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Otto Benson
OTTO BENSON Otto Benson is a musician and recording artist from Brooklyn, NY. After first gaining online recognition under his teenage alias “Memo Boy,” his sound has evolved in increasingly surreal and introspective directions, blending emotional vulnerability with experimental textures. Peanut is the first vocally-focused album from Otto Benson, known for his heartfelt and experimental […]
Mary In The Junkyard
MARY IN THE JUNKYARD mary in the junkyard — Clari Freeman-Taylor (vocals, guitar, cello, viola, violin), Saya Barbaglia (Bass, viola, violin, backing vocals) and David Addison (drums) — release the new single/video, “New Muscles,” from their debut album, Role Model Hermit, out July 3rd via AMF Records. In conjunction, they announce a North American headline […]
Nice Strong Arm
NICE STRONG ARM Nice Strong Arm is a product of the creative and welcoming counterculture of Austin, Texas, in the late 1980’s. The band found its sound playing shows with local peer upstarts like Ed Hall and opening for the underground heavyweights of the time such as Sonic Youth, Mudhoney, My Bloody Valentine, White Zombie, etc. The list is long. […]
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.