Something To Talk About Vol. 2 Weekend Pass
Puffer
Shana Cleveland (of La Luz)
SHANA CLEVELAND WHO: Shana ClevelandWHAT: Manzanita (all major formats, plus streaming)RIYL: Robert Wyatt, Opal, Nilsson, Kevin Ayers and his Whole Wide World, Norma Tanega, Jessica Pratt, Julie Driscoll, Michael Nesmith, Sibylle BaierWHERE: California, USAWHEN: Mar. 10, 2023WHY: Because you need itHOW: Hardly Art RecordsWARNING: Don’t listen for the first time in public; you might cry […]
Dreamer Isioma
DREAMER ISIOMA Dreamer Isioma (they/he) their debut album, Goodnight Dreamer, arriving February 23. The out-of-this-world project from the Chicago-based Nigerian American artist centers on Dreamer, a stylish character who embarks on a multi-dimensional expedition through time and space to solve the questions they have about their existence. A kaleidoscopic journey of popular music history, the […]
Sweet Pill
SWEET PILL Philadelphia’s Sweet Pill write eruptive emo songs that embrace the edges of pop and hardcore. The kind of band whose members are fully immersed in their local scene—through a handful of notable side projects and the show-promoting Philly staple 4333 Collective—the quintet’s sound takes wide-spectrum influence from its environment. The result is an […]
Mount Eerie
MOUNT EERIE Phil Elverum is an artist and human being from the Pacific Northwest town of Anacortes. His recordings, released variously as The Microphones and Mount Eerie, represent just a portion of his artistic output, which has ranged from running a label and co-organizing festivals to self-publishing books, photography, and painting. But it is for […]
Glitterer
GLITTERER IT’S BEEN SAID BY MORE THAN ONE TERMINALLY DOUR CULTURE CRITIC THAT TO MAKE, OR EVEN CARE ABOUT, ART IN THE WAKE OF MASS ATROCITY IS CALLOUS, BARBARIC EVEN. IF THAT’S TRUE THEN WHAT ARE WE UNFORTUNATE DENIZENS OF 2020 TO MAKE OF GLITTERER’S DECEPTIVELY UPBEAT, SYNTH-INFUSED INTROSPECTIVE ROCK MUSIC, WHICH IS STILL BEING […]
Tomberlin
TOMBERLIN Tomberlin is Sarah Beth Tomberlin, a pastor’s kid born in Florida, raised in rural Illinois. She wrote the majority of her debut, At Weddings (2018), while living at home. For a while after leaving home and church, she lived in Louisville, Kentucky. She worked a day job and kept writing songs. She posted some […]
FACS
FACS Chicago trio FACS have been perfecting their brand of intense, cathartic art rock over the course of four ever-evolving albums. Beginning with 2018’s Negative Houses thru 2021’s landmark Present Tense, the trio digs deep into the gaping maw of a black hole and pulls back whatever debris they can grasp onto. Their newest LP […]
Off With Their Heads
OFF WITH THEIR HEADS For two decades now, Minneapolis born punk visionaries OFF WITH THEIR HEADS have produced unfiltered and uncompromising weirdo riot rock for fans around the world. From their breakout album, From The Bottom, to their critically revered record Home, the band has proven themselves time and time again, and ultimately found their […]
