LESLIE & THE LY’S
Leslie & the LY's is a pop music band from Ames, Iowa that began as an open mike trio in 2004. Leslie & the LY's is made up of front-woman Leslie Hall, also known as Mother Gem, who composes all of the music herself generally using the Apple Computer program GarageBand. Other past and present […]
HOSPITALITY
The first thing you might notice about Hospitality’s sophomore album Trouble is what you don’t hear. The process of completing Trouble was, for the band, one of learning to accept silence, to let that empty space exist no matter what it might awaken or evoke. You could catch glimpses of these dark and unexplored places […]
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JUSTIN WILLMAN
The Los Angeles Times calls Justin Willman, “a new breed of magician who’s making magic cool again for grown-ups.” From his monthly sell-out shows in the back of a trendy LA comic book shop to huge theaters and music venues across the country, Justin has become one of the busiest touring performers in America. His […]
ROBERT ELLIS
T. HARDY MORRIS
ICE BALLOONS (ft. Kyp Malone of TV on the Radio)
Brooklyn based Ice Balloons’s eight-song debut EP came out in October of 2013, featuring the track Night Slave, that had a video release on Vice/Noisey the following month. The band is a hodgepodge of musicians - Sean Powell (Fuckemos), Kyp Malone (TV on the Radio), Dan Scinta, Rob Bryn (Wild Yaks) Giselle Reiber (Midnight Masses), […]
DARK SISTER
SPEAKERFOXXX
HELLO OCHO
TURBO FRUITS
WEEKEND
NOTHING
BLACK LIPS
DEERHUNTER
COM TRUISE
Com Truise is one of the many personas of producer and designer Seth Haley, born and raised in upstate New York and operating out of a 12’-overrun apartment in Princeton, New Jersey. An admitted synth obsessive, Com Truise is the maker of an experimental and bottom heavy style he calls “mid-fi synth-wave, slow-motion funk”. Haley’s […]
ST. VINCENT
It starts with the creation myth: St. Vincent, naked and alone in the wilderness, startled as the ominous rattle of a snake breaks the silence of her Eden. She realizes she's not alone in the world and breaks into a run, headed towards the uncertainty of the future. It's a lovely and appropriate metaphor to […]
NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND: GUERILLA TOSS
PSYCHIC TEENS
EX HEX (Mary Timony of Helium & Wild Flag)
Ex Hex is the new project and power trio from Mary Timony of Helium and Wild Flag. Ex Hex will release their debut album in 2014 on Merge Records, and a tour is in the works including the SXSW Festival in March. Citing glammy influences like Sweeney Todd and Roxy Music, Timony described in a […]
CEREBRAL BALLZY
IRON REAGAN
THE PIZZA UNDERGROUND (feat. Macaulay Culkin)
Over the last several days, the Internet has been fixated upon the Pizza Underground, a New York City band that plays Velvet Underground covers with pizza-themed song titles and lyrics. An initial hook to this pie-based news was that Macaulay Culkin plays kazoo and vocals. Little is known about the band, except that, according to […]
DUM DUM GIRLS
End Of Daze had for me signaled exactly that; an end to a part of my life that was confused, difficult, disastrous, and at times, redemptive. It was a marked comment to myself, for future reference, that what will be, will be, and that there is always exciting work to be done ahead. It is […]
Red Bull Sound Select Presents: POWER TRIP
Formed in early 2008, Power Trip draw from the sacred texts of classic hardcore, punk, and metal. After the success of their self-titled Lockin’ Out 7”, Power Trip has unleashed their debut LP MANIFEST DECIMATION, out now via Southern Lord Records. Surging with a modernized translation of the works of mandatory crossover pioneers Nuclear Assault, […]
WAXAHATCHEE
Katie Crutchfield is a natural at writing confessional pop songs. Since picking up the guitar as a teenager she has spent the better part of her young adult life travelling the country to play basement shows for feminist punks with bands like P.S. Eliot, Bad Banana and The Ackleys, all of which she sang for. […]
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