RECAP: Governors Ball 2019, May 31 – June 2 / Randall’s Island Park, NYC Veronica Rajadnya July 3, 2019 Concerts, Reviews For nine years, Governors Ball has been a main New York music event for the ages, for all ages, offering expensive headliners and increasingly up-and-coming acts of many genres poised to please Gen Z, their pa... Read More...
The National: Easy to Find Veronica Rajadnya June 5, 2019 Features, Interviews From his home on Long Island, Scott Devendorf of The National lists off a playlist he’s made of some of the bands he’s been listening to: Shame, described was “sort of a weird, British Fugazi,” Mac DeMarco, an... Read More...
Lotus: Brooklyn Bowl, April 6, 2019 Veronica Rajadnya May 29, 2019 Concerts, Reviews There’s something special about seeing a band from the city you currently call home in the city that you once called home. When the band is Philadelphia’s post-everything powerhouse quintet Lotus—closing out a... Read More...
goldenSpiral—Vibes by Design Veronica Rajadnya March 13, 2019 Buzz By his own admission, Philadelphia producer and visual artist Adrian Palashevsky, aka goldenSpiral, eased his way into 2019. “The first couple weeks of this year I’ve spent decompressing,” says Palashevsky. “My... Read More...
Buzz: Tweed—Moving Up the Mountain Veronica Rajadnya March 13, 2019 Buzz Tweed is the independent funktronica outfit taking its place among the modern jam band greats. Born of an affinity for Philadelphia phenoms the Disco Biscuits, Lotus, and Brothers Past (then-University of Delaw... Read More...
Tweed: Philly’s Tweed Gets Dirty And Disco In Video Premiere Veronica Rajadnya September 26, 2018 Buzz, Features Philadelphia's funk powerhouse quartet Tweed have released the first single and music video from their highly anticipated full-length album, Moves. The track, "El Sucio Grande", translated from Spanish, ... Read More...
Tweed – SENSORiUM Music & Arts Festival: What You Need to Know Veronica Rajadnya August 15, 2018 Features, Interviews Philadelphia’s Premier Extra-Sensory Experience Takes Over the Ukie Club with 23 Artists on Three Stages Do you feel that? It’s your psyche senses tingling: SENSORiUM Music &... Read More...
Agent Zero Returns to the Mountain: “Visionary Sound” at Camp Bisco XVI Veronica Rajadnya July 11, 2018 Features, Interviews Philadelphia’s premier post-EDM outfit Agent Zero takes its transcendent psychrock to Camp Bisco, the pinnacle summer festival July 12-14 at Montage Mountain in Scranton, Pa. Set to share bops off the la... Read More...
Diet Cig: Don’t Tell Me to Calm Down Veronica Rajadnya February 28, 2018 Features, Interviews Diet Cig is the pop punk duo out of New Paltz, NY consisting of “two homies just making tunes and eggs on the regs,” which is self-described via Bandcamp and also accurate. Born out of house show basemen... Read More...
Agent Zero: Music That Moves You Veronica Rajadnya February 14, 2018 Features, Interviews It’s a balmy 60 degrees in the middle of a mostly frigid, tri-state winter on the day of my interview with Agent Zero, the Philadelphia-cultivated electronic ensemble juxtaposing intelligent dance music ... Read More...
