Premiere: Watch Zilched’s “Blue Doom”
Photo by Lydia Kuzak The vampire sub-sect of rock and roll is often a deep, dark crypt full of pancake-make-up’d men afraid of growing old. Take for example all the subtlety and grace of The Hollywood...
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Thursday, August 1st Kyle Craft — Baby’s All Right ($12) Blood Orange, Kelsey Lu — Damrosch Park (FREE) Gymshorts, Stuyedeyed, Max Pain and the Groovies — Mercury Lounge ($10) Snail Mail, Duster,...
View ArticleGoon brings Heaven to LA with record release show at the Echoplex
To celebrate the release of their debut album, Heaven is Humming, LA-based indie rock group Goon brought their gritty, neo-90s grunge to the Echoplex in central Los Angeles on the 18th of July, one...
View ArticleShows we went to: Amyl and The Sniffers, Conor Oberst, The Marías
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...
View ArticleStarcrawler commits murder in video for “Bet My Brains”
Photo by Autumn de Wilde A little over a year ago I interviewed California based hard rock band Starcrawler and attended their show at a rooftop venue in Bushwick. The interview presented Arrow de...
View ArticleBeeef sees a day in the sun upon the release of their sophomore album, “Bull...
In their sophomore record Bull in the Shade, Alston-based quartet Beeef proves a consistent capability to deliver an exciting and nuanced listening experience. The solid foundation that was established...
View ArticleZine preview: Viagra Boys
Photos and feature by Lola Pistola Check out an excerpt and some outtakes from our upcoming zine feature on Viagra Boys Viagra Boys are hypnotic. Party vibes written all over them. If Rudimentary Peni...
View ArticleA few of our favorite things: Model/Actriz
Photo by Julien Kelly-Gross Hailing from Boston, dance-noise subversives Model/Actriz are ready to disrupt and amuse you. The trio draws from a variety of styles fusing charged guitars, texturized...
View ArticleZine preview: SASAMI and the divinity of improvised intention
Photos by Lauren Khalfayan, find more of her work here. Check out an excerpt and some outtakes from our upcoming zine feature on SASAMI A classically trained French horn player, teacher, and film...
View ArticleZine preview: In the pit with Dreamcrusher
Photos by Allen Ying Check out an excerpt and some outtakes from our upcoming zine feature on Dreamcrusher We’re primed for a seismic shift in America right now, and it makes sense that New York’s...
View ArticleZine preview: Mattiel
Photos and feature by Julia Khoroshilov. Find more of her work here. Check out an excerpt and some outtakes from our upcoming zine feature on Mattiel It was a hot Friday afternoon when Mattiel, who was...
View ArticleStaw Pipes mixtape
Straw Pipes is the collaborative vision of Chinese-born LeLe Dai and her close friend Stonie Clark. A precarious blend of 60’s nostalgia, inventive costumes, and raw/erratic performance, their band has...
View ArticleIssue 8 release party @ The Broadway: Dreamcrusher, Model/Actriz, Straw Pipes
Thanks everyone who came out to the release party last night! Truly was a magical evening unlike anything I’ve ever experienced before. Check out some photos by Julia and myself below and if you missed...
View ArticleMeltasia 2019
Feature and photos by Allen Ying. Meltasia is a small, DIY music festival up in the Catskills. You see the bands play, you go for a swim, and you’re camping in the woods w/ zero corporate presence or...
View ArticleSteele: A few of my favorite things
Photo by Cal Mcrae I totally credit Steele with introducing me to the New York music scene. When I first moved here several years ago, I almost always stayed in my little Manhattan bubble. One random...
View ArticlePremiere: Twin Peaks and Post Animal combine magic powers on acid as Column
Photo by Tim Nagle Chicago bands seem to know each other and connect with each other in a way that doesn’t organically happen anywhere else. There’s an incredible community in Brooklyn where everyone...
View ArticleSippin’ coffee & talking post-punk with BLOOM
Photos by Tylor Loring BLOOM isn’t your typical group of NYC design punks. Their live performance alone should be enough to turn your own mind into an impossible jigsaw puzzle. Distortion heavy,...
View ArticleListen: The Murder Capital ‘When I Have Fears’
It’s an unfortunate reality that bands over here in the United States just don’t have the same sort of “umph” that I’ve become absolutely hooked on — whether it’s the combination of screaming,...
View ArticleListen: Uniform x The Body team up for ‘Everything That Dies Someday Comes Back’
In 2018, Uniform & The Body teamed up to release the brief, but very promising, Mental Wounds Not Healing. Now, a little over a year later, the two duos have returned via Sacred Bones with...
View ArticleTour Diary: Beechwood Summer European Tour
Beechwood is the Brooklyn band we don’t deserve. As their own song states, they’re “sweet like heroin honey” — laced with a little bit of darkness and danger. Gordon Lawrence from the band shared some...
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