Watch: Wet Leg “Chaise Longue”
Ok on the real, though, this is the most excited I’ve been for a band in a minute. Domino’s latest signees, Wet Leg, have just released their first single “Chaise Longue” — a cheekily monotoned lust...
View ArticleWolf Alice’s ‘Blue Weekend’ is a cinematic nod to music and its dynamics
Wolf Alice’s third album rapidly entangles us in between rhythms and a spectacle of asseverations and questions from lead singer and guitarist, Ellie Rowsell. Blue Weekend is the third studio album...
View ArticleBeechwood is back, live and in person
Photos by Lauren Massie One of our favorite New York bands pre-pandemic is reemerging into the post-vaxxed live music landscape this week with not one, but THREE opportunities for you to catch them...
View ArticleWatch: Serena Isioma “HUH?”
Photo by Daniel Delgato Chicago-based artist Serena Isioma is back with a technicolored funk track, “HUH?”. Switching between a 70s sitcom theme song setup, a cartoon world, and other dreamlike...
View ArticleWelcome to Cancer season: Wet Hot American Summer
Cancer season started on June 21st and we’ll be here until July 22. You’ve probably already felt a huge shift in energy with the solstice this past week, and with us leaving this very eventful and...
View ArticleLiily let us know exactly who they are with their latest single
Photo by Kristy Benjamin Following the release of their 2019 EP, I Can Fool Anyone In This Town, Californian four-piece Liily become an undeniable force amid their local scene, adding their name to the...
View ArticleHeaven’s just a gig away: Caroline Kingsbury’s confident new album and...
live photos by Steph Port “Look to your left, look to your right. We’re all friends.” As the sun set the stage at Spoke Bicycle Café was awash in burnished gold. Singer-songwriter Julianna Zachariou...
View ArticleJuly show forecast
Live shows are back finally and we’re a little (a lot) emo about it. Obviously we want to hit them all up, but here are our picks for the month of July. Friday, July 2 Steele FC, Charlotte Rose...
View ArticlePremiere: Watch Pure Adult’s enthralling and unsettling “Cam Girls”
Enthralling and hypnotic, taking turns where roads are not meant to be crossed, Pure Adult translates to an entity of its own. Pure Adult’s (Bianca Abarca and Jeremy Snyder) newest single “Cam Girls”...
View ArticlePremiere: Club Soccer “Wishing We Could Be in Love”
Written by Izel Villarba, find more of his work here. I met Nico Brunstein and Nando Dale one happenstance night on a Brooklyn football pitch (“soccer field” in layman’s terms), during a moment in the...
View ArticleVideo Premiere: Acid Tongue celebrates the apocalypse in ‘Rock ‘N Roll...
Photo by Chase Hart If you ever thought, “why not put some dancing rats on an atomic bomb,” then you and Acid Tongue are on the same page. For the video for their song “Rock ‘N Roll Revelations (feat....
View ArticleWatch: “Turnstile Love Connection”
Written by Izel Villarba, find more of his work here. When everything locked down, what was the one thing you realized you missed the most? Was it going to the movies? Live music? Bars? Sports...
View ArticleKing Woman is consumed by darkness in a blood orgy of erotic obsession on...
Early in his career, writer-philosopher Aldous Huxley wrote, “Perhaps it’s good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he’s happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all,...
View ArticleA few of our favorite things: Central Heat Exchange
Coming together across many different locations, but primarily a single timezone, the collaborative project, Central Heat Exchange, was formed by Adam Soloway, Santiago RD, and Jacob and Paul Stolltz...
View ArticleListen: Little Simz “I Love You, I Hate You”
Photo by Tilla Arcé In a darker and more dramatic turn than her previous release “Woman”, “I Love You, I Hate You” is still its own form of self-love in its maturity and vulnerability as Little Simz...
View ArticlePACKS “Clingfilm” is beautifully brutal
With every description of herself, PACKS’ vocalist Madeline Link seems to be decomposing from the inside out. “Clingfilm” is a haunting track born from the haunted. Scarred from her previous...
View ArticleMay Rio talks turtles, jazz/metal fusion bands, and creativity
Photos by Grace Pendleton May Rio is a strikingly creative person. Within about five minute of meeting her she pulls out a stuffed elephant which she knitted herself and mentions that she is taking a...
View ArticleWatch: Lala Lala “DIVER”
Said it once and we’ll say it again, Lillie West is on track to be our generation’s great collaborator. The artist behind Lala Lala has spent her time between her last record and this most recent...
View ArticleThe Lazy Eyes ‘EP2’ is a psychedelic invitation to a sunny and shadowy...
It’s remarkable how quickly The Lazy Eyes have accumulated acclaim since releasing their first EP in mid-2020, like a tiny snowball steadily picking up speed and increasing in size as it barrels...
View ArticleDeath Valley Girls defy preconceptions of traditional gender norms on...
Photo by Ammo Bankoff Positioned smack in the middle of Death Valley Girls’ luminous 2016 sophomore LP, Glow In The Dark, “I’m A Man Too” has grown to become a kind of anthemic thesis for the group’s...
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