Album Review

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSEIEdRo02Q “I cannot let you walk I am you.” It is with this bold proclamation that Thomas Mullarney III leads Escapements. Provocative lyrics (“I am not a servant / To...

Started by Berkeley alum Chris Chu and friends as The Morning Benders, POP ETC is a sunny songwriting machine that encapsulates its title with their recent fourth record, Souvenir, out January 29 via Rough ...

Thanks to the Internet, the careers of many young artists such as Lorde, Halsey, and The Weeknd have been catapulted from anonymity to pop stardom. Troye Sivan is no exception in the social media / pop culture ...

After much anticipation, the singer-songwriter who has enraptured possibly every last person who is not completely tone deaf has finally come out of her four year long sabbatical with her third studio album, 25...

Directed with his boyfriend -- a German photographer who’s worked previously with M.I.A. and Woodkid -- Arca (real name Alejandro Ghersi) is several unexplained movements away from revealing himself entirely ...

You may not have heard of Kishi Bashi, but you probably have heard him. Since 2011, he has recorded with and opened for artists like Sondre Lerche, Regina Spektor, of Montreal, and Alexi Murdoch. He is also a f...

Maynard James Keenan, frontman of Tool and A Perfect Circle, considers Puscifer his 'creative subconscious'. After hearing V for Vagina in 2007, many believed that Puscifer would be a playful and comic side ...

Sweden continues to be a pop music powerhouse, having paved the way for iconic artists from the likes of ABBA, Robyn, and most recently Icona Pop, Say Lou Lou, Little Dragon, Tove Lo, and many more. Twenty-o...

The release of Depression Cherry marks yet another superb album, just more of what we have come to expect from the indie synth-pop duo that has garnered continuous critical acclaim since their self-titled debut...

Five years is a long time. During which, a lot of things can happen: marriage, buying a new home – and the release of a fourth album. Joanna Newsom’s latest album Divers (2015) brings pieces of her past int...

Indie rock band Deerhunter returns this month with their seventh studio album, Fading Frontier, on October 16 via 4AD. The album arrives in the wake of frontman Bradford Cox’s recovery from a serious car acci...

In 2012, tUnE-yArDs bassist Nate Brenner created a solo musical project known as, Naytronix. His first album and EP under the moniker featured an experimental pop sound covered in a haze of psychedelia and su...

During his seventeen years as the guitarist and producer of Death Cab for Cutie, Chris Walla has gone from playing club shows and sleeping on floors to being part of one of the most critically and commercially ...

Yup, that’s your doctor. He’s in. At the party. It’s something we call “alternative remedies.” The kitschy lo-fi disco coming from that yellowed ceiling speaker? It’s the new Neon Indian. In a mo...

Larry Gus strains. Every song he makes pushes itself past its logical limits, every lyric pulls him closer to some breaking point, every frantic percussion hit is a punch in his own gut and yours. His musi...