Listen: Surfbort “Les Be in Love”
World music is a strange name for a genre when you think about it. Lots of questions arise. Whose world is it? What music qualifies to be of this world? Is there also a subgenre called anti-world...
View ArticleWatch: Promiseland “My Shadow”
Promiseland has taken New York City. The solo project of Australian artist Johann Rashid has cultivated a reputation for destroying and even scaling every venue he plays, resulting in countless...
View ArticleRevisiting Palma Violets ‘180’ five years later
One night in 2015 my roommate Courtney came home very drunk slurring about hanging out with a band in a bathroom and watching them take a shit ton of drugs. I kind of knew who Palma Violets were at the...
View ArticleListen: Bush Tetras “Red Heavy”
It’s always an exciting day in music when a 1970s NYC punk group graces the world with more music. The pioneering punk band Bush Tetras were one of the leaders of post-punk. They wreaked havoc on the...
View ArticleListen: Bambara “José Tries to Leave”
Bambara have returned with the first track from their upcoming album Shadow on Everything and have found no reason to lighten up. Singer, Reid Bateh, drones hopelessly as he vividly describes the story...
View ArticleMixtape: Pisces season
Mixtape by Julie-Anna George. Pisces, I know you well, as my sister, brother and father, you are born between February 20th and March 19th and you are the dreamer of the zodiacs. You see the world...
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Photo Diary: Dr. Martens presents Charly Bliss @ Baby’s All Right
Photos by Lauren Khalfayan, find more of her work here.
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Live Review: Jacuzzi Boys and The Muckers @ Baby’s All Right
Photos by Lauren Khalfayan, find more of her work here. For concert goers, Sundays suck most of the time. One of the last Sunday’s I went to Baby’s, the crowd stood 10 feet away from the stage and...
View ArticleListen: Honduras “Need The Sun/Water Sign”
It’s a new day in Honduras. The Brooklyn duo has no connection to the actual country, but it doesn’t matter as they’ve been playing continuously around the city for a few years now with their electric...
View ArticleListen: BOYTOY “Mary Anne”
Surf rock is dead, long live surf rock is what I wanna hiss into your ears over and over after listening to “Mary Anne” the last single from BOYTOY. The Female, but not fucking girly, brooklyn band...
View ArticleWatch: Goat Girl in “A Hard Days Night” inspired video for single “The Man”
Goat Girl, the British girl group who are on the verge of cult stardom have shared the visuals for their snappy psychedelic rock track, “The Man.” The music video brilliantly flips the narrative of the...
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Album Review: Shannon & The Clams ‘Onion’
Let me just begin by saying that I was so instantly enamored by this album that I listened to it non-stop over and over again so many times that I was able to knit an entire scarf from scratch. Shannon...
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Live Review: The Districts and Twin Peaks @ White Eagle Hall
Photos by Brett Myers. Who the fuck goes to Jersey City for live music? I do, I guess. However, a new venue called the White Eagle hall has proved to be a surprisingly fun space for live music. Imagine...
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Bleeding out with BOYTOY: Outtakes from Issue 6.5
Photo by Daggers For Eyes, find her on Instagram here. Here are outtakes from the forthcoming Issue 6.5—a preview of what’s coming in the special SXSW edition. Hailing from Brooklyn, BOYTOY infuse a...
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Live Review: Diet Cig @ Elsewhere
If you took packet of Skittles, poured them into a two liter bottle of Sprite covered in glitter, then drank the entire thing in under two minutes, you still wouldn’t be able to attain the seismic...
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Bleeding out with Bambara: Outtakes from Issue 6.5
Photo by Daggers For Eyes, find her on Instagram here. Here are outtakes from the forthcoming Issue 6.5—a preview of what’s coming in the special SXSW edition. A Bambara show is like vicariously...
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Photo Diary: Vundabar @ Market Hotel
Photos by Lauren Khalfayan, find more of her work here.
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Lord of Chaos, God of Filth: Promiseland’s outtakes from Issue 6.5
Photos by Luis Lucio. Here are outtakes from the forthcoming Issue 6.5—a preview of what’s coming in the special SXSW edition. During the interview between Promiseland and Surfbort (which is available...
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Interview: Big White
Interview by Brett Myers. Big White, a five-piece Australian band, is a shit ton of fun. At least, to listen to. I didn’t get to catch them during their first U.S. tour in 2016 in support of their...
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