and here.
2017 is almost over—both a blessing and a curse (we all ...
December 12, 2017 at 8:00 am
BOUNDERS BOUNCE BACK: Total Control ‘Laughing at the System’
Hot sounds! Though creaking in at only 20 minutes, Total Control’s first release in three years Laughing at the ...
December 5, 2017 at 8:00 am
EP Review: Operator Music Band’s “Coördination”
I’m here for any band that sounds like they could soundtrack an 80s class video about the wonders of science, so I was pumped at ...
November 1, 2017 at 8:00 am
Album Review: A. Savage ‘Thawing Dawn’
October arrived with an autumn treat, the fresh out the oven Thawing Dawn by A. Savage (Parquet Courts frontman Andrew Savage). An ...
October 30, 2017 at 8:00 am
Album Review: Common Holly ‘Playing House’
I have to let you in on a secret: no one knows what the fuck they’re doing when it comes to love! We’re all stumbling blindly ...
October 27, 2017 at 8:00 am
Beyond Earshot: the forgotten gender politics of Lil’ Kim
Beyond Earshot is a new series by Jacob Seferian examining the cultural impact of music, past and present. Follow him ...
October 12, 2017 at 8:00 am
Throwback Review: Iggy Pop ‘The Idiot’
Review and illustration by Alberto Pazzi.
Good Rock’n’Roll is like comedy. When I see old videos of Iggy Pop bouncing around the ...
October 10, 2017 at 8:00 am
Radiohead’s ‘In Rainbows’ 10 years on
Review by Michael Morgan.
When a band you admire goes on a four-years-plus-long break in between releasing albums, there’s one ...
October 5, 2017 at 8:00 am
Album Review: Torres ‘Three Futures’
Torres’ Three Futures, her third studio album, feels like the full-realization of an artist trying to chip away at her own sound and ...
September 5, 2017 at 8:00 am
Album Review: The Pains of Being Pure of Heart ‘The Echo of Pleasure’
Autumn, the season of sweaters and cups of tea, approaches. Twee and Shoegaze, the genre that many accused The Pains of Being Pure of ...
July 28, 2017 at 9:00 am
Album Review: Katie Von Schleicher “Shitty Hits”
Before even getting into Katie Von Schleifher’s Shitty Hits you’ve understood a level of self deprecating humor that ...