Ride Weather Diaries Wichita Recordings On Ride’s first album in over 20 years, they shine with a new, yet unmistakably familiar, light. For a lot of the youngsters out there, you may not have the slightest clue who Ride is. The band was formed in 1988 in Oxford, England and [...]
PUPPETS, APPS & HORROR MOVIES AN INTERVIEW WITH HUMANS Robbie and Peter of Vancouver, BC started their project HUMANS in 2008. Since then, the duo has been very busy, touring, signing with Mom+Pop Records, collaborating with The Roots, scoring films, and even developing [...]
Hazel English Just Give In/Never Going Home Polyvinyl When you first hear Hazel English’s music kick in, you might guess that Beach Fossils, Wild Nothing or Day Wave just came on. English, the Sydney, Australia born artist, now resides in Oakland, CA where she met Jackson [...]
Future Islands The Far Field 4AD The Far Field is Future Islands 5th record, but it’s the first that they know will be released to eager fans. Their previous album, Singles, came out in 2014 without a label but gained them a performance on David Letterman’s Late Night show. It [...]
Andy Shauf & Aldous Harding @ The Regent, Los Angeles March 21, 2017 Shortly after his sold-out show at The Echo, Andy Shauf returned to Los Angeles to woo a packed house at The Regent. Shauf’s most recent album has picked up a lot of traction for the Canadian [...]
Elliott Smith Either/Or (Expanded Edition) Kill Rock Stars Elliott Smith’s classic 1997 album, Either/Or, is widely regarded as his most notable work. To commemorate the 20th Anniversary of its release, Kill Rock Stars has been kind enough to re-master and expand a reissue. [...]
THE ART OF MASTERING A CONVERSATION WITH JOHN GREENHAM “Say you have a bunch of paintings but they are just lying around in different parts of the room so no one can enjoy them.” John Greenham begins as we sit down. “The mastering process would be like framing them and hanging [...]
Lusine Sensorimotor Ghostly International Lusine, which translates from Armenian to English as “moon,” is the stage moniker of Seattle transplant and IDM producer, Jeff McIlwain. In his fourth full length with Ghostly International, McIlwain takes a small step from his [...]
Disquiet Compilation Volume 1 Unseen Music Out today (February 17th, 2017) is a benefit compilation of ambient artists curated by Keith Kennif and his wife, Hollie. Keith releases music under the monikers Helios & Goldmund, and his wife collaborates with him to form Mint [...]
Animal Collective The Painters EP Domino Records Animal Collective have always been able to be pleasantly weird and make great music while not taking themselves too seriously. If you put these gentlemen in the water they’ll probably turn blue. Throw them in a room full of [...]
Thievery Corporation Temple Of I & I ESL Records Rob Garza and Eric Hilton of Thievery Corporation have never been signed to a major label. They’ve never had a major radio hit or topped the charts, yet they’ve managed to make music for 20 years, sell out huge venues, [...]
THEMES FOR DYING EARTH AN INTERVIEW WITH TEEN DAZE Vancouver’s Teen Daze arose out of the music blog craze in 2010. After 7 years, some travel, a lot of evolution, maturing and newfound experiences, Jamison has found a steady balance of life, work, and a side of his music that [...]
Surfer Blood Snowdonia Joyful Noise Recordings Surfer Blood’s fourth studio album Snowdonia is out via Joyful Noise Records. Ironically, this is a band whose name just makes all too much sense. They are quintessentially Surf Rock and their career has had an undertone of [...]
Aquaserge Laisse Ça Être Crammed Discs Aquaserge is a fun and experimental pop super group. Its members have graced the stages with dreamy indie connoisseurs like Tame Impala, Stereolab, Melody’s Echo Chamber, Acid Mothers Temple, and Aksak Maboul. For several years, they [...]
MUNA w/ Lo Moon @ Teragram Ballroom, Los Angeles February 1, 2017 Do you remember when you went to see a band that you knew almost nothing about? Do you remember when their live performance blew you away, and you knew that you had just become a major fan for life? This has [...]
STILL CHASING THE FIRE INSIDE AN INTERVIEW WITH HUNTER BURGAN OF AFI Burials came out in 2013 and quickly became the #3 album in the US. During the following year, AFI toured extensively, and then laid low for most of 2015 for some much needed rest and relaxation. When they [...]
Austra Future Politics Pink Fizz Records Kate Stelmanis and her main counterpart, Maya Postepski, are Austra: the electronic music producers from Ontario, Canada. The release of their third studio album, Future Politics, is the most ambitious to date. Not falling far from the [...]
Colony House Only The Lonely RCA With a brand new release for 2017, Colony House has already been claimed one of Entertainment Weekly’s “Bands That Will Rule in 2017”. Brothers Will and Caleb Chapman are the sons of the well-known Christian Pop musician, Steven Curtis Chapman. [...]
SOHN Rennen 4AD Rennen came out via 4AD on January 13th, 2017. Christopher Michael Taylor, aka SOHN, (translated in German as “run”) felt like he had been running, both physically and emotionally, for the past two years. In the wake of his 2014 debut, Tremors, Taylor had fans [...]
Bonobo Migration Ninja Tune Are you stuck inside, gazing out the window at the pouring rain? Is a green sunset falling gently over the horizon? Are you lying down in a calm, breezy meadow, while the distant hum of a running creek and bird songs fill the air? If not, no [...]
