Billie Marten’s delicate, lyrical style of indie folk matured when she was young; she impressed with her first viral music video as a preteen. Her first full album, Writing of Blues & Yellows, drew comparisons to the sound of such influential singer/songwriters as Kate Bush and Nick Drake when it arrived in 2016. An English… Read more »
Joe & the Shitboys are four queer vegan punks from the Faroe Islands. This band was formed with the intention of calling out shitty behaviour, not only in the conservative Faroe Islands where the rock scene is filled with boneless homophobes and misogynists, but in general. The band took inspiration from an artwork, found in the… Read more »
Surf Curse is the indie rock recording project of Los Angeles based songwriters Nick Rattigan and Jacob Rubeck. Seeing Surf Curse live has become a right of passage for disaffected adolescence in the South-West while Rattigan and Rubeck have spent their formatives years between Las Vegas, Reno, and Los Angeles. Their new record, Heaven Surrounds You,… Read more »
Covert contracts rule our world: manipulative relationships, encoded social norms, opaque technologies. “With a covert contract, the trick is that the agreement is only known by the person who makes it,” says Ali Carter, singer and bassist of Philly post-punk trio Control Top. “The other person is oblivious. Consent is impossible. A void of communication… Read more »
Molly moved to Nashville in 2013 after 3 years in the lush songwriting bed of Atlanta and soon discovered she could pay her bills as a singer, providing uniquely captivating harmony vocals on over 50 records in just a few years. Though she rarely performed her own songs live, her increasing number of fans and… Read more »
Sometimes, a mystical, life-changing connection can be closer than you think. In 2017, Grammy Award-winning guitarist/producer Adrian Quesada had recorded some instrumentals in his Austin studio, and he started looking around for a vocalist—he knew a lot of singers, but he wanted something different. He reached out to friends in Los Angeles, in London, but… Read more »
As Joshua Radin describes how his music career began, an image comes to mind of a horse, galloping so fast, it’s almost a blur. Its rider, meanwhile, hangs on for dear life, not sure how he wound up there, but sure as hell not about to let go. At some point, though, he figures out… Read more »
Resavoir is a collaborative project led by Chicago born composer and producer Will Miller. Their self-titled debut album was released by International Anthem in 2019. Wide acclaim for Resavoir included Pitchfork, who called it “a complex, soulful album that celebrates interconnectedness,” VICE, who called it “lush and lovely,” and ‘Best of 2019’ lists by NPR… Read more »
Since their early dancefloor 12”s on Hyperdub from 2008 and through two vocal-led albums in 2010 (‘North’) and 2013 (‘News From Nowhere’), Darkstar have been an influential force in the UK’s electronic scene. Following collaborations with the likes of Actress, Wild Beasts and Zomby they released their third album ‘Foam Island’, to critical acclaim in 2015… Read more »