Starcrawler—Greetings from Los Angeles Dan Alleva October 23, 2019 Features, Interviews While out on the road supporting The Distillers this past May, somewhere in the heart of the Motor City, Starcrawler’s lead vocalist Arrow de Wilde is crouched up in a ball at the edge of the stage, purring in...
DIIV—Upfront and Extremely Personal Katherine Yeske Taylor October 23, 2019 Buzz, Features 1 During a call from Los Angeles, where the members of DIIV all live, singer/guitarist Zachary Cole Smith, guitarist Andrew Bailey, and bassist Colin Caulfield, are open and honest about the potentially sensitiv...
Charli XCX—Innovative, Introspective, and Iconic Debra Kate Schafer October 16, 2019 Features, Interviews When the now 27-year-old Charlotte Aitchison, better known as Charli XCX, decided to take a break and not jump straight into a third album, that didn’t mean that she was going to stop making music altogether. ...
Altin Gün—Golden Psychedelic Fusion Katherine Yeske Taylor October 16, 2019 Features, Interviews It’s hard to find a musical niche that hasn’t been explored yet, but Altin Gün seem to have pulled it off: based in The Netherlands, they exclusively play Turkish music—either traditional material that can be ...
The Head and the Heart—Like a Desert Mirage Dan Alleva October 2, 2019 Features, Interviews After a busy touring schedule in 2018, Seattle’s The Head and the Heart found themselves in a unique position once they began to get to work on their next LP. For starters, they were down two founding, integra...
Melvins—Unusual Is Better Gregg McQueen October 2, 2019 Buzz, Features The Melvins hail from the small town of Montesano, Washington, but it’s not hard to envision them being spawned from an ancient tar pit instead, emerging from the bubbly ooze, instruments in hand, ready to sla...
White Denim—Feeling the Side Effects Dan Alleva October 2, 2019 Features, Interviews Erudite students of everything from The Minutemen to Yes, the members of White Denim are true record collectors at heart, soaking up sounds from every corner of the musical spectrum, and ameliorating the juxta...
Mudhoney—Replaced by Nothing Dan Alleva September 25, 2019 Features, Interviews With their 2018 LP Digital Garbage, and their new EP Morning in America, Mudhoney are back, offering up musical reflections on the dangerously bizarre political discourse happening in the United States today, ...
Richie Ramone—Too Tough to Die Dan Alleva September 11, 2019 Features, Interviews Born Richard Reinhardt in Passaic, New Jersey in 1957, drummer Richie Ramone joined the Ramones in 1983, during a time in which the group was struggling to find its footing in the post-punk and pre-grunge eigh...
Lloyd Cole—It’s Complicated Rey Roldan September 11, 2019 Features, Interviews While Guesswork is the name of his new album, it also describes what it’s like interviewing Lloyd Cole, one of the original indie darlings. Long before Bon Iver, Sufjan Stevens and Father John Mist...
