Watch: The Voidz “initiate” Julian Casablancas
Julian Casablancas + The Voidz are back with some fresh new digs for you to check out—Julian Casablancas has officially been inducted into The Voidz. No longer do we need to refer to the band as Julian...
View ArticleEditors Picks: Best live acts 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 thought things couldn’t get worse than 2016 but here we are…). Our editors...
View ArticleBOUNDERS 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 System re-coronates them as Australia’s premiere minimal punk noise-synth champs. While...
View ArticleMixtape: Salty Christmas
Tis the Christmas season, and while most Christmas music is merry, there’s a lot of stressors that come out around the holidays. You have to worry about buying plane tickets home, budgeting your money...
View ArticleReview: Parquet Courts @ Elsewhere
Photo by Luis Nieto Dickens, courtesy of Elsewhere. I’ve been listening to Parquet Courts on a daily basis until very recently, I must admit. In the 5 years I’ve been living in this city I had heard of...
View ArticleInterview: Beach Fossils
Photos by Tamim Alnuweiri. I’ve loved Beach Fossils for a really long time, so the chance to interview them before their show Dr. Martens show at Elsewhere and talk about what changed in the making of...
View ArticlePhoto Diary: Delicate Steve @ Elsewhere
Delicate Steve played last week at Elsewhere.Photos by Daggers For Eyes, find her on Instagram here.
View ArticleInterview: Tall Juan on new EP ‘Joya Nedo’
Photo by Audrey Del Piccolo. Interview by Julie-Anna George. Tall Juan is a nice guy who plays rock and roll—that’s it. Like a greaser will always love his bike more than anything else, Tall Juan’s...
View ArticlePremiere: Moonwalks “Sequins”
If you’ve ever come across Moonwalks then it will only seem fitting and on the nose obvious that their singles carry names like “Dust is Magic” or their latest release be “Sequins.” The Detroit based...
View ArticleEditors’ 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 thought things couldn’t get worse than 2016 but here we are…). Our editors...
View ArticleListen: Sobs “Catflap”
Celine Autumn, Jared Lim, and Raphael Ong make up the Singapore-based project Sobs. In June of 2017 these self-proclaimed purveyors of “uncool pop music” dropped Catflap, a blubberingly sweet EP. The...
View ArticlePhoto Diary: Chorizo, Ice Balloons, Slam Section close out 2017 @ Ceremony
Photos by Daggers For Eyes, find her on Instagram here. Chorizo Ice Balloons Slam Section
View ArticleTwin Guns on their 9 favorite music videos
Started by Andrea Sicco and Jungle Jim (of The Cramps and The Makers) and joined by Kristin Fayne-Mulroy in 2014, Twin Guns is old school goth tinged punk. Their music fills the entirety of the...
View ArticleMixtape: a post-holiday mix from Wooing
Wooing perform at Cult Citizen this week alongside Uni and Twin Guns. Since we’re in the in between-ish period of the holiday between Christmas and the New Year, we asked the band for a playlist of...
View ArticlePhoto diary: Insecure Men and Sloppy Jane @ Zone 1
Photos by Daggers For Eyes, find her on Instagram here. Insecure Men Sloppy Jane
View ArticlePhoto diary: Surfbort @ Brooklyn Bazaar
Photos by Daggers For Eyes, find her on Instagram here. These were taken of Surfbort at Jonathan Toubin’s Soul Clap & Dance Off at Brooklyn Bazaar.
View ArticleMixtape: City kids
Mixtape and artwork by Daniel Shepard. These are some songs that I would recommend to anyone but there are people that think punk music is about raw screaming voices and rough noises—it’s more than...
View ArticleEditors’ Picks: Best new bands of 2017
2017 is over! We’ve spent the last few weeks revisiting our favorite music videos, albums, and live acts. In this last installment of our end of year look back, we examine some of our favorite acts to...
View ArticleWatch: Mo Troper “Tow Truck”
Photo by Samantha Sutcliffe. A la boy bands of the 60s, namely The Monkees, Portland based Mo Troper takes to an older style of music videos. Joined by his three band members, the Oregonian...
View ArticleWatch: Dois “Stromboli”
Text by Cynthia Alfonso who you may recognize as the illustrator behind our brilliant end of year posters. Below is a video that she co-created as part of her new animation studio RAPAPAWN. Dois is a...
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