Porcelain
PORCELAIN “Everything has changed,” sings frontman Steve Pike on “Apocalypse”, a track from Austin post-hardcore band Porcelain’s sophomore LP, Today’s Minor Victories; “Not for better but for worse.” It’s a sentiment that reflects a familiar millennial experience: comparing the world you dreamed of growing into with the constant indignities of late capitalism, the interminable imperialist […]
Ink & Dagger
INK & DAGGER From 1996 to 1999 Philadelphia’s Ink & Dagger burned like a roman candle, blurring the lines between punk, hardcore, and psychedelia, an enigma wrapped in rumors, vampire lore, and blood-spattered theatrics. Equal parts chaos and prank, their ever-shifting all-star lineup fed on the energy of others and spit it back out as something entirely […]
La Sécurité
LA SÉCURITÉ La Sécurité (Montréal/Tiohtià:ke) is a collective whose art punk is equal parts: jumpy beats, off-kilter arrangements and minimalistic melodic hooks; run through an insomniac filter, the result of excessive exposure to the city’s neon lights. The music is all about living dangerously, perfectly agreeable to being blasted onto dancefloors; while the lyrics share […]
Krill
KRILL Krill was formed in Boston in 2010, and recorded three LPs and two EPs of strange, grungy, and sometimes catchy songs before playing their final-ish show in Brooklyn in 2015. They released another album in 2020 under the name Knot, but that’s a Krill album, too, because it’s easier that way. Krill is now […]
Ceremony
CEREMONY Ceremony can’t stop. Can’t stop pushing forward. Can’t stop changing shape. Across two decades, the California-born hardcore outfit has earned its standing as one of punk’s most adaptable and unflinching bands, always ready to meet the moment without surrendering its principles. True to form, Ceremony’s seventh album, Tell Me Your Dream pushes the group’s […]
Haley Heynderickx
HALEY HEYNERICKX Following the release of her acclaimed debut I Need to Start a Garden and its long-awaited follow-up Seed of a Seed, Haley Heynderickx recently released What of Our Nature, a collaboration with Max García Conover. After a year of touring with Max and working on new material, she now returns to the road […]
Jean-Michel Blais
JEAN-MICHEL BLAIS Jean-Michel Blais was ready to make an epic. mirador, the pianist-composer’s fourth album, finds the Montrealer turning his gaze onto a wondrous world—exchanging contemporary minimalism for a light and generous maximalism. It’s an odyssey that spans choirs, strings and the music of the Andes, from Spanish caves to Estonian forests and all the […]
Jake Xerxes Fussell
JAKE XERXES FUSSELL Over six unique and very personal studio albums, Jake Xerxes Fussell has found his musical future by reimagining, reorchestrating, and reunifying the past. By combining different traditional music sources in a completely original way, he routinely creates fresh works of art that are at once rooted in tradition and ingeniously modern. “It […]
@
@ Songwriters Victoria Rose and Stone Filipczak have a pact, a devotion to each other and to the music of @. In their solo existence, Victoria works as a beekeeper and Stone as a self-taught computer programmer, but when they get together, they become a singular, avant-garde song force. The East Coast house-show circuit first […]
James Ivy
JAMES IVY James Ivy is the project of the New Jersey-born, New York-based singer-songwriter and producer James Butler. His debut album, The Seams — simultaneously an ode to and critique of stagnancy — sees Butler muddle through the doldrums of life, stripped of ego or dogma. Acting as a marked moment of pause and resistance, the project […]