ML Buch
ML BUCH ML Buch is Marie Louise Buch, a Copenhagen-based composer, producer, guitarist and vocalist. Following the EP ‘Fleshy’ in 2017 she released her critically acclaimed debut album ‘Skinned’ on Danish imprint Anyines in 2020. ‘Suntub’ is her second full length release, a double album consisting of 15 tracks, which was released in October 2023 […]
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This Is Lorelei
THIS IS LORELEI In 2024 the prolific New York artist Nate Amos released his label debut Box for Buddy, Box for Star under his solo moniker This Is Lorelei. The record was critically acclaimed and received year end accolades from Rolling Stone, Billboard, GQ, Pitchfork, Stereogum, The FADER, Paste, but the album and Amos’ star […]
Sweeping Promises
SWEEPING PROMISES Sweeping Promises was born in a disused and reverberant concrete laboratory in Cambridge, MA. Tracked with a self-devised “single-mic technique” and mixed in mono, serial band-starters Lira Mondal and CauField Schnug completed their debut, Hunger for a Way Out, just in time to enter quarantine. With only a single basement show under their […]
Joe P
JOE P Joe P makes the kind of indie rock that still trusts a guitar hook to do real emotional labor. The New Jersey songwriter has written and recorded the bulk of his work in his basement studio over many late night sessions. Across Emily Can’t Sing, French Blonde, and his debut album Garden State […]
Demonstrate
DEMONSTRATE Philadelphia straight edge hard core punk. Record release show! SPEED PLANS Pittsburgh mutant idiot hardcore. FIGHTBACK Baltimore youth crew on Rebirth Records. BY ALL MEANS Minnesota hardcore on tour. JOYSTICK FURY Kutztown positive youth.
Being Dead
BEING DEAD Being Dead’s records are mosaics, technicolor incantations, each song its own self-contained little universe. Something about their music suggests it’s a dispatch from both the future and the past – vocal harmonies that sound like they’re reverberating in a medieval church to surfy guitar lines, weirdo-punky cacophonies erupting into chaos. For their sophomore […]
WU LYF
WU LYF FOR WU LYF, REFORMATION BEGAN WITHOUT CEREMONY IN IRREGULAR JAM SESSIONS HELD AT BOUND & INFINITY, AN ESOTERIC BOOKSHOP PERCHED CROWLIKE ABOVE THE REVELRY OF MANCHESTER’S INFAMOUS TIB ST. IT WAS HERE—IN THE LIMINAL SPACE BETWEEN THE CEREBRAL AND THE CARNAL— THAT TIB ST. TABERNACLE WAS CONCEIVED: A SIMMERING CRUCIBLE OF MYTHIC IMAGINATION […]
First Day Back
FIRST DAY BACK Thundering out of Santa Cruz’s thriving and resurgent music scene, First Day Back have spent their final years in college solidifying their place in the emo revival revival. Heralded as the rightful torchbearers of second wave emo, First Day Back recalls the vocal exasperation of Cap’n Jazz, the twinkle of American Football, […]
Hurry
HURRY Hurry is the Philadelphia band led by Matt Scottoline, a jangly fixture in the City of Brotherly Love since the early 2010s. Over six albums — the last four released on beloved Philly label Lame-O Records — Hurry has grown from a local cornerstone into a defining force in contemporary power pop that’s toured worldwide. […]