Author Joanna Jiang

We’ve been anticipating Mark Dobson’s forthcoming and ever-elusive debut record… for years. By way of Brighton under the deceivingly-French moniker Ambassadeurs, Dobson’s been producing a distinct, ...

Not an unusual congruity for two fresh, young producers who recently played a 32-stop tour together, the mutual learning between last year's dark horse Slow Magic and UK beat spinner Daktyl is evident w...

If you’ve grown up in a temperate climate on the east coast or rural Europe, you’ll know there’s something about the low-hanging moistness of morning fog rolling over soft hills and valleys. Moors: si...

We used to listen to a few songs repeatedly. Now we can listen to more songs, with fewer repetitions. In its latest campaign, TIDAL describes itself as “the future of music streaming.” The service wa...

Merging hard electronic with soft acoustic, Graham Walsh imposes a fuzzy electro-rock haze over Julie Fader’s floaty vocals on their debut record, Reminisce (out March 24 via Hand Drawn Dracula). Separate...

photo by Jordan Curtis Hughes UK indie rockers Wolf Alice recently announced their much-anticipated debut, titled My Love Is Cool, last week and are currently crossing the nation on a tour that sees stops t...

Saturday evening at the newly reopened Swedish American Hall began as an excruciatingly slow, sit-down affair. The picturesque venue, Noise Pop headquarters for this year’s festival, was exactly as descri...

Los Angeles' Brendan Angelides, the critical mass behind Eskmo (and Welder), seems to have reached escape velocity. Or rather, I suspect he has the formula to do so. But instead, the producer remains with u...

The first time I stumbled upon their music, I forgot about kntrlr in about the same time it took for me to get acquainted; we parted ways after this trial period. Four years later, and days ahead of the ...

Good local rock is often plentiful. Excellent local rock is a treasure. Blisses B, a self-described psychedelic-folk rock quartet, hits a sweet spot with their latest Sea Level Astronomy, released last S...

Now in its 23rd year, San Francisco’s celebrated annual Noise Pop festival returns next week with over a hundred artists at about 50 shows in 18 venues in San Francisco and the East Bay. In addition to live m...

photo by Nour Mohamed “For thousands of years Egyptian farmers irrigated by simple diversions from the Nile and nothing went badly wrong;” writes American environmentalist Marc Reisner in his best-known...

“In our live career, we really are inexperienced,” admitted London Grammar vocalist Hannah Reid in an interview with the Guardian this past summer. In other instances, they have displayed a frankly aver...

Critics of the modern electronic music scene (myself included) need often be reminded just how young its purveyors are. Just shy of 24, Henry Steinway (better known by his stage name RL Grime and former mon...

Following a three-year hiatus since their last release, The Union Trade's upcoming sophomore full-length LP sounds exactly as named. On A Place of Long Years, the local band ditches bassist Nate Munger's em...