Flipper
FLIPPER WITH GUEST VOCALIST MATT KORVETTE of PISSED JEANS! They came, they saw, and they conquered — sort of. Never topping the charts, nor possessing a huge following, San Francisco’s Flipper, even in the ’90s alt-rock sweepstakes, would still be considered a fringe act. But, in 1982, they were the toast of rock critics across […]
Black Eyes
BLACK EYES In the fall of 2025, more than 20 years after recording their avant-punk swan song Cough, Black Eyes returned to Dischord with Hostile Design. The album’s six all-new songs were written directly in the wake of their April 2023 reunion shows and see the quintet pushing deeper into the ominous dubscapes and feral […]
Jena Malone
JENA MALONE Jena Malone is a multi-hyphenated artist whose work spans acting, music, photography, poetry, and theatre. Malone launched her experimental musical project, Jena Malone and Her Bloodstains, opening for Deerhunter in 2008 and releasing a single through Social Registry. She is also part of The Shoe with Lem Jay Ignacio, releasing 2014 album I’m […]
Prewn
PREWN If Izzy Hagerup’s new album, System, feels immediately uncompromising it’s because it was never really designed for public consumption. Released under her Prewn moniker, Hagerup describes the album as a “private journal made public.” The arresting nine songs on System chronicle a deeply personal journey through the darkness of depression, but one that’s always […]
Greg Mendez
GREG MENDEZ Greg Mendez has always been an economical songwriter – he wields restraint and simplicity as tools, the core of his songs sharpened into simple, cutting truths. On Beauty Land, his new album and debut LP for Dead Oceans, we’re guided by a wry but forgiving narrator, an underdog who has learned to balance […]
Twisted Teens
TWISTED TEENS Twisted Teens is a band from New Orleans. Most musicians make you choose between rock and roll; Twisted Teens would never do that. Their political platform is religious psychosis; their music opens a door to a new universe by shutting all other doors to all other possible universes. Fans of Raw Power-era Stooges, […]
Case Oats
CASE OATS Casey Walker never thought she’d write an album. A novel, maybe, when she was in undergraduate school for creative writing. But music always called to her, and it wasn’t until she moved to Chicago and met a stable of musicians that she realized that recording was within reach. Walker formed Case Oats in […]
Coke Bust & Commitment
COKE BUST Coke Bust is a Washington DC hardcore band whose music draws primarily from mid-’80s European thrash, a la Heresy and Ripcord, as well as the better corners of the youth crew genre, creating a sound that brings bands such as Scholastic Deth or Betercore to mind. As an open-minded yet firmly identified straightedge […]
Los Retros
LOS RETROS Los Retros, aka Mauri Tapia, from Oxnard CA. He has been making music since his early teens, playing every instrument on his recordings. Tracing his musical inspirations to both American and Latin American left-field pop and soft rock groups from the 70s/80s, ‘Los Retros’ is an homage to Chilean pop band Los Ángeles […]
ps goner (peter sagar from homeshake)
ps goner ps goner is another musical project from Peter Sagar (aka HOMESHAKE), known for his singular blend of intimacy, atmosphere, and emotional precision. Across a constantly evolving catalogue, Sagar has followed instinct over expectation, shaping deeply personal music that resists easy categorization. His new album, there’s an atm inside, marks a clear departure into […]