This is one moment we are more than happy to answer your “Where Are They Now?” query. Michael Feerick is the singer-guitarist in U.K. shoegazers Amusement Parks on Fire, who’ve largely been silent since 2010 or so. Micah Calabrese was drummer, keyboardist and life preserver with Annie Hardy in Giant Drag. Together, they are now […]
If The xx were injected with some of Daughter’s human touches, they might sound a bit more like U.K. trio London Grammar. The group, comprised of vocalist Hannah Reid, bassist Dan Rothman and keyboard player/drummer Dot Major, brood in a similar fashion, but Reid’s love for classic pop singers such as Whitney Houston take London […]
Raw Geronimo’s debut album “Dream Fever” sounds like the sum of many dreams, only some of them feverish. The band surfaced two years ago as the vehicle for the songwriting of multi-instrumentalist and sonic adventurer Laena Geronimo, whose exploits in myriad L.A. bands of both the pop and experimental variety inform the cerebral and visceral […]
HOTT MT stands for “Hour of the Time, Majesty Twelve,” and the Los Angeles quintet is best known for its auspicious beginnings: The principals showed up unannounced on Wayne Coyne’s Oklahoma City doorstep to give him their album as a birthday present. While (surprisingly) welcoming them, he called them “weirdos,” which should tell you something. […]
For a decade or so, guitarist Mike Haliechuk and drummer Jonah Falco have played in the Toronto hardcore outfit F*cked Up, helping the band rise from scrappy undergrounders to critical darlings and Polaris Prize winners. The songs that the duo wrote outside the band have taken shape, with the help of singer Tim Westberg (of […]
As the frontman of the Broken Remotes, singer-guitarist Jonathan Leahy did indie-rock really well – the 2009 single “Boxer’s Arm” still inspires a rush of blood after these many years (and it’s easy to imagine the band’s 2006 album punked-out for today’s garage scene). These days, Leahy is opening up a different vein as Ten […]
The Happy Hollows took a little time off from the scene after their 2009 debut “Spells.” Frontwoman Sarah Negahdari even released solo material under the moniker Pisces before taking off with Silversun Pickups to fill in for bassist Nikki Monninger, but that doesn’t mean the band hasn’t had new music in the works. Last year […]
On the strength of the previously released “Word Is Bond,” “95 Til Infinity” and “Unorthdox,” 18-year-old Brooklyn rapper Joey Bada$$ continues to impress with his new mixtape “Summer Knights.” To say he possesses “the gift of gab” does little to sum up the talent and effortless flow Joey holds, as he constantly weaves rhymes full […]
Minneapolis, MN’s Dessa is a wordsmith whose pursuits include spoken word, creative non-fiction, and hip-hop. A part of the Doomtree collective, as well as on the Doomtree label, she was the valedictorian of her high school, Minneapolis Southwest, and graduated college with honors a year early with a degree in philosophy. It shows in the […]
What’s that you ask? When did teenage punk rockers the Orwells turn into a female doo-wop trio? No, the young Chicago-based quartet aren’t actually the stars in this video, but the melodies and lyrics sure do come through even when a girl group is relaying the message. There’s a morbid touch here and there, but […]
