AUDACITY

When Fullerton, California’s brash quartet Audacity first started churning out EPs and ripping up basements, it was hard to not get swept up in their adolescent exuberance. When a band […]

TACOCAT

Boyfriends

KRAUS JOHANN GROBE

After the one-two punch release of a head-turning limited 10-inch EP in 2013, followed by an equally mezmerizing 7-inch (the “Traumhaft” single, reissued by TiM in Feb of ‘14), Swiss […]

LA LUZ

Massenger

BOULEVARDS (captured tracks) w/ Fantasy Guys+ more

Jamil Rashad, a/k/a Boulevards, is the embodiment of funk. Taking queues from pioneers such as Prince, Rick James, and Earth Wind & Fire, Boulevards seamlessly delivers cheeky, party-themed jams that range from raw and risqué to soulful on his debut LP Groove! From an early age, Jamil’s father, a R&B Radio DJ, exposed him to […]

SPEEDY ORTIZ

Attention came swiftly following Speedy Ortiz’s 2012 Sports EP on the Boston-centric label Exploding In Sound, and with good reason. Massachusetts-based songwriter/guitarist Sadie Dupuis’ knotty, lyrically dense songs were fully realized by her bandmates, with intricate guitar lines crisscrossing over Darl Ferm’s fluid bass and Mike Falcone’s precisely executed drumming in a way that was […]

MODERN ENGLISH – SOLD OUT

Modern English are an English rock band best remembered for their songs "I Melt with You," "Hands Across the Sea," "Someone's Calling," and "Ink and Paper". In 2016 they're returning […]

MODERN ENGLISH

BRITISH NEW WAVE/POST-PUNK INNOVATORS, MODERN ENGLISH, RETURN TO THE US IN MAY TO PERFORM DEBUT RECORD, “MESH & LACE”, FOR THE FIRST TIME After reuniting in 2009 and a successful […]

DIIV

The Paranoyds

SCROLL DOWNERS

It’s a bummer that Baltimore noise-punks Dope Body have called it quits, but there’s a silver lining: the floodgates have already opened for the members’ many other projects. Just this […]