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From Ghost Stories to the Present Tense: Peering Into Phantasia
From the candlelit shadows of their 2019 demo cassette to the haunted pop reveries of 2022's debut LP Ghost Stories , New York City's...
Joe Massaro
Aug 25, 2025
Brower: "I'm Always Coming up With Hairbrained Schemes To Release Things Unconventionally"
After cooking up Flour —his long-awaited second LP that slow-baked over several years in makeshift Brooklyn practice spaces—Nat Brower is...
Joe Massaro
Jul 18, 2025
Loose Lips: "I Feel We Are Always on the Same Wavelength When It Comes to How It Should Sound and the Image of the Band"
Across their debut album Last Laugh (DIG! Records), Melbourne's Loose Lips waste no time delivering ten tracks of late-night,...
Joe Massaro
Jul 11, 2025
Kathy Snax: "Don't Lament Your Musical Limitations; Work Within Them! Constraints Can Be Empowering and Even Give You Direction"
Kathy Snax's new EP Shangri-La is a shimmering, synth-forward journey through emotional ambiguity, memory, and the elusive nature of...
Joe Massaro
May 30, 2025
Alien Nosejob: "It's a Little Bit of Everything and a Whole Lot of Nothing, Something for Everybody, Nothing for Most"
Over the last decade, Jake Robertson has quietly built one of the most varied and compelling catalogs in underground music. Best known...
Joe Massaro
May 14, 2025
Jett Witchalls of Self Improvement: "I Have a Deep Fear of the White Picket Fence"
On their sophomore album Syndrome , Long Beach's Self Improvement confront the chaos of the present with their tightly wound, politically...
Joe Massaro
May 13, 2025
In The Red Records' Larry Hardy: "I Plan To Do Less, at Least for Right Now. I'm Trying To Get Through What I've Committed To Doing. That Was Enough. I'm Checking off the List." (Part Four)
Larry Hardy is the founder and owner of In the Red Records (ITR). For the past 34 years, ITR has been one of the leading independent...
Ryan Leach
May 9, 2025
Enduring 'Panther Phobia' at 25: The Oral History of the Brilliant Panther Burns LP Tav Falco Wants You To Forget
Larry Hardy (In The Red Records): Panther Phobia is a release I’m particularly proud of. I’m abundantly aware that Tav doesn’t feel the...
Chris Alpert Coyle
May 8, 2025
Artificial Go: "'Hopscotch Fever' Was Mostly Visiting Old Demos. 'Musical Chairs' Was a Turning Point of Writing New Songs Together in Present Time, Providing a More Collaborative Sound"
Cincinnati's Artificial Go continues to craft wiry, Dadaist-fueled post-punk with bright tuneful art pop across their new album Musical...
Joe Massaro
May 7, 2025
Harley Moore of Fugitive Bubble: "I Used To Be More Afraid of What People Would Think, Like, 'What if They Think We're Too Weird?' and I've Gotten Over That"
Fugitive Bubble's high energy art punk antics are characterized by fast, angular rhythms, quirky melodies, and a raw, unfiltered energy...
Joe Massaro
Apr 25, 2025
Chris Gunn of The Lavender Flu: "The Goal Is to Not Get Imprisoned by Our Own, or Others', Impression of What We Are Supposed To Be" (Part One)
From somewhere between the gutter and outer space, came Portand's Lavender Flu. Always consciously out of step with the trends and...
Joe Massaro
Apr 4, 2025
Private Lives: "We Just Got Better as a Band and Sort of Figured Out Who We Are"
More musically accomplished, more obsessively self-questioning, and with equally energetic yet simply deceiving performances, Salt of The...
Joe Massaro
Mar 13, 2025
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