Vee Hua 華婷婷With their homemade press kit, Forks and Knives seem like a band with DIY roots right off the bat. But unlike many bands that throw together a press kit, write a personal note, and call that enough, Forks and Knives manage to come off as...
Emily ScottHeavy Feather’s debut album sounds like a work in progress. Although the members of Heavy Feather clearly have experience, made obvious by their musical abilities, there’s a general lack of cohesion throughout the album. It seems like...
In the first few moments of listening to Sugarplum Fairies’ Chinese Leftovers, the influences of Mazzy Star, Belle and Sebastian and Cowboy Junkies are unmistakable. Though the vocals of Silvia Ryder aren’t exactly sultry, they have a...
Ryan Pangilinan"A vanity label is just a logo. You have to look at what's behind that. Who are the players on that team who are pushing the product?" -- Joe McAffrey
Karla Hernandez"What I want to have is different people to come together -- [to have] different styles and fashions to come together and feel the music itself... That's my ultimate happiness." -- Richard Spitzer
Peter WoodburnExploding Head, the second album from New York City trio, A Place to Bury Strangers, may just be the most fitting album title of the year… because the album does exactly that. Picking up where their self-titled debut album finished, Exploding...
The world of hardcore now seems to be dividing into a couple of different camps that can largely be identified by whatever record label is releasing an album. In the case of Reign Supreme’s debut, Testing the Limits of Infinity, Deathwish Inc...
Leah JorgensenFrom the looks of the album cover, I thought this was going to be another folk-hippie band, but Asheville, North Carolina’s stephaniesid does not fall under that category. Labeled as an Indie-pop band, stephaniesid likes to think their sound...