EP Premiere: Kip Nelson ‘Waves After Work’
It’s hard to find any genuine sense of relaxation these days—the news makes it feel like the world is constantly on the verge of imploding, humanity is trash, and dreams are only meant for the wealthy....
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Sweet and creamy: Fever Ray @ Brooklyn Hangar
Nine years after unleashing their pitch-black eponymous debut album, Fever Ray is back in the States again with a quake full of dark textures and sexual liberation. Though I was blissfully unaware in...
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All headlines: An interview with The Dreebs
Text and interview by Tamim Alnuweiri. Photos by Lauren Khalfayan. I read something on Pitchfork or some shit that called The Dreebs New York’s best kept secret. It’s an obnoxious title to bestow on...
View ArticlePlay this at my funeral: Daniella Valdez
Play This At My Funeral is a new mixtape series where people (somewhat obviously) curate music for their own funerals. This week Daniella Valdez shares her death trax. Desde que somos pequeños nos...
View ArticleWatch: Champagne Superchillin’“Amor Fati”
Photo by William Aubrey Reynolds. Nietzsche and David Lynch ain’t got nothing on Champagne Superchillin’. The wonderfully bizarre ’60s french pop-inspired band is rearing up for the release of their...
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Tour diary: On the road with Glove
Find Glove on Bandcamp, Spotify, and Instagram. My band Glove is a new wave rock n’ roll band hailing from Tampa, Florida and we recently came back from a three week West coast tour. Sweaty, congested...
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Interview: Spitting blood with Starcrawler
Photos by Noelle Duquette at Elsewhere’s Loft, styling by Cait Durra for Worship. Interview by Amanda Lang. Everything about LA based punk rock band Starcrawler is larger than life. From the six foot...
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The guttural pursuits of sonic terrorists: an interview with The Sediment Club
Interview by Tamim Alnuweiri. Photos by Luis Lucio at Nick van Woert’s studio. Writing about The Sediment Club feels like a futile mission. Not that they’re not worth waxing poetic about but everyone...
View ArticlePlay this at my funeral: Jimena García Vázquez
Photo by Zabrina Estrada. Play This At My Funeral is a new mixtape series where people (somewhat obviously) curate music for their own funerals. This week product and graphic designer Jimena García...
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Hinds: Behind the scenes of a sold out Warsaw show
Photos by Lauren Khalfayan, polaroids by Grace Eire. At 2:30 on Thursday afternoon, Hinds is recovering from a night off in Brooklyn. They’re sprawled out on a pale tan leather sectional in the very...
View ArticleFirst Listen: Mazzy Star “Still”
Hope Sandoval and David Roback, better known as the core duo of mournful, misanthropic Mazzy Star have been around for a very long time. They may have gone through a couple different record labels,...
View ArticleAn interview with The Black Lips—America’s most dangerous country band
Find the Black Lips on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. In April The Black Angels and Black Lips rolled through Saint Petersburg, Florida to play the State Theatre on their most recent tour of the US....
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To Philly and back to see The Kills @ Union Transfer
There’s a reason The Kills and their crunchy blues-rock continue to make the rounds and blow out speakers. Their most recent LP, 2016’s Ash & Ice, distortion gods Allison Mosshart and Jamie Hince...
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Man and Machine: An Interview with Sons of An Illustrious Father
Text and interview by Lauren Khalfayan. Photos by Luis Lucio There are very few instances in which I’ve listened to an album for the first time and had a visceral, physical reaction to it. Deus Sex...
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Mixtape: Navy Gangs’ songs for the road
Navy Gangs is on the road and sent in their road trip playlist. Listen to it below and catch them while they’re on tour. Hey there friends and fans, here are some tracks that we all over here in Navy...
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Starcrawler and Yaasss wreaking havoc at Elsewhere
Photos by Daggers For Eyes, find her on Instagram here. Starcrawler Yaasss
View ArticleVideo premiere: Sleeping Pills “Drift Away”
Using just a green screen and some oversaturated graphics and patterns, Sleeping Pills has put out a psychedelic surf video for “Drift Away,” off of their A Maze In A Wave album released in October of...
View ArticleHop Along at Brooklyn Steel
Philadelphia indie band Hop Along feels very grounded. It isn’t just the simplicity with which they present their music, lead vocalist Frances Quinlan swaying to the melodic songs which she sings and...
View ArticleSong premiere: The Ophelias “General Electric”
After playing the token girl in numerous bands of guys, bassist Grace Weir, guitarist and lyricist Spencer Peppet, percussionist Micaela Adams, and violinist Andrea Gutmann Fuentes joined together in...
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Japanese Breakfast brings upbeat energy to Warsaw
My only previous live Japanese Breakfast experience was at Union Pool outside on the patio on an incredibly hot summer day. Like, hellishly hot, the kind of hot that makes everything radiate its own...
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