WILD NOTHING
DIIV
GRIMES
There is a powerful harmony in Grimes. It is a project which is both musical and visual, embodying the arts of 2D, performance, dance, video and sound. Claire Boucher weaves these together to a strong rhythmic effect, “the marriage between the voice of a human and the heartbeat of a machine” . Boucher, born in […]
FUXA
REVERENDS
TOPS
MOODRINGS
DAN DEACON
Dan Deacon is an outstanding composer. He is also a goddamned instigator. So while he made his Carnegie Hall debut this year, a few weeks later he was getting 10,000 people to do crazy dances at a massive Occupy Wall Street rally in Union Square. Deacon has always made trailblazing music that moves people to […]
R. STEVIE MOORE
One of the most difficult to categorize musicians in rock, R. Stevie Moore is a true original. Bypassing the traditional recording industry more thoroughly than just about any internationally known singer/songwriter ever has, Moore has self-released literally thousands of songs through The R. Stevie Moore Cassette Club (now online at www.rsteviemoore.com), an ongoing mail-order operation […]
BUKE AND GASE
LOUDERMILK & MOON
WHITE ARROWS
FAMILY OF THE YEAR
DEATH ANGEL
Among the youngest bands ever to storm the metal genre, Death Angel has come to be known as one of the most influential bands to emerge from the thriving Bay Area Thrash Metal Scene in the early 1980s, an era when one could catch Cliff Burton (Metallica) at the front of the stage at Ruthie’s […]
MOON DUO
HOLY WAVE
PRIMATE (members of Mastadon & Brutal Truth)
The sound: Just think raw, hardcore brutality. The overall sound comes from five guys with five different backgrounds melding it all together into a single focused beam of chaos. Kevin brings years of grind and punk into the mix from his Brutal Truth and Venomous Concept projects, but adds a little taste of the south […]
(Cancelled due to illness) SCREAMING FEMALES
Screaming Females' seven years as a band, four full-length albums and 700 globe-spanning live shows has made them difficult to miss. Through it all, the New Brunswick, New Jersey trio have continued to exude a frenetic energy which is built upon the zeitgeist of America's punk and indie underground yet has always remained forward-looking. Fittingly, […]
DARK DARK DARK
EMILY WELLS
BRONCHO
FLORIDA KILOS
BUSDRIVER
NOCANDO
COM TRUISE
POOLSIDE
HOSPITALITY
TEEN
HUNDRED WATERS
DARK ROOM
SHARON VAN ETTEN
DAMIEN JURADO
DUM DUM GIRLS
Write about what you know. That’s what they say. But that’s a lot easier said than done when what you know is very, very difficult to bear. That was the challenge Dum Dum Girls’ leader Dee Dee faced when writing the songs for the band’s moving second album Only in Dreams. “The first record was […]