Chastity Belt
CHASTITY BELT Live Laugh Love. It’s a phrase you might encounter in a certain type of cursive on the wall of a certain type of home. On the opposite end of the mood board, it’s also a stick-and-poke tattoo on Chastity Belt guitarist/vocalist Julia Shapiro’s left ankle (just below a highly improvised Shrek), and the […]
Home Front
HOME FRONT A distinct sound is made when freshly polished Dr. Marten boots crunch through the snow in northern Canada’s frozen tundra. When the hum of traffic is low Dr. Marten boots make a hard rhythm on the cold concrete. Welcome to HOME FRONT, a beat, a sound unique to a working class city like […]
Dave Hause
DAVE HAUSE Dave Hause’s songs have always been rooted in tangible reality—of emotion, of environment, of circumstance. Since releasing his debut album, Resolutions, in 2011, the Philadelphia-born songwriter has poured his whole heart, soul and life into his music. That’s no different on Drive It Like It’s Stolen, his sixth full-length. Its 10 songs overflow […]
Glass Beach
GLASS BEACH glass beach’s debut album the first glass beach album is the first album from glass beach. That’s a good place to start, but the album’s plain & descriptive title does little to explain what goes on in the hour-long adventure contained therein. Genreless and just as disjointed as it is cohesive, the first […]
TAGABOW & Full Body 2
TAGABOW from the pits of heaven FULL BODY 2 With Full Body 2, you are on a mission of truth. Take a journey into a virtual world where anything is possible and nothing is as it appears. Fight your way through contaminated levels of cyberspace as you take on and eliminate enemies, and unlock codes […]
Hockey Dad
HOCKEY DAD What began as something to do while there was no surf has become so much more for Zach Stephenson and Billy Fleming aka Hockey Dad. In 2013 the two, who have been friends since early childhood started jamming in their parent’s garage because there were no waves. With Zach on guitar/ vocals and […]
Frost Children
FROST CHILDREN Frost Children is the project of NYC-based siblings Lulu and Angel Prost. They’ve released multiple full-length projects since 2020 that combine and transcend genre. Flood Magazine calls them “obnoxious, self-obsessed, painfully stylish, convinced of a sense of greatness they’ve yet to earn.” MOTHER CELL Brooklyn, New York.
Koji
KOJI Indie/folk/punk singer-songwriter KOJI was born in Peixtin (Susquehannock land), or so-called Harrisburg, PA. They’ve been writing and recording music since childhood—all the while holding true to a collective and collaborative spirit throughout each of their projects. Their early releases include the split EPs IIOI/KOJI with Into It. Over It. and Never Come Undone with La Dispute (No Sleep Records). During the […]
Eliza McLamb
ELIZA MCLAMB Listening to Eliza McLamb lilt her vivid, carefully-placed lyrics rife with empathy, emotion, and sensitivity, you get the sense that this is an artist who takes her time. Her earliest releases were recorded in a laundry shed, with little else but her voice and a guitar. Now, with the help of producer Sarah […]
EKKSTACY
EKKSTACY In the eight months since the release of EKKSTACY’s aptly titled, goth and post-punk indebted sophomore record, Misery, the Vancouver-born indie star has been touring basically nonstop. Between shows and festivals across Europe and North America, including his Lollapalooza debut, EKKSTACY found time to work on a third album, the self-titled EKKSTACY, forthcoming January […]
