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 Terminal 5 to see, I have “FIDLAR” tattooed on me forever, and I...
View ArticleIndoor 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 minutes…”. Well, he and his bandmates, James, Oliver, and Robbie, are about to be...
View Article69 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 sizzling falafels in hot boiling oil 69 minutes shahrzad telling the...
View ArticleCherry 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 mental beach. Cherry Glazerr, however, is taking a different route —...
View ArticleGhost King offers a delectable delirium on ‘Dunbar Swamp’
Listening to Ghost King’s new record, Dunbar Swamp, is like cracking open a variety bag of technicolor candies—each individual piece may be different, but they are nevertheless united in the fact that...
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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 to head out to the punk shows to drink in a higher level of energy....
View ArticleListen: 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 outfit Lotion Princess is proof of this. Fronted by Sasha Elisabeth, whose...
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Florida Sampler
Florida, the most southeastern state of all America, is commonly known for its bipolar weather patterns, oppressive heat, loony resident headlines, wild alligators, and a surplus of below average...
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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 “Is it that deep?” For Daisybones, the answer is a resounding “no”. The...
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Glove, Bloom @ Trans Pecos
Photos by Ryan Layne, find more of his work here. Glove Bloom
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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 playlists with the punchy banger “On the Regular” off his debut LP Ratchet,...
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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 decided to flare up in full force. This resulted in me thinking that it...
View ArticleMixtape: Spectral Heart
To celebrate the intense drear of this season of luv & St Valentine, I’ve concocted a vicious little soundtrack to a demonic B-movie that exists only in my wildest dreams/nightmares. Presenting...
View ArticleDelayed, shell-shocked thoughts on how ‘thank u, next’ took me to a strange...
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 wealthy money-driven minds and armies of songwriters looking for...
View ArticleDeli 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 Don’t Know How To Be Happy. But what I can get out of it seems to be plenty. “You operate…...
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Interpol, Car Seat Headrest, Snail Mail @ Madison Square Garden
Photos by Lauren Khalfayan, find more of her work here. Snail Mail Car Seat Headrest Interpol
View ArticleSurfbort’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 new song and an equally as buzzy music video to accompany it. “Billy”...
View ArticleVideo 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 suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the earth....
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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 full on storm that took the stage. They were opening for Ron Gallo...
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