You’ve Got Song: How Emerging Duo Stolen Jars Wrote an Album via Email
As long as they have WiFi, Stolen Jars can continue crafting their sharp indie pop indefinitely. Dropbox and emails are how Cody Fitzgerald and Molly Grund collaborate while living in separate states,...
View ArticleBrooklyn Is Berning: Bernie Sanders Scores Support From the Indie Music...
The 2016 Presidential race is heating up, and New Yorkers are beginning to “feel the Bern.” The pun-worthiest of Democratic candidates, Senator Bernie Sanders, is in the city this week, and his goal is...
View ArticleHow Did Mass Gothic Turn New York City Into a Karaoke Bar?
Noel Heroux is taking a break. Not from music, although his long-running band Hooray for Earth dissolved last year. Instead, he's walking away from working against his own artistic grain. After...
View ArticleCan Animal Collective Still Surprise Their Fans?
Some fifteen years after they spent a summer tinkering with vintage synths and household detritus-turned-percussion-instruments in Dave Portner’s Prince Street apartment, Animal Collective dove into a...
View ArticleExclusive Premiere: Glassio Dole Out Synthpop Shimmer on 'Poptimism' EP
Brooklyn duo Glassio started, like so many Brooklyn bands, when its members met at NYU. Surveying a landscape full of lo-fi bedroom musings, Charlie Pinel and Sam Radseresht turned around and...
View ArticleLife Is but a Dream for Brooke Waggoner on 'Sweven'
Sweven — pronounced like "heaven," not "Steven" — is, to quote the Merriam Webster’s Dictionary, a “Middle English noun meaning sleep, dream, or vision.” The word is derived from Old English and was...
View ArticleRecipe for Disaster: Blood, Oranges, and a Dev Hynes–Inspired Cake
Save for Kendrick, Stevie, and Alabama Shakes (and honestly that Gwen Stefani live music video situation, which I've found myself rewatching over and over in an attempt to crack just how they pulled it...
View ArticleBedroom Sounds: Making Music With Space Heaters
Hallie Bateman and Josephine Livingstone, the duo behind the experimental outfit Space Heaters, met first on purpose, and then by accident. Bateman, an artist and illustrator currently based in Los...
View Article'Black Shoegaze' Outfit The Veldt: 'We're Just Having People...
People who call something art for art's sake often mean it as a slur. Sometimes, the target deserves the abuse — New York's underground scenes are crawling with precious wannabes, folks who seem always...
View ArticleHumeysha Explore Migration and Longing in 'For Love, From the Law'
The video opens with a drawing of an Indian woman, and Zain Alam sitting on a grass-covered hexagon in the middle of a white room, wearing all white and surrounded by bright green foliage. First he’s...
View ArticleAriel Alexis Brings Her Gentle Folk-Pop Sound to Bushwick
Twenty-three-year-old Ariel Alexis is a multi-hyphenate. Hearing her breeze through her projects, past and present, feels like being in a speeding car: She appeared in a Lifetime movie in 2013; she's a...
View ArticleIn Pursuit of Gender Equality and Good Music, Madame Gandhi Rages Against the...
Musicians with degrees are not a new concept; it’s smart to have something to fall back on. But Kiran Gandhi’s Harvard MBA wasn’t a plan B or a day job; it was part of a calculated plan to reform a...
View ArticleHow Paul de Jong Found Reinvention in His Archive of Sound
Every day, Paul de Jong sketches. Whether it's pen to paper, bow to string, or trackpad to snippet of obsolete media, he spends most of his waking hours improvising his way toward epiphany. "I am an...
View ArticleCar Seat Headrest's Will Toledo Strives for a Higher Plane
Will Toledo, the 24-year-old Bandcamp whiz kid and frontman of Car Seat Headrest, has gone from self-recording and -releasing nearly a dozen lo-fi albums to being signed to Matador (the record label of...
View ArticleGirlpool Take Their Introspective Music to the Masses
Girlpool's two members have a talent for transforming any stage they occupy into their own private world. At quiet moments in their performances, when bassist Harmony Tividad and guitarist Cleo Tucker...
View ArticleAriana Delawari's Dreamy Fight Songs Get Double Treatment
Ariana Delawari draws energy from dichotomy: She splits her inspiration between the cinematic oasis of Hollywood and the sandy streets of Kabul. Raised in Los Angeles but well traveled in Afghanistan,...
View ArticleExclusive Premiere: Watch Gryphon Rue's Trippy Benton C Bainbridge-Directed...
NYC native Gryphon Rue dropped his first single, "Google Portrait," earlier this year, and today we're excited to exclusively share the video, by Bronx-based video artist and music video director...
View ArticleCraig Finn Brings His Barroom Balladry Back Home To New York
Craig Finn is a rarefied American rock stalwart for his hoarse sing-speak as the leader of the ultimate meta-bar band the Hold Steady, but even moreso for his writing, his eye for characters named...
View ArticleWith "This Old Dog," Mac DeMarco Shows You Can Teach an Indie-Rocker New Tricks
Mac DeMarco, the Canadian singer-songwriter and current Los Angeles resident, is the latest iteration of an endearing archetype. Picture the best friend in a mumblecore movie, offering casual...
View ArticlePWR to the PPL: The Guitar-Shredding, Gender-Fluid World of PWR BTTM
Everywhere Liv Bruce and Ben Hopkins take a step transforms into a scene. It's a chilly spring day at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in Prospect Park, and the two of them — the duo that is New York punk...
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