Medium Build
MEDIUM BUILD Nick Carpenter wants honesty, even when it’s uncomfortable. Under the moniker Medium Build, Carpenter finds levity in the rough edges and complications, crafting slice-of-life songs about growing up and messing up. “The worst thing a song can do is not make me feel,” Carpenter says. “I want a song to tell me too […]
Squirrel Flower (solo)
SQUIRREL FLOWER Squirrel Flower’s heart-rending sophomore album Planet (i), following her 2020 debut I Was Born Swimming, is exactly that. A singular planet, a world entirely of artist Ella Williams’ making. The title came first to her as a joke: it’s her made-up name for the new planet people will inevitably settle and destroy after […]
Ber
BER Discovering she was a songwriter came as a revelation for rising artist Ber. Turns out she’s really good at it: Her aching 2021 single “Meant to Be” went viral literally overnight, and she’s only just getting started. More recently, Ber’s song “Superspreader” is steadily accelerating thanks to pointed lyrics rooted in heartbreak and frustration, […]
High Vis
HIGH VIS Though the band were all alumni of some of the UK hardcore scene’s most celebrated groups, High Vis’s 2019 debut, No Sense No Feeling, was a record that opened its viewfinder beyond the parameters of any genre or scene. Sure, the intensity and passion of hardcore were stoking the fires, but in its […]
Model/Actriz
MODEL/ACTRIZ Dogsbody, the debut album by Brooklyn-based Model/Actriz (vocalist Cole Haden, guitarist Jack Wetmore, drummer Ruben Radlauer, and bassist Aaron Shapiro), is a coming-of-age album set between the hours of dusk and dawn. It is as much an exploration of love and loss as it is a sharp, piercing, and violent ode to the explosive […]
Kali Malone (at the First Presbyterian Church)
Pipe organ performance featuring Kali Malone’s compositions from her critically acclaimed album ’The Sacrificial Code’, a major work featuring canonic pipe organ pieces with profound emotional resonance. This performance includes additional accompaniment by Stephen O’Malley on several 4-handed organ pieces. KALI MALONE Headquartered in Stockholm, Kali Malone is an American composer and musician who creates sonic monoliths that […]
Kali Malone (at the First Presbyterian Church)
Pipe organ performance featuring Kali Malone’s compositions from her critically acclaimed album ’The Sacrificial Code’, a major work featuring canonic pipe organ pieces with profound emotional resonance. This performance includes additional accompaniment by Stephen O’Malley on several 4-handed organ pieces. KALI MALONE Headquartered in Stockholm, Kali Malone is an American composer and musician who creates […]
Kali Malone (at the First Presbyterian Church)
Pipe organ performance featuring Kali Malone’s compositions from her critically acclaimed album ’The Sacrificial Code’, a major work featuring canonic pipe organ pieces with profound emotional resonance. This performance includes additional accompaniment by Stephen O’Malley on several 4-handed organ pieces. KALI MALONE Headquartered in Stockholm, Kali Malone is an American composer and musician who creates […]
Matt Summers Bowl
Kevin Devine + The New Amsterdams (feat. Matt Pryor of The Get Up Kids)
