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 movement, though, Claud will likely catapult to its forefront. Their latest...
View ArticleDITZ 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 is distinctly their own is utterly intoxicating to the ear. This, of...
View ArticleThe Advertisers burst out of the gates with their first track “Black Dog,...
Photo by Jessica Gurewitz. The Advertisers started out as a recording project between Casey Hopkins, Acacia Fusco, and Cameron Smithson—finishing an entire unreleased EP before ever playing their first...
View ArticleNever 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 only did he report and transcribe Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue...
View ArticleMarch 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 of these. Vundabar, Sidney Gish – Elsewhere ($15) The Beths, Bad Bad Hats –...
View ArticleGet 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 the circumstances and you’re always happy to have them around. Peter...
View ArticleAlbum 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 already lasted an eternity, you just need to be listening to songs...
View ArticleOn ‘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. Beginning as a sort of sister act, with members floating from band to band like...
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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 experience. Clay: I wish you could have heard what we heard, because it was pretty...
View ArticleL.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 your walk home. A feeling that becomes a presence that becomes a...
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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, Samia’s song “Someone Tell the Boys” sky-rocketed by 10,000 streams in a single...
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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 terms of the presence of large venues (we’ve resorted to having our...
View ArticleStarcrawler’s “She Gets Around” is a jolt of energy and angst
If Starcrawler ever runs out of energy, I have yet to see any proof of it. Their latest track “She Gets Around” is a testament to that. The bouncing beats and harsh guitar strums, can’t help but send a...
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Shows We Went To: Alex Cameron, The Kooks, Vundabar
Bringing back an old classic with a new twist. Shows We Went To started it’s online incarnation as a 35mm photo series back in 2015. Some of us may have adopted digital devices, but our ethos is still...
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Understanding ‘la onda’ de Juan Wauters
Photos by Allen Ying. Juan Wauters is a man of simple songs and intuitive thoughts. He expresses himself based on observation and after internally suffering from his own thoughts. The way he looks at...
View ArticleWatch: Launder “Chew”
Filmed in 16mm, LA’s Launder’s newest music video for “Chew” grasps your attention from the get-go thanks to the dramatic effect commanded by the point of view in which it was shot – from the...
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Procession: Dead of winter
Photos by Allen Ying. This was early January to early February, the dead of NYC winter, when it’s too painful to walk to the subway, but somehow worth standing outside for a smoke when you left your...
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Midwest transplants Bad Bad Hats are proof that good people will do good shit
Feature and polaroids by Grace Eire. Black and white portraits by Jessica Gurewitz. While Bad Bad Hats were getting ready for an early soundcheck, I loitered around an empty Music Hall of Williamsburg...
View ArticleListen: Spirit Award “Mountain”
Rock musicians have a history of leveraging their art for the general betterment of society. Sometimes it’s targeted protest songs, sometimes it’s star-studded concert fundraisers, and sometimes it’s...
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