When a ‘beep’ or a ‘boop’ is done right, it’s done right. You know what I mean? Familiarly, think “Don’t You Want Me” by The Human League. It’s instantly recogn...
May Be Fern’s debut album, Okay Grandma, Your Turn, released in mid-March, screams comfort: in themselves, their roles in the band, and most certainly their sou...
The album artwork for Sara Flows' newest project, How R U Really, is a portrait of an artist whose fingertips touch every inch of her work — all of it.
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Hard candy is frustrating. It’s sticky and gets stuck to the wrapper. You can’t chew it, but it takes too long to just lick. The texture is frustrating — one mo...
Growing up, DNA Picasso stayed away from the color blue at all costs. Red was more his speed; bold, unshaken, with flare. Blue was too closely associated with s...
An extended play (EP, for short), is a lot like a four-hundred-meter dash. It’s comparatively short compared to, let's say, a mile-long race, but in that brief ...
There is simply not enough laughter in indie rock. At face value, a genre so often associated with pain and sadness — an introspective reflection of self throug...
When was the last time you felt genuine elation listening to a record? When was the last time a few chords charmed the hell out of your eardrums? In July of thi...
Bobby Guard is unequivocally themself. A trait like individuality is so often fleeting — artists wedged between other artists in the traffic jam of widely acces...
In May 2022, John Baldwin released Change, his second studio album as a standalone multi-hyphenate. He is in full control on the record. Every string, snare, so...
Calling Slow Motion Sickness a “project” — while technically true — feels like a serious understatement. Lifelong friends turned musical partners CJ Kjolhede an...
Will Rosenthal and his guitar frequently speak to each other. They hang out at music clubs in Barcelona, in corners of bars around 16th Street and on stage at t...
