Photos by Riley Natalova / Words by Willa Rudolph On Friday, October 25th, NYC based band Whisper Doll released their debut album, Perfume Garden. Echoing the likes of […]
Alt Rock / Classic indie / NYC / power trios / riot grrrl
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That’s all right, mama: The Roulettes make triumphant return with Mommy Comes Back
Words by Jason Lee. Photos by Stephen Perry. There’s a theory on why the syllable “ma-“ and all its various variations/elongations are used around the world as the […]
Alt Pop / Alt Rock / Avant-Indie / Classic indie / Grunge / NYC / Psych Rock
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Mary Shelley let their inner pent-up theater kid shine in Audiotree Live session
Words by Jason Lee. Mary Shelley don’t just play a room. They play the room. Playing the room including all its inhabitants like an instrument. They stroke it, […]
Chicago / Classic indie
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Pick Too @ Emerald Acres (10.03.24)
Aurora-based trio Pick Too released their debut EP, “Never Grow Old”, last year and have been performing around the area perfecting their blend of Classic Rock, Indie Rock, […]
Classic indie / Indie Rock / NYC / Singer Songwriters
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Carl RN’s confessional bedroom EP “Dovish”
Photos by Alonso Estaban Ayala / Words by Willa Rudolph Singer/songwriter Carl Nelson released his debut EP Dovish last week via Endonesia under the artist name Carl RN, […]
Classic indie / NYC / power trios / Punk
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Oberlin/Portland/NYC rock ‘n’ roll vets The Roulettes spin wheel of fortune and land on “release first new music in 20 years”
Worlds by Jason Lee. Cover image and other recent photos by Stephen Perry of the Planes. Ya gotta be grateful for a band that doesn’t over-saturate the airwaves […]
Classic indie / Dreampop / Electronic / Indie Pop / NYC / Uncategorized
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Abifrail’s Gonna Catch Ya With Twinkling, Indie-Pop Sonic the Hedgehog-Inspired Single “Runnin x2”
Cover photo by Marcus Maddox / Words by Willa Rudolph New York’s own Abifrail is announcing her first big single drop for “Runnin x2,” which is a sensual […]
Chicago / Classic indie
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Conrad Merced “A Sharp One”
Conrad Merced recently released the first single, “A Sharp One“, from his forthcoming sophomore album which is due out this Fall. This is the first new music from […]
Alt Rock / Classic indie / Grunge / NYC / power trios
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Digamy digs deep and releases first-ever single after a hiatus of over a decade, reclaiming muddy roots in the process
Words by Jason Lee; Photo by Dozen Fingers Photography From the Blues Brothers (1980) to the surprisingly well-executed reboot of The Muppets (2011) and beyond, the trope of […]
Alt Pop / Classic indie / Dreampop / Indie Rock / NYC
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Ilithios soars with avian grace on second LP “Every Bird Ever,” equal parts introspective & electrifying
We have this (former) friend who a few years back was fully on board with the Birds Aren’t Real conspiracy which claims birds as a species went extinct […]
Alt Pop / Classic indie / NYC
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Chris Wills contemplates the stakes of pulling up stakes on “Ready To Go”
“It gets hard to believe in / what you can’t explainBut I’m not running / I’m ready to go” Words by Jason Lee Like yacht rock on a […]
Alt Rock / Classic indie / Grunge / NYC
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Massachusetts-based band Twig extol “Nude Beaches” (& Sweden) on surfy banger w/undercurrents of longing, wry humor
“Born in SwedenI was almostA real European” — TWIG Words below by Jason Lee First, a geography lesson. Sweden is roughly the size of California. Yet its total […]