Zine preview: Post Animal
At the top of 2020, Chicago psychedelic rock group Post Animal unveiled their long-awaited sophomore record, Forward Motion Godyssey, only to have their official roll-out plans (and a subsequent...
View ArticleWatch: Squid “Narrator”
Looking like they’re in a computerized, post-apocalyptic landscape, Squid brings us their first single, “Narrator”, off their forthcoming debut record ‘Bright Green Field’. Inspired by ‘A Long Day’s...
View ArticleOn their sophomore record, Goat Girl dissect our world with savage accuracy
It seems we as a society have grown accustomed to sticking labels on things. Everyone who’s visited the UK in the last five or so years might have noticed a new fondness of naming storms. When I grew...
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Zine preview: Native Sun tour diary
My last moments pre-quarantine were spent on tour with Native Sun in California. After an amazing week out west, we headed back to the city before we were set to tour the east coast and down to SXSW....
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A few of my favorite things: Creams
Creams’ pulsating dark pop is completely hypnotic. From the first electronic whispers on her latest track, “Sleep On Me”, the listener knows they’re in for a deeply captivating ride. In the...
View ArticleAussie psych-onauts The Lazy Eyes take a fantastic voyage to inner space on...
“Where’s My Brain???” is 6-and-a-half minutes of largely instrumental motorik-powered psych that ebbs and flows with an organic pulse punctuated with chiming guitar notes and chunky riffs. Analog synth...
View ArticleListen: Kahiem Rivera –“Cement, Sand / The Bag”
There’s a tinge of nostalgia in Kahiem Rivera’s latest output. It’s hard to imagine that, this time last year, integration and community were an essential part of life. Things are a little different...
View ArticleDesire buries their past in the desert in “Zeros”
There is a sinister, high fashion aura that permeates the landscape of Desire‘s music video for “Zeros”. As I was watching it, I felt like I had been immersed in a Nicolas Winding Refn film. I didn’t...
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Premiere: ‘Alpha’, the first of Little Bird’s three-part saga ‘Proxima’
The first of a three-part, 23-song saga from Charleston’s Little Bird, Alpha, is a little bit jam band, a little bit jazz, a little bit indie rock, some R&B – and add some spacey synths in there...
View ArticleNRCSSST throw a public access party for the modern era on muscular “Don’t...
Before YouTube, before Twitch streams and Facebook live, bands would take their shows to the visual airwaves on public access television. These late-night, left-of-the-dial programs were locally...
View ArticleListen: Arlo Parks ‘Collapsed in Sunbeams’
Arlo Parks’ debut album “Collapsed in Sunbeams” is an intimate vibe that never stops, from beginning to end. The album starts with spoken words and gains momentum as the songs progress in an indie pop,...
View ArticleMush’s ‘Lines Redacted’ walks us through an apocalypse like a David Lynch film
Mush’s second album, Lines Redacted (out this past Friday, Feb 12 via Memphis Industries), came in quick succession to their debut 3D Routine, and it’s just the heady-hectic collection of songs you’d...
View ArticleArtist x Artist: Tolliver x Blimes and Gab
Art by Enne Goldstein, you can find more of their work here I don’t think you could walk into a gig from New York to L.A., or anywhere in between, without seeing at least one person in a pair of docs....
View ArticleWatch: GUNK. –“We’re On A Time Crunch Baby”
Pink Mexico’s Robert Preston Collum and long-time collaborator Mike Forst fused their talents in their latest project GUNK. They released the song “We’re on a Time Crunch Baby” as a music video on...
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‘For the first time’ hardly feels like a first
Black Country, New Road’s debut record, For the first time, leaves you wanting more, not because it’s lacking in splendor, but because its track-listing is so devastatingly short. Looking at pictures...
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Alan Vega possesses King Woman’s Kris Esfandiari in industrial cyberpunk...
Alan Vega built a career on the fringes, a cultural blade runner perpetually on the bleeding edge of conceptual art who kicked down barriers of convention to expose uncharted territory of artistic...
View ArticleListen: Julien Baker ‘Litle Oblivions’
Julien Baker has found the rare perfect balance between sticking to your guns and undergoing a total reinvention on Little Oblivions, her new self-produced full-length for Matador Records. Just an...
View ArticleWelome to Pisces season: swimming in calm
It’s always around Pisces season (February 18-March 20), the last bit of winter, where I start to get really reflective about the last months spent inside. It’s an introspective time but also,...
View ArticleListen: Claud ‘Super Monster’
Photo by Jeremy Reynoso At first sight, the album artwork for Claud’s Super Monster immediately reels you in — a brightly colored daydream. Super Monster explores love in its truest form, from falling...
View ArticleMaple Glider’s “Good Thing”: a living, bleeding elegy
Photo by Bridgette Winten It really is impossible to avoid the echo of love after the end of a relationship isn’t it? Doesn’t matter how little they deserve it, doesn’t matter the myriad reasons...
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