Peter Woodburn"I think repetition has the potential to hypnotize and envelop. That is something we are very interested in; we are always looking for the perfect loop." -- Andrew Hung
Tim VordtriedeImagine you are a sweet, lovely young lady, and you are having a dinner party. You invite your good friends Björk, Feist, and Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. When dinnertime comes, instead of serving them food, you just eat the three of them. Then...
There is something going on in Motion Turns It On’s album Kaleidoscopic Equinox. There is a lot going on. And sometimes it is almost too much to take in at once. The trio take the idea of the instrumental post-rock genre and put it on the...
Vee Hua 華婷婷"We don't want you to only like [our music] because you're supposed to like it or you like it because it's cool. I don't want you to scratch your fucking head. It should be immediate... I think [the new album] just makes our music more effective." ...
Alana RomeWhat would happen if Forever The Sickest Kids, Cartel, and A Thorn For Every Heart had a baby? They would name it And Then There Was You. As suggested by the lame birth metaphor, the pop-punk quartet from South Florida has found itself in an...
“Seethe” is my favorite adjective when it comes to describing hardcore. To seethe is to become violently agitated and excited. Not merely agitated, but violently agitated. Belgium’s Rise And Fall are seething on their new album...
Qichen Zhang“It’s the first day of spring/ And my life is starting over again,” sings Charles Fink in the title opener of The First Days Of Spring, maybe setting up an optimistic mood for the rest of the album if it weren’t for the...
Judy NelsonSurfer Blood are a weird anomaly: they hail from West Palm Beach, FL, home of Jewish grandparents and all things octogenarian, yet they make refreshingly current indie-rock. The first single from Astro Coast, “Swim,” has been all over...