Posted 02/28/2024
Los Angeles based “Freak Americana” project, Dutch Interior, brings collaborative and earnest songwriting under a veil of classic Americana melancholy for their latest album, Blinded by Fame, the six-piece’s first release since 2021’s demo album…
Posted 02/27/2024
Short-lived but highly influential, Cap’n Jazz helped transform genres from a deeply underground punk subgenre into a more widely accepted subset of indie rock. Cap’n Jazz’s main contribution was stylistic — they helped shift emo’s…
Posted 02/23/2024
Liquid Mike is an indie power pop rock band from Marquette, MI, in the Upper Peninsula. Liquid Mike began in 2021 and is the product of Mike Maple’s pop-rock song writing. The band features a…
Posted 02/22/2024
Pastel Ghost makes immersive and danceable songs that are so beguiling, mesmerizing, and emotional that she created a new genre to talk about them. She settled on “dreamrave,” which cleanly captures the expansive and ambitious…
Posted 02/16/2024
“Exacto, de facto / Concise, quite right,” vocalist Phllip Frobos beckons on “Exacto,” the opener to Omni’s fourth album, Souvenir. Those lyrics describe exactly what it is the Atlanta trio does. Ever since their breakout…
Posted 02/14/2024
Omni Souvenir SUB POP Contrary to Yngwie Malmsteen’s operating philosophy, less truly can be more. Atlanta post-punk trio Omni implicitly live by this credo, their entire body of work defined by the sound of three…
Posted 02/14/2024
Post-punk is a disputed term. It’s never been an easily definable category of music, but occasionally a band comes along, and whether deliberately or not, thoroughly nails all perceived aesthetics of the genre. Altanta three-piece…
Posted 02/12/2024
El Mato a un Policia Motorizado is more than the big alternative band from Argentina.They’ve become the ambassadors of Latin American rock all over the world. Their songs have such an anthemic feel from the…
Posted 02/09/2024
Bodysync is an electronic duo consisting of producers Ryan Hemsworth & Giraffage. Exploring bright, carefree dance music in all varieties, Bodysync’s music is steeped in referential nods to the classics but firmly focused on pushing…
Posted 02/05/2024
Hailed as the queen of Japanese hip-hop, Awich is the living embodiment of all that makes the genre so culturally vital. Over the course of her boundary-pushing career, the Okinawa-born artist has balanced real-life storytelling…