May 7, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Listen: Iceage ‘Seek Shelter’
Over the last decade, Iceage have managed to become one of the most divisive acts in punk and indie rock. The four records comprising ...
May 5, 2021 at 9:00 am
Brooklyn, there’s a new band in town. Meet Catcher.
Photo by Grace Watts
Coming in like a cool breeze, stylish new post-punk outfit Catcher have made their entry into the Brooklyn ...
April 30, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Sarah Greenwell’s latest as Greeensleeves is a heartbreakingly earnest ode to love and loss
Photo by Devon Bristol Shaw
Sarah Greenwell’s solo project, Greeensleeves, charts a different course from her rambunctious output ...
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 28, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Les Rallizes Dénudés: the most mysterious band in Japan
Please find both Spanish and English translations of the article below
Desde secuestrar un avión hasta bootlegs, esta es la historia ...
April 23, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Black Fly reveals a depth to the darkness on ‘Black Fly 01’
There’s something contradictory about Black Fly’s music.
Described as soaring and cinematic, the reality of Black Fly’s 01 is ...
April 22, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Wayne Snow walks on Mars in “Seventy”
Berlin-via-Paris-via-Nigera experimental neo soul artist Wayne Snow gained popularity during the rise of the nu jazz scene in Berlin ...
April 21, 2021 at 2:49 pm
Damon Smith, Piano Man
Article by Urvija Banerji Photo by Charlie Baker
At an intimate show at Rockwood Music Hall earlier this week, Damon Smith unfurled a ...
April 21, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Wolf Alice delivers a stadium-sized britpop empowerment anthem on the kaleidoscopic “Smile”
Wolf Alice’s steady development from folk leaning acoustic project to full blown indie rock powerhouse has reached critical mass ...
April 20, 2021 at 12:00 pm
4/20 mixtape
*wooooo*
Whether you’re “celebrating” or not today, here’s a mixtape to pair with the day. Even though ...
April 19, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Listen: Spellling’s fantastic and theatric “Little Deer”
Spellling has always appeared to be a mystical, magical sort of human with a magnetic and mysterious aura, but she dives even deeper ...
April 16, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Sedona’s “Missing in Paradise” will make you fall in love
Sedona’s “Missing in Paradise” is a 80’s style dream pop fantasy song a la Love Witch. In fact Sedona herself ...
April 15, 2021 at 12:00 pm
A question of faith: Native Sun seek salvation at the end of a fishhook on the biblical “Jesus”
Ancient Christians used the symbol of Ichthys, a fish-like shape comprised of a pair of inverted arches commonly found adorning the ...
April 14, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Live music is back at The Sultan Room *cries*
Photo by Allen Ying
It feels almost surreal to say, but live music is coming back. It might not be in the same sweaty, beer soaked ...
April 13, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Social distancing with The Muckers
Photos by Lucy Blumenfield. Find more of her work here.
The Muckers are Brooklyn-based rock band with a distinctly New York sound, ...
April 12, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Listen: Essential Forever ‘There’s A Lot Still To Say About’
Al Heaney of Chicago’s Jungle Green has ventured out on a new solo project, Essential Forever, playing the character of a ...
April 9, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Psychodelia in Latam
Please find both Spanish and English translations of the article below
Mientras el Summer of Love, Woodstock y Vietnam creaban una ...
April 8, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Listen: Tkay Maidza “Syrup”
Our Issue 9 cover star, Zimbabwe-born Australian Rapper Tkay Maidza is back, following up her 2020 release Last Year Was Weird Vol. ...
April 7, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Sorry takes a deep dive into their own diaries with ‘Twixtustwain’
Photo by Sam Hiscox
One of North London’s most exciting offspring, Sorry – the musical brainchild of duo Asha Lorenz and Louis ...
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 ...
April 5, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Wombo’s “Dreamsickle” is a dreamy lullaby
Photo by Destiny Robb
The video for Wombo’s Dreamsickle puts the viewer in the perspective of a very young child, looking up at ...
April 1, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Been Stellar break free from media mind control on the rebellious “Louis XIV”
Photo by Drake Li
Tackling heady topics in musical four-minute treatises is a hallmark of a certain school of independent music, and ...
March 31, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Dry Cleaning doesn’t care about your socialized ideals
Photo by Steve Gullick
On their latest video, “Unsmart Lady”, Dry Cleaning shares amongst skittering guitars and Florence ...
March 30, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Mixtape: it’s called regression, sweaty
You’re either lying or living in a very different reality if you haven’t experienced even a *momentary* moment of ...
March 29, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Watch: Iceage “Shelter Song”
Photo by Jonas Bang
Iceage’s “Shelter Song” is shockingly tender, embodying a hugely 90s sound with mellow, chest-driven vocals ...
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 25, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Sex is good but have you listened to Donna Missal?
Photo by Julia Pitch
We’ve all been doing a lot of masturbating lately. Certainly the rise of OnlyFans is proof of that. ...
March 23, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Watch: Mia Joy “Freak”
photo by Sydney Haliburton
With distant, reverberating chords and percussion reminiscent of water droplets plopping heavy down to ...
March 22, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Black Honey have finally nailed the sound they’ve been striving for, and it’s written and directed by them
Photo by Laura Allard Fleischl
Infusing the actual blood, sweat and tears of band members into the pressings of vinyl records is a ...
March 19, 2021 at 12:00 pm
David Lynch takes a trip on the good ship lollipop on Glume’s “What is a feeling”
In a rich, red brocade room, complete with a heart shaped headboard and sparkling chandelier, we find the always enchanting Glume for ...
March 18, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Listen: Squid – “Paddling”
Here they come.
There’s a steady build up to Squid’s latest track “Paddling”. First comes a simple riff, then some electric ...
March 17, 2021 at 12:00 pm
N0V3L search for balance on “Group Disease”
With an 80s tinged, post punk darkness, offset by inescapably catchy, tinkling keys, N0V3L is back with the first single off their ...
March 16, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Mixtape: what we’re listening to
Art by Mikayla Lewis
Writing and reading about music is always a little ironic instead of just listening to the thing, so we’re ...
March 15, 2021 at 12:00 pm
‘Threesome’ showcases Baby Boys’ chaotically good collaboration
The sensual cover art for Baby Boys’ debut full-length record, Threesome (released March 12 via Grand Jury), practically predestined ...
March 11, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Watch: Appleby ‘Here With U’
Appleby saunters into 2021 with his first single, “Here With U”. According to his TikTok, the song was just a chorus living on his ...
March 10, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Steele FC’s “Cherry” ruminates on a beautiful breakup
I am being haunted by breakup tracks, but I’m not sure what else I expected. All music is about love and loss in one way or ...
March 9, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Watch: Wolf Alice “The Last Man on Earth”
Wolf Alice has been serenading listeners with dreamy indie rock since 2010. The four-piece London-based band dropped “The Last Man ...
March 8, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Spirit Award earns their gold star on crunchy and fuzzed out Lunatic House
Lunatic House, the third album from Seattle’s Spirit Award forms the culmination of a trilogy of crunchy and fuzzed out albums that ...
March 5, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Listen: Blanck Mass ‘In Ferneaux’
In Ferneaux, the latest LP from Benjamin John Power as Blanck Mass, begins in the middle of nowhere. An ambient loop bounces along, ...
March 4, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Listen: 2012 Bid Adieu – “Sanity”
It was two years ago now that 2012 Bid Adieu released their debut LP. Titled We Died In 2012: This Is Hell, but it’s not ...
March 3, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Maple Glider’s “Good Thing”: a living, bleeding elegy
Photo by Bridgette Winten
It really is impossible to avoid the echo of love after the end of a relationship isn’t it? ...
March 2, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Listen: Claud ‘Super Monster’
Photo by Jeremy Reynoso
At first sight, the album artwork for Claud’s Super Monster immediately reels you in — a brightly ...
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 26, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Listen: Julien Baker ‘Litle Oblivions’
Julien Baker has found the rare perfect balance between sticking to your guns and undergoing a total reinvention on Little Oblivions, ...
February 25, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Alan Vega possesses King Woman’s Kris Esfandiari in industrial cyberpunk nightmare “Nike Soldier”
Alan Vega built a career on the fringes, a cultural blade runner perpetually on the bleeding edge of conceptual art who kicked down ...
February 22, 2021 at 12:00 pm
‘For the first time’ hardly feels like a first
Black Country, New Road’s debut record, For the first time, leaves you wanting more, not because it’s lacking in splendor, but ...
February 18, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Watch: GUNK. – “We’re On A Time Crunch Baby”
Pink Mexico’s Robert Preston Collum and long-time collaborator Mike Forst fused their talents in their latest project GUNK. They ...
February 17, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Artist x Artist: Tolliver x Blimes and Gab
Art by Enne Goldstein, you can find more of their work here
I don’t think you could walk into a gig from New York to L.A., or ...
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 15, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Listen: Arlo Parks ‘Collapsed in Sunbeams’
Arlo Parks’ debut album “Collapsed in Sunbeams” is an intimate vibe that never stops, from beginning to end. The album starts ...