May 17, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Watch: Monsterwatch “Somewhere”
Monsterwatch’s “Somewhere” is an electric trek towards your own demise. Repetitive and pulsating, the single hammers ...
May 10, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Little Simz is elegance and opulence on “Woman”
In her directorial debut, Little Simz creates a luxurious world dripping in diamonds and clothed in silks for her latest music video ...
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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? ...
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 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 12, 2021 at 12:00 pm
NRCSSST throw a public access party for the modern era on muscular “Don’t Know Me”
Before YouTube, before Twitch streams and Facebook live, bands would take their shows to the visual airwaves on public access ...
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 ...
February 8, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Desire buries their past in the desert in “Zeros”
There is a sinister, high fashion aura that permeates the landscape of Desire‘s music video for “Zeros”. As I was ...
February 4, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Aussie psych-onauts The Lazy Eyes take a fantastic voyage to inner space on cerebral “Where’s My Brain???”
“Where’s My Brain???” is 6-and-a-half minutes of largely instrumental motorik-powered psych that ebbs and flows with an organic ...
February 3, 2021 at 12:00 pm
A few of my favorite things: Creams
Creams’ pulsating dark pop is completely hypnotic. From the first electronic whispers on her latest track, “Sleep On ...
January 29, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Watch: Squid “Narrator”
Looking like they’re in a computerized, post-apocalyptic landscape, Squid brings us their first single, “Narrator”, ...
January 25, 2021 at 12:00 pm
L.A. Witch’s “Motorcycle Boy” pulls a cinematic u-turn on the traditional biker narrative
Photos by Kelsey Hart
The siren song of the open road has long beckoned generations of wild spirits to tear across the vast expanses ...
January 20, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Paul Jacobs ponders the life of a creative with “Half Rich Loner”
When Paul Jacobs isn’t contributing to Montreal-based post-punk band Pottery, he’s busy crafting his own methodological schemes in ...
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 ...
December 15, 2020 at 12:00 pm
‘Another Round’ explores the beauty of a bender
Another Round, the latest outing by prolific director Thomas Vinterberg, is titled Druk in its native Danish. “Druk” means ...
December 11, 2020 at 12:00 pm
Death Valley has become the stage to Danz CM’s new lease of life
Photos by Shae Detar. Styled by Amanda Sherriffs.
Danz CM is one of those musicians that just radiates talent. Whilst many artists ...
December 10, 2020 at 12:00 pm
When nihilism becomes real in Viagra Boys’ newest video for “Creatures”
Following the first glimpse into Welfare Jazz, last week Viagra Boys shared the video for their newest track “Creatures” — a ...
December 7, 2020 at 12:00 pm
Rodes Rollins and HNRY FLWR duet in breathtaking new video, “Isolation”
Photos by Elliot Travis
Originally released earlier this year as an exceptionally polished demo, Rodes Rollin’s “Isolation” was ...
December 4, 2020 at 12:00 pm
Gossip Girl and the Responsibility of a Queer Reboot
Art by Enne Goldstein, you can find more of their work here
I should be clear from the start, I only religiously watched the first ...
November 19, 2020 at 12:00 pm
Watch: Dry Cleaning “Scratchcard Lanyard”
Thank god that as the world (and humanity) is spiraling further into the abyss Dry Cleaning remains a monotone, cheeky voice of dark ...
November 17, 2020 at 12:00 pm
Premiere: Watch Body/Negative’s “The Big Sleep”
Photo by Bailey Kobelin
Today, LA-based nonbinary artist/producer/multi-instrumentalist Body/Negative (aka Andy Schiaffino) is ...
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 6, 2020 at 12:00 pm
Watch: Jordan Dennis “Elon Must”
It’s 2020, and judging by his new video, Jordan Dennis has been spending lock-down looking at memes on the internet. Let’s be ...
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 7, 2020 at 12:00 pm
Shilpa Ray’s “Heternormative Horseshit Blues” calls for reform within straight culture
Photo by Ebru Yildiz
Shilpa Ray’s latest single “Heteronormative Horseshit Blues” is a gorgeous and relatable ...
October 6, 2020 at 12:00 pm
Watch: Beau “Dance With Me”
Think back, before the pandemic. It’s a Friday night; or heck, it could be a Wednesday. You’re meeting friends for drinks in ...
September 30, 2020 at 1:00 pm
Watch: Miloe “Winona”
Photo by Emma Quale
The deeper into quarantine/self-isolation I find myself, the more I’m drawn to softer music. Maybe ...
September 29, 2020 at 12:00 pm
HBO’s Euphoria: The kids will (maybe, probably) be alright
High school is always portrayed on TV as a painful and transcendent time in life. And I am going to be controversial in saying that ...
September 25, 2020 at 1:00 pm
Premiere: Been Stellar rage against the routine on disciplined new track “The Poets”
Photo by Drake Li
Faced with a excess of spare time and forcibly separated from creative co-conspirators by vast geographical ...
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, ...
August 25, 2020 at 12:00 pm
Premiere: The Love-In “Keep Your Mouth Shut”
Photo by Eden Lauren
Nashville based rock and roll band, the Love-In, is premiering the video for their second single “Keep ...
August 14, 2020 at 12:00 pm
Choose your own adventure with Kairos Creature Club
Photo by Tenny Rudolph
When I first came across Bandersnatch, the Netflix choose-your-own-adventure film, I became somewhat ...
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 6, 2020 at 12:00 pm
breathe.’s “Grace” delivers a moment of triumphant catharsis
Sydney-based Electronic Soul duo, breathe., have released the music video for their latest single, “Grace,” out via Silk.
On ...
July 24, 2020 at 12:00 pm
Premiere: Twisty Cats’ “Alien” is a weird and wild ride
Photo by Adriana Iris Boatwright
The video for Atlanta Indie band Twisty Cats’ latest single “Alien” has a very ...