Category: New Music
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War Honey Release Critically-Acclaimed EP ‘Shard to Shatter’ on Vinyl
War Honey, the multi-hyphenate five-piece band from Brooklyn, have blown every other promising young band out of the water with their debut EP Shard to Shatter, and their most recent single “Skinless,” a rumination on the past, present, and future blurring together as a result of the mind-numbing monotony of the pandemic. Shard to Shatter […]
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Atlantic Canyons Navigates Personal Growth on ‘See The Hue’
Last month, New Hampshire-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Andrea Levesque unveiled her latest EP, See The Hue, under the name Atlantic Canyons. Recorded with session musicians who Levesque met in online chatrooms, the project is a collection of creepily enchanting psalms with rippling synths on tracks like “Sorry,” and “At Sea,” as well as cavernous string-layered […]
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Stice Unleash Absurdist Hedonism on ‘Stice’s Satyricon’
Helmed by lead vocalist and lyricist Caroline “Crab” Bennet and producer and multi-instrumentalist Jake “Jark” Lichter, digital hardcore dance punk duo Stice require no introduction. Dubbing themselves “dial-up netscape nightmare fodder” and “zolo-horrorcore for the TikTok generation,” the duo rapidly accumulated a cult following in 2019, combining the abrasive fever-dream production stylings of Machine Girl […]
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‘I Want the Door to Open:’ Lala Lala’s Artistic Victory Lap
Listening to the latest album by Lala Lala–the brainchild of Chicago-based indie rocker Lillie West–is like listening to a once-cynical adult reverting back to their childlike wonder and learning to play again. It’s a manic trip of bombastic synth-infused ballads that transports the listener to another dimension, with lyrics that traverse tragedy, mortality, and joy […]
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KEANA Relinquishes Emotional Stagnation with “Teardrops”
If Alison Goldfrapp and Portishead conceived a baby while Björk watched, the end product would no doubt be rising dream pop virtuoso KEANA. Based in Los Angeles, KEANA is best known for her delicately fluid and imaginative universe of trip hop and electronic ambience; a crystalline dream sequence-like universe she carefully crafted as the sole […]
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Chatting with Alex Sepassi of Silver Relics About Their New Single, Distant Planets, & Trent Reznor
Blending elements of ‘60s British classic rock, post punk, grunge, and psychedelia, New York-based art-rock outfit Silver Relics have never been the type of group to paint themselves into a corner. Silver Relics was formed in 2017 by Alex Sepassi and the group’s former drummer Justin Alvis. Sepassi started singing and writing songs at the […]
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A Chat with Zoe Zobrist About Classic Rock, Starting a Band at 13, and Motherhood
Hailing from Dallas, Texas, alternative rocker Zoe Zobrist has already cemented herself as a music industry veteran at just 23 years old. Raised on classic rock records and Laurel Canyon desert-folk, she started playing piano as soon as she could walk and began writing songs at the age of seven before many children have learned […]
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Lily Arminda Talks New EP “DTR (Define the Relationship)”
Lily Arminda is making the type of endearing indie pop that enfolds the listener in an atmosphere of soft pink lighting and black lipstick as she spills her innermost secrets over darkly serenading dreampop instrumentation. Proclaiming herself as a “soft-spoken songstress” early in her career, Arminda migrated from making intimate folk songs on her first […]
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Amyl and the Sniffers Strike Gold on Sophomore Album “Comfort to Me”
With their raw energy and vibrantly humorous and introspective lyrics, Aussie rockers Amyl and the Sniffers have always put their own exciting spin on multiple pastiches of early hard rock, punk, and riot grrrl, which was on full display with their 2019 self-titled debut. Now, the group is back with an even stronger follow-up, Comfort […]
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Chatting with Guyville About Their New Single, Beatles Songbooks, and Liz Phair
Upon first meeting each other at a writing session and instantly clicking over their shared love of music, Kat Hamilton and Emily Huslander of the LA-based country rock duo Guyville immediately knew that they would be working together for a while. Taking their name from the iconic 1993 Liz Phair album Exile in Guyville, the duo […]