Vee Hua 華婷婷Our third-annual album cover art feature uses interviews with artists and musicians to highlight the philosophical, thematic, and conceptual significance of great album cover artwork. THE BREAKDOWN 12 Collage + 14 Digital Illustration...
Judy NelsonSeptember 2012 In this music video for “Endless Summer”, grit, dirt, and color intermix to play hokey pokey with minorly morbid imagery, mundane shots, and glitter. May 2011 When it comes to the genre of “garage rock,” most...
We’ve traveled around the world, in a sense, releasing sounds from international artists. Since we never stuck to one genre over another, our artists not only span the globe but span sonic styles and approaches.
This groovy YAWN video somehow has 11.2K views and probably doesn’t need our journalistic help whatsoever, buuuuut it needs to be written about anyway. For starters, the video tells you to: “give into the trance,” to “not be...
Listening to Scattered Trees’ latest album, Sympathy, has been a curious experience for me. The same disc, under different settings and different circumstances, has been at times nerve-wracking and at times wonderful.
Now the obvious critique I’m sure most people would offer in regards to a band like Chicago’s Secret Colours would be: lack of originality, plain and simple. But since this is tasty psych/garage stuff, I’m not even going to waste...
Chicago artists JT And The Clouds make a brand of folk and Americana-influenced indie rock that really hits sometimes. They recently released a live video of them performing “Low July”, and everything about it is fantastic — the...
Sounding sharper and more focused (dare one even say “concise”!) Pelican offer up their fourth long player, What We All Come To Need, their second for venerable heavy label Southern Lord. While its predecessor, City Of Echoes, featured...