Originally the singer and keyboard player for Chicago based experimental band, Ga'an, Lindsay Powell seems to have her fingers in all kinds of proverbial pies. In addition to her previous projects, Skyblazer and Festival (the latter created alongside her sister), Powell's latest venture Fielded is once again taking her down the colourful path of futuristic psych pop. I hear it's nice this time of year. Created in a home-studio at the house she grew up in, I can't help bu...
15 years is an impressive span of time by any standards, especially when it comes to music. The typical band's life-expectancy is hardly more than a few years, creative differences and adverse personalities taking their wear on the gears until the whole machine comes to a crumbling halt. It's a game that the Athens, GA indie-rock group pacificUV know as well as any. Since forming in 1998, the band has included more than a dozen members. They've relocated out West and then back again,...
Boston-based music blog Allston Pudding has come up with a great way to help with relief after the horrific events at the Boston Marathon on Monday. Knowing how tight-knit and supportive the great music scene in Boston is, the blog called for submissions to a mix that would solicit donations for The One Fund, a charity set up to help with relief in the aftermath of the explosions. The response was overwhelming and the mix had to be capped off somewhere, so they finished it up and released it tod...
Brooklyn's art-scuzz two-piece Japanther have announced that they'll be releasing a new record, Eat Like Lisa Act Like Bart, through Recess Records on May 21. Along with the announcement comes a free download of their latest single, "Stolen Flowers", which is a distorted pop-punk dream with enough punch and plenty of "ooo"s to keep us thinking of—what else?—summer. The band continues to pump out their signature bratty filtered sound and never fail to feel ...
In celebrating twenty years of Goner Records, this year's Goner Fest was already bound to be an epic affair. With the announcement of the initial lineup of the yearly fest's bands, we're more certain than ever that Nashville is the place to be. From September 26 - 29, the city of Nasvhille will get taken over by some notable Tennessee staples as well as bands from all over the world, most notably it seems from Australia/New Zealand. The lineup that was announced today prominently fe...
Not content enough to premiere the new All Tiny Creatures "A Lone Sound" single alone; Thomas Wincek proudly presents A Lone Sound Mixtape courtesy of Hometapes as a supplementary taster of the upcoming Dark Clocks album available in June. Wincek is joined by fellow Volcano Choir members Andrew Fitzpatrick, Matt Skemp, along with Ben Derickson, where new creatures and creations are constructed through closer and newer looks and listens to the day to day human made technologies that we ...
"Got that broccoli cheddar soup / with that Panera Bread." Happy Wednesday to us all. In a moment of otherwordly benevolence, we've been given a Lunice-produced track for Chicago newcomer Rockie Fresh (with no affiliation to the A$AP Mob), and not only is it a banger to end all bangers, its subject matter is Panera Bread, the sandwich-and-soup chain. You had us at "Panera Bread." Lunice, who recently signed with Maybach Music while his partner, Hudson Mohawke, went with ...
We walk your streets late at night while you're asleep creeping from the sewers oozing from the cracks*, but every now and then we like to come out in the early afternoon to gnosh while imbibing in sinful refreshments. Or as you like to call it: Brunch. You are cordially invited to attend our afternoon potluck brunch featuring music by Hilly Eye and Emily Wells. What better way to burn that spring hagover than with food and drinks that other people prepared? Sunday, April 28 At the Capon...
It's been a while since we've given you news from the fashion front, mostly because we stick to casual Fridays every day of the week, but this news seemed like a worthy share. Brooklyn band K-Holes, who will be supporting the Yeah Yeah Yeahs on their upcoming UK dates, have formed an exclusive hosiery line (boys: hosiery = tights) for a company they're calling Windish Michel. The tights are wearable high art, using vibrant colors and psychedelic patterns and collages to really bring ...
The story goes that Challenger was born out of scoring the film Not Waving But Drowning, written and directed by the band's Devyn Waitt. John Ross, another integral part of Challenger, heard something more in those compositions. "Life In The Paint", with its emo sample and early aughts indie rock fabrics of hushed vocals and The Postal Service-esque sonics, is off The World Is Too Much For Me - the record born of those attic sessions. All that restraint coupled with singing o...
If you knew nothing of the band Suburban Living, there is no doubt that you'd think they were British. And maybe had timewarped themselves into the future from the late 80s. Maybe if you closed your eyes tight enough, you could be convinced to believe Suburban Living was a Morrissey side project, one where he stops whining about politics and nonvegans, and gets back to the real truth of pain. But you'd be wrong about everything, probably not for the first time. Suburban Living is the pr...
Why should continental popsters Phoenix get all the attention just because they marry a Coppola, sell Cadillacs, and trot out an R. Kelly hologram at Coachella? Granted, maybe the following Gallic brethren aren't as rich, popular, or good-looking, but it's possible they have a little more of that je ne sais quoi that feels more exotic than familiar. Zombie Zombie, "Illuminations" Aforementioned analog synth duo Zombie Zombie, illustrate their pulses and funky snare shuffle w...
American electronic musician Tobacco might just be as dangerously seductive as the product he named himself after. Thomas Fec, AKA Tobacco, is a Pennsylvanianite known for being the frontman of Black Moth Super Rainbow. He and the rest of Black Moth Super Rainbow are known to be private and elusive, so bear with me and my lack of significant information. Their music seems to speak for itself though, and it is saying "we are doing incredible musical things." Odd Nosdam got his hands ...
Ohh what's that squishy little sound in the background? How is it Thundercat can list emotive words representing changes in a relationship (heart break, setbacks, break ups, make ups, love (5x) and he's got us by those strings pumping our heart? On "Heartbreaks + Setbacks" Thundercat zeroes in on the emotional core of a sound he tinkered with on his debut The Golden Age of Apocalypse. Co-written with Mono/Poly and Flying Lotus, the track gives way to Steve Bruner's vocals,...
In a review of the Stone Roses' first show in America in 18 years—at Coachella, of all places—Guardian writer Tim Jonze laid bare the fact that basically no one showed up. Surprisingly, the crowd at the Stone Roses' American coming-out party had only a fifth of the crowd as the Tegan & Sara set that was happening adjacent. Though that may be an indication of the uninformed nature of the American masses (jury's still out), could it also mean that the world no longer ca...
UK synthpop artist Chad Valley (also known as Hugo Manuel) just released his first full-length record, Young Hunger, and is touring the US and bumping out those good dancy vibes, but that hasn't stopped him from releasing two new remixes. The first comes from Depeche Mode founding member and 1/2 of the duod Erasure, Vincent Clarke, who has taken the song "Up and Down" to a high-powered sweetness that might remind you of the early days of club disco. The vocals are echoey and earnes...
Real dream pop should give you all of the following things: A shoegaze so hard you know how many strands of thread are in your laces, so many layers you could sleep in Central Park in December under them and not be cold (or dead), and a perfect mixture of airy and powerful (like Otto Mann with an air rifle) and if this were the official 2013 checklist, Brooklyn quartet, Papertwin, have all of the boxes firmly ticked. Along with the recent dream-pop/new wave revival comes the ability for cheap i...
It's been a year and half since their debut LP was released and according to their Brooklyn-based label, Captured Tracks, it's been "a year and a half of touring, losing their jobs and parts of their sanity". Eventful. Despite having a seemingly turbulent year, Swedish punk quartet, Holograms, finally released a sneak peak at their new upcoming LP, Forever, with the track "Flesh & Bone", and if this little taster is anything to go by, it sounds as though ...
So begins the third and final installment of our three-part Chain Letter interview series, conducted at this year's SXSW! How does the chain work? Each band gives us three questions to ask the next band, who propose their own for the following band, and so on. Today's chain gets mystical/magical with Sam Flax, Burnt Ones, and Warm Soda as the Austin festivities wound down, landing us on a leather couch in the back of Warm Soda's van, stroking some crystals. No better place to b...
The new tape from Minneapolis/New York trio Beat Detectives is 19 tracks of blissful space-haze. The cassette, which is available for purchase on Moon Glyph, is called Casual Encounters of the Third Kind and it pulses and throbs with homemade beats, indecipherable lyrics, bassy thumps, and the occasional slice of a raw guitar lick. The band has self-described this latest release as "less Ibiza, more Nissan Ultima." We couldn't agree more. There are two tracks available to stream o...
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