Vee Hua 華婷婷In a feat of pure wonder, Brooklyn-based quartet Screens have managed to evade the magnetic lure of musical stagnation with their latest album, Dead House. Without adhering too closely to any one genre tag, they pull bits and pieces of influence...
Thad McKrakenThere’s been a swell of dark loud psych-prog coming out these days, which I for one couldn’t be happier about. In the last six months or so, I’ve found myself completely immersed in new discs by Lesbian, Titan, the Psychic...
Guest WritersAtelier Ciseaux this is some kind of singing music. The kind you can never really sing. The one that can fascinate the waves. Ghosts, earthquakes, vinyls, screen-printed but always. A dvd-r and tapes.
Matthew CarterMississippi Studios Portland, OR 2011 – 04/12 Cults are the prime example of a remarkable hype-driven story — of a faceless band lacking a full album, yet still manages to land a high-profile gig like Coachella. I can’t tell you...
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...
Sonia Levy’s homegrown video for Young Man (Colin Caulfield)’s “Five” captures the bittersweet blues of childhood that Young Man’s latest EP, Boy, revolve around Crystals grow and dissolve, and magic emerges and fades...
Erik BurgWith the ring of a siren and the kick of a pedal, Dumbo Gets Mad’s debut album Elephants At The Door smothers listeners in a blanket of sounds ranging from psychedelic to hip-hop. The Los Angeles by way of Italy duo came together last year and...
I knew I was woefully underprepared for the White Fang record release party at the Holocene when I was only one of two people in the crowd not wearing black. By the end of the show, however, the only dress code was no clothing. And although...