For years, Lukas Frank, the artist at the center of Storefront Church, has been quietly honing his craft. As a musician, he’s played with artists across genres, spending time as the drummer in a multitude of projects, most notably in Phoebe Bridgers’ band. The two even collaborated on one of Frank’s solo songs, “Shame,” which… Read more »
The world is brutal but there are cherry trees in blossom. This is the philosophy that underpins Yorkshire-born art-punk tearaways DEADLETTER. With members being friends from birth, there is an instinctive understanding of rhythm and danceability running through the group, which does nothing to take away from their obsession with frenetic energy and levity-grounded narrative… Read more »
What the hell is Broadside Hacks? Is it a band? Is it a label? Is it a club? Is it a promoter? It’s all of those things. Simplest to call it a collective, reckons Campbell Baum, its founder. Simplest, as a listener, just to accept Broadside Hacks as a mark of something interesting, of a… Read more »
Deeply informed by both the imaginative sound waves of the cosmos as well as the earthly musical culture of Japan, Mount Matsu is the reflection of a chaotic environment of influences slowly coming into focus. Infectious, strangely harmonious and highly energetic, the record is also the first by the band that came into being as… Read more »
Bingo Fury conjures a glitzy – altogether seedy – Broadway sheen. Although very much a solo songwriter, Bingo’s compositional process relies on contributions from his entire band – bassist Megan Jenkins, and drummer Henry Terrett have been playing together since their teens. In one of their various incarnations, they recruited local avant-jazz legend, cornet player… Read more »
Flora Cash, an inspiring musical duo comprising Shpresa Lleshaj, originally from Kosovo, and Cole Randall from Minneapolis, represents a remarkable odyssey of love, resilience, and artistic triumph over adversity. Their tale harmoniously combines two distinctive lives: Lleshaj’s childhood was disrupted when her family was forced to flee Kosovo for Sweden due to war, where she… Read more »
Bearing witness to the accelerating negativity of global affairs, UK reggae legends, Steel Pulse, emerge with musical vengeance to halt the disarray of humanity. Their latest, Grammy Award nominated album, Mass Manipulation was released in 2019, and it reflects four decades of bettering mankind through music. The debut single “Stop You Coming And Come” features… Read more »
With Happy Hour, her ravishing new LP, Hollie Cook matures into the queen of modern-day “lovers rock”—the lush girly harmony reggae style beloved in Britain since the 1970s. Evolution rings from the bittersweet opening title track; tender yet assertive, Hollie’s voice caresses evocative lyrics through the arrangement’s tumbling changes.
H.Hawkline is a multi-instrumentalist and critically acclaimed solo artist from Cardiff, Wales. The fluidity with which he can translate music into art and art into music is effortless. Paintings touch like poems, songs resonate like structures and his melodies sit like memories. Small wonder he has become a sought-after musician and artist playing for the… Read more »
Princess Goes, the buzzy band led by the charismatic showmanship and signature voice of vocalist, lyricist, musician and actor Michael C. Hall (Dexter, Six Feet Under, Lazarus) alongside keyboardist Matt Katz-Bohen (Blondie, Cyndi Lauper) and drummer Peter Yanowitz (The Wallflowers, Morningwood) earned critical acclaim for their self-titled EP and debut album THANKS FOR COMING, crafting a sound all their own that vividly comes to life on stage… Read more »