7 years ago
Chicago Sampler
Chicago can so often get lost in the shuffle. Though it may not be as big of a musical market as New York, Los Angeles, or London in ...
7 years ago
Separating the stage persona from Samia
Photos by Julia Khoroshilov. Find more of her work here.
When sheer natural talent and the Spotify algorithm collided, ...
7 years ago
L.A. Witch Cast A New Spell On ‘Octubre’
L.A. Witch formed slowly, summoned from the smog and sprawl of their eponymous city like a specter hovering just around the corner on ...
7 years ago
Annie O Music Series presents: Evening with Pixx
Hailing from London, Pixx is an electro-pop goddess giving off an ethereal aura through her music. She’s blessing the East ...
7 years ago
Bayonne live in studio is the captain of an elaborate spaceship to another world
Contributors Grace Eire and Clay Pacelli saw Bayonne live in studio last week. Here’s a rundown of the otherworldly ...
7 years ago
On ‘Tasmania’, Pond ramp things up to boiling point
Fairly or unfairly, there may never be a review for this band where the words “Tame Impala” aren’t mentioned in unison. ...
7 years ago
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 ...
7 years ago
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 ...
7 years ago
March Show Forecast
Friday, March 1
Holy shit, good luck with picking a show for tonight. I’m low-key furious there’s no way I can be at all ...
7 years ago
Madeline Brewer and the evolution of a Scream Queen
The first time I saw Madeline Brewer was in Hemlock Grove, a television series which was essentially about a homoerotic relationship ...
7 years ago
Never too late, listen to Ratso’s debut single with Nick Cave
Throughout the years, Larry “Ratso” Sloman has been a collaborator, creator and first-hand spectator of emerging music scenes. Not ...
7 years ago
The Advertisers burst out of the gates with their first track “Black Dog, Black Hat”
Photo by Jessica Gurewitz.
The Advertisers started out as a recording project between Casey Hopkins, Acacia Fusco, and Cameron ...
7 years ago
DITZ on their Brighton roots, new music, and why rock isn’t dead
DITZ is an addictive listen. The Brighton-based quintet’s ability to meld sharp, thoughtful lyrics with a type of sonic power that ...
7 years ago
ICYMI vol.13: Orville Peck, Colin Caulfield, together PANGEA
ICYMI is a series featuring new and notable releases you (and we) may have missed
“Turn to Hate” – Orville ...
7 years ago
Photography Files: Kristin Gallegos
Los Angeles based photographer, Kristin Gallegos has spent her life immersed in various creative pursuits — whether that was the ...
7 years ago
Feb 22: Show Me The Body, TrippJones and Slim Poppins, Dreamcrusher, Twisted Thing ($10-$15)
Clear your calendars if you are ready for the line-up of your life. Show Me Body, TrippJones and Slim Poppins, Dreamcrusher, and ...
7 years ago
Listen: Claud “Easy”
I don’t know if indie pop is having a moment right now or I’m just starting to pay attention. If this is a moment or a ...
7 years ago
What’s in the van? with Naked Giants
The first time I saw Naked Giants live I kind of lost my mind. I went in with little to no expectations and was not prepared for the ...
7 years ago
Video premiere: ‘WHAT MANSION’ – BOMBZ
Photo by Michael Busse
On his experience viewing our earth from the surface of the moon, Neil Armstrong was quoted as saying, “It ...
7 years ago
Photo Diary: Chooglin’
Photos by Julia Khoroshilov. Find more of her work here.
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7 years ago
Surfbort’s new music video for “Billy” delivers insatiable fun
Mere months after making a supersonic splash with the release of their debut album, Friendship Music, Surfbort has already shared a ...
7 years ago
Interpol, Car Seat Headrest, Snail Mail @ Madison Square Garden
Photos by Lauren Khalfayan, find more of her work here.
Snail Mail
Car Seat ...
7 years ago
Deli Girls’ “Abortion” Made My Ears Bleed and I Can’t Stop Listening
I can’t understand most of the lyrics in Deli Girls’ newest single “Abortion”, off their upcoming album I ...
7 years ago
ICYMI vol 12: King Gizzard, Samia, Weyes Blood
“Raven” – The Well
Austin, TX power trio The Well reach new heights while plumbing the depths on the first single from their ...
7 years ago
Cult Citizen Now in LA
We had so much for with our first Cult Citizen: LA edition, we decided to make it a regular thing. Cult Citizen is officially now in ...
7 years ago
Delayed, shell-shocked thoughts on how ‘thank u, next’ took me to a strange existential place
Even though I know it’s not true in most cases, I sometimes default to the mindset that pop is formulaic and engineered by already ...
7 years ago
Mixtape: Spectral Heart
To celebrate the intense drear of this season of luv & St Valentine, I’ve concocted a vicious little soundtrack to a demonic ...
7 years ago
Show hopping: The Districts, Warbly Jets, COIN, Beirut
Photos by Lauren Khalfayan, find more of her work here.
Ever since that blood moon a few weeks back my obsessive tendencies have ...
7 years ago
Shamir is indie rock’s newest chameleon
Photos by Julia Khoroshilov. Find more of her work here.
In the few short years since Shamir jumped onto our dance Spotify ...
7 years ago
Glove, Bloom @ Trans Pecos
Photos by Ryan Layne, find more of his work here.
Glove
...
7 years ago
Feb 8: Flat Worms Album Release Show with Automatic and Kaz Mirblouk @ Zebulon
Holy cow, what a week. I don’t know about you but this one has been a real rollercoaster and after five days cooped up at ...
7 years ago
ICYMI vol 11: Sunflower Bean, The Mountain Goats, Wallows
King of the Dudes – Sunflower Bean
There was an interesting (now deleted) tweet floating around the internet in the aftershocks ...
7 years ago
Arthur and Amen Dunes @ Warsaw
Photos by Jingmin Ye
Arthur
Amen ...
7 years ago
Discourse on purpose with Daisybones
Photos and feature by Lauren Khalfayan, find more of her work here.
I play this game with myself all the time I like to call ...
7 years ago
Florida Sampler
Florida, the most southeastern state of all America, is commonly known for its bipolar weather patterns, oppressive heat, loony ...
7 years ago
Cult Citizen presents Kills Birds, Nyssa, Launder, Sugar Candy Mountain @ El Cid
Photos by Lauren Khalfayan, find more of her work here.
Kills Birds
Nyssa
Launder
Sugar Candy ...
7 years ago
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 ...
7 years ago
ICYMI vol 10: Better Oblivion Community Center, Naked Giants, Dude York
ICYMI is a series featuring new and notable releases you (and we) may have missed
Better Oblivion Community Center – Better ...
7 years ago
Indoor Pets @ Mercury Lounge
Something unfortunate about New York shows — It is very rare to find one where the crowd is willing to dance. Ordinarily, you have ...
7 years ago
Feb 1: Ice Balloons, BEECH Creeps, SAHD WHYTE GUYZ, Eaters @ Coney Island Baby ($10)
Are you ready for some soul changing, mind bending and other worldly tunes? If your answer is yes, you’ll be in for a ...
7 years ago
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 ...
7 years ago
February Show Forecast
There are few better ways of warding off the bitter cold, than a stifling gig. Shit’s a little expensive this month, so ...
7 years ago
Procession: Nocturnally speaking
Photos by Allen Ying.
Looking back at a handful of long, fun nights, with some of my favorite underground, up-and-coming ...
7 years ago
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 ...
7 years ago
69 Minutes Around the world with Yaasss
69 minutes around the world
69 minutes of moaning astral camels
69 minutes of brave childs of Sahara surfing the dunes
69 minutes of ...
7 years ago
ICYMI vol 9: Karen O, Deerhunter, Grim Streaker
ICYMI is a series featuring new and notable releases you (and we) may have missed
“Woman” – Karen O, Danger Mouse
A ...
7 years ago
Indoor Pets have a lot to be content about
Photo by Felicity Davies
Jamie of the UK based band Indoor Pets likes to be the center of attention, “but only for 5 ...
7 years ago
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 ...
7 years ago
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 ...
7 years ago
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 ...