BLAUS debut as an experiment gone right
On August 5th via Tricycle Records, Nathan and Zach Blaustone offer their debut work as BLAUS, a self-proclaimed “Booty House” duo. The brothers, based in San Francisco, “merge live instrumentation wi...
Joyce Manor masters sound on Never Hungover Again
It's a wonderful feeling when a band can be both sweetly nostalgic while maintaining a wholly mature and unique sound. Joyce Manor, although hailed as being a leader in the emo-revival movement, is doing ...
PS I Love You resonate strongly with third album, For Those Who Stay
PS I Love You’s third album, For Those Who Stay, out July 22nd via Paper Bag Records, will certainly warrant the Canadian indie rock duo yet another Polaris Prize nomination.
Fronted by multi-instrume...
Fink head south, grow progressive pessimism on Hard Believer
UK-based, DJ-turned-songwriter Fin Greenall’s orchestral folk trio, Fink, is the Django Unchained of their genre, rooted in a Southwest image of covered wagons and rolling tumbleweed but still progress...
Art Strikes Back: “Avaritia” by deadmau5
The pulsating reverberations of deadmau5’s "Avaritia" from while(1...
Art Strikes Back: Visual Review of Lone’s Reality Testing
"Blue Sky" was inspired by Lone's Reality Testing (2014)
Reality Testing was released June 16th, 2014 on R&S Records. Stream it via THUMP. ...
Young & Sick to play The Independent: “Twentysomething” and making waves
Under the moniker Young & Sick, LA’s beloved album artist and fashion designer Nick Van Hofwegen’s own musical career has had a smooth liftoff. Three years in the making, Young & Sick boasts a spa...
The Antlers add dimension, deepen texture on Familiars
Arriving two years after their 2012 EP, Undersea, The Antlers’ nine-track Familiars washes open with lead single “Palace,” a soft piano ballad. With its subdued tones and relaxed hi-hat beat, this in...
Echo explores his past, the Bunnymen help, and Meteorites grows up
Had Echo and the Bunnymen not split for six years in the 90s, they might today possess the same immortal status as Irish greats U2. With their psychedelic, New Wave tint, the prog-rock veterans have more or l...
Sweeten up with Strange Talk’s Cast Away
Melbourne’s Strange Talk are the luckiest strikers around, having survived both a label shift and a name change. Prior to gaining recognition from Australia’s Triple J (a radio station that spotlights emer...
DWNTWN gets ready for summer with confectionery self-titled EP
DWNTWN sounds like a fairly ordinary indie pop four-piece. A good indie pop four-piece, though; one that has two EPs under their belt and the Kitsune stamp of approval. The band's formation in 2010 after a bot...
Neon Trees cover the bases of modern dating on Pop Psychology
Due out on April 22nd, Neon Trees’s third album, appropriately titled Pop Psychology, is the pre-summer album that will convince you that lead singer Tyler Glenn knows exactly what is going on in that hormon...
Chet Faker crystallizes intricate thoughts in new soul collection Built on Glass
Since the breakout of his irresistible, soulful cover of Blackstreet’s “No Diggity” and debut EP Thinking in Textures, Nick Murphy under the moniker Chet Faker found himself riding a viral tide of succes...
Temples to capture ’60s psychedelic rock at the Great American Music Hall
Dubbed Britain’s best new band by former Oasis’ member Noel Gallagher and set to perform at the Great American Music Hall on April 14th, Kettering-based Temples has us feeling nostalgic. Perhaps nostalgic ...
Matt Hires gets emotional on his Heartache Machine EP
Spring is here, the sun is out, and love is in the air, but Florida's Matt Hires is too familiar with the charming games that arise with spring romance.
Hires is a heartache machine and "all knows is to br...