5 years ago
Watch: Mia Joy “Freak”
photo by Sydney Haliburton
With distant, reverberating chords and percussion reminiscent of water droplets plopping heavy down to ...
5 years ago
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 ...
5 years ago
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 ...
5 years ago
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 ...
5 years ago
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 ...
5 years ago
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 ...
5 years ago
‘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 ...
5 years ago
Red Ribbon drives us into the surreal southwest on “Renegade”
If you’re looking to fill the Lana Del Rey shaped hole in your heart with someone earthy, less problematic, but equally as ...
5 years ago
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 ...
5 years ago
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 ...
5 years ago
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 ...
5 years ago
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 ...
5 years ago
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, ...
5 years ago
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 ...
5 years ago
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? ...
5 years ago
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 ...
5 years ago
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 ...
5 years ago
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, ...
5 years ago
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 ...
5 years ago
ICYMI: Iceage, MAY-A, Eades, Dry Cleaning
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 ...
5 years ago
‘Little Fish’: The pandemic that never ends
‘Little Fish’ is a mental and emotional mind fuck, but in the best way possible. The story involves Jude (Jack ...
5 years ago
‘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 ...
5 years ago
Offscreen III: Beach, Body & Water
Offscreen is a column by writer, actress, producer, Virginia Rand. Art by Sarah Schmitt.
The Pacific can be unforgiving in its ...
5 years ago
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 ...
5 years ago
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 ...
5 years ago
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 ...
5 years ago
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 ...
5 years ago
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 ...
5 years ago
Malcom & Marie: what we fight about when we fight with someone we love
I’m starting to think that the way I process film is fundamentally different than the way most critics do. This happened very ...
5 years ago
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 ...
5 years ago
Michaela Coel’s “I May Destroy You” delivers on its promise
Trigger warning: sexual assault.
**Spoilers below**
“I May Destroy You”, does exactly what the title implies. To say that ...
5 years ago
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 ...
5 years ago
Listen: Kahiem Rivera – “Cement, Sand / The Bag”
There’s a tinge of nostalgia in Kahiem Rivera’s latest output. It’s hard to imagine that, this time last year, ...
5 years ago
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 ...
5 years ago
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 ...
5 years ago
Zine preview: Native Sun tour diary
My last moments pre-quarantine were spent on tour with Native Sun in California. After an amazing week out west, we headed back to the ...
5 years ago
On their sophomore record, Goat Girl dissect our world with savage accuracy
It seems we as a society have grown accustomed to sticking labels on things. Everyone who’s visited the UK in the last five or so ...
5 years ago
Watch: Squid “Narrator”
Looking like they’re in a computerized, post-apocalyptic landscape, Squid brings us their first single, “Narrator”, ...
5 years ago
Zine preview: Post Animal
At the top of 2020, Chicago psychedelic rock group Post Animal unveiled their long-awaited sophomore record, Forward Motion Godyssey, ...
5 years ago
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. ...
5 years ago
Listen: Shame ‘Drunk Tank Pink’
Following the release of their highly-acclaimed debut Songs of Praise (2018), and it being awarded the title of Rough Trade’s Album ...
5 years ago
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 ...
5 years ago
Listen: The Muckers – “That’s All I Want”
I’m always a fan of some sort of creative restriction or framework — self-inflicted or otherwise — and how it inspires an ...
5 years ago
Zine preview: Pretty Sick
Photo by Manon Macasaet
Sabrina Fuentes, the front woman for Pretty Sick, has always known she would be doing exactly this. It is ...
5 years ago
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 ...
5 years ago
Offscreen: disease
Offscreen is a column by writer, actress, producer, Virginia Rand
It’s the same day lived again and again: isolation, disruption to ...
5 years ago
Listen: Viagra Boys ‘Welfare Jazz’
Viagra Boys’ new album Welfare Jazz fuses elements of jazz, post-punk and folk in perfect harmony. The Stockholm, Sweden-based band ...
5 years ago
Shamir is already part of our “Diet”
Shamir never planned for “Diet” to be a single, nor for there to be an accompanying music video to the popular track. ...
5 years ago
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 ...
5 years ago
Sex and sexuality are not monstrous, but the way our media portrays it certainly is: a rant
It’s no secret that the television zeitgeist has become substantially more violent in recent years. Violence in film has become ...