Archive: 2025

Silver Liz is an eclectic force in the Brooklyn scene. Founders Carrie and Matt Wagner met in a college music practice room, bonding over an eavesdropped conversation about The Strokes. The married couple moved to Chicago from central Pennsylvania in 2015, so Carrie could study at Second City Conservatory. The Windy City’s legendary indie backdrop […]

The music of Madeleine Rose Witney chronicles a vanishing world and revives it in technicolour. A torch singer born and raised in Kentish Town, her songs are keyhole glimpses into an ever-changing Soho and its ragtag eccentrics hidden underground. Her upcoming debut EP includes four stories from the London neo-noir she lives and breathes – […]

Now ten albums into his solo career — while still keeping his day job as frontman for The Old 97’s — Rhett Miller delivers his most stripped-down and confessional work yet with A lifetime of riding by night. This darker, more introspective tone can potentially be attributed to Miller’s recent gig teaching a songwriting class […]

Released in 1965, Farewell, Angelina marked an important step forward for Joan Baez. By her fifth studio album, she had already established herself as the defining voice of the folk revival, but here she began to expand her sound and repertoire. For the first time, Baez included electric accompaniment, courtesy of Bruce Langhorne’s subtle guitar […]

Competitive gaming, often named esports, has grown into one of the most exhilarating and fast paced industries on earth. It used to be sort of a backwater and rare kind of activity but now is the centerpiece for global media concerts, with millions of fans attending matches or following their favorite pro athletes. However, what […]

Rounding out our tribute to the late great Marc Bolan, for today’s Weirdo Wednesday, we’re keeping the spotlight on his peculiarly psychedelic pre-glam days with Steve Cook when his band was officially titled “Tyrannosaurus Rex”. In this super rare footage, we find Bolan and Took delivering a stripped-down performance of “Pewter Suitor” on the street […]

Guitar, the Portland-bred indie rockers, centred around songwriter and producer Saia Kuli, have always been up for a challenge. From fighting for their spot in a burgeoning art scene in their home city, to toying with the limits of their lo-fi aesthetics to achieve colorful compositions, Kuli has never shied away from the complexity of […]

Empty your minds and open them up to new ideas. Princess Nokia has arrived with a new project. Following the animated, hyperpop-tinted I Love You But This Is Goodbye, Nokia emerges with Girls, a venomous, daring, and vulnerable LP that challenges established norms and fearlessly transforms pain into uplifting anthems and heartfelt poetry. If you’ve […]

Don Was is arguably music’s greatest multi-tasker. Who else has handled all these roles – producer, songwriter, recording artist, music supervisor, documentarian, musical director, radio host, multi-instrumentalist, and President of Blue Note Records? You’ve seen him play bass with Wolf Bros, and his name has been associated with artists from the Rolling Stones to Willie […]

Ky J. Brandes creates indie-rock ear candy out of a small home studio in Nashville, TN. Brandes’ songwriting is earnest and vulnerable, featuring punchy melodic bass lines underneath layered guitars, luscious strings, and tight grooves. After two years of recording and rehearsing new material with a full live band, Brandes is tackling indie and folk-rock […]

Zigzagging through the pedestrian traffic populating the much-maligned street construction of downtown Burlington, Vermont, there was a palpably convivial air under the near full moon on October 4th. And that sense of lighthearted liberation crystallized under the bright marquee of the Flynn Center, then permeated the venerable theater once Brad Mehldau and Christian McBride began […]

Sulka is the Glasgow-based DIY songwriting/recording project of Lukas Clasen, whose style blends hushed, intimate vocals, warped lo-fi production, and dynamic mood changes. In 2021, Sulka joined the Lost Map Records collective with his well-received LP, Take Care, which gained him a wider listenership and BBC radio play from the likes of Vic Galloway and […]

For Sierra Hull, an innocuous 2023 phone call with the creative geniuses at Gibson ultimately led to the culmination of a dream decades in the making.  Immediately upon receiving her first Gibson mandolin at the age of twelve, Hull became enamored with the craftsmanship and pristine sound quality that sets Gibson instruments apart. In 2009, […]

Continuing our salute to the late great Marc Bolan, for today’s Tuesday’s Gone, we’re throwing it all the way back to the very beginning of his career with this remarkable footage of him performing with Steve Took from 1967. At the time, the band was essentially a psychedelic folk outfit and went by the name […]

The Format, led by Nate Ruess and Sam Means, return with their long-awaited third album Boycott Heaven, out January 23, 2026, via their own label The Vanity Label. The album was produced by Grammy-winning producer Brendan O’Brien (Pearl Jam, Bruce Springsteen, The Killers) and features O’Brien on bass alongside renowned drummer Matt Chamberlain (David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Fiona Apple). Pre-order Boycott […]

Robert Finley has always wanted to do a gospel album, yet like his previous melding of blues, soul, R&B, and gospel, he’s not content to stick too closely to the pure genre. Finley works again with Dan Auerbach on his fourth album for Easy Eye Sound, and essentially gets free rein on Hallelujah! Don’t Let […]

The efficiency of Bradley Morgan’s U2 Until The End of the World belies its heft. In the 240 pages of the 11″ by 9″ hardcover, the author provides a fairly thorough chronicle of the mega-successful Irish band’s history, without any overt agenda or slanted editorializing. And while the writer doesn’t delve too deeply into the […]

It took Marc Broussard three tries to bring his tour to Florida. The January shows were canceled due to the historic snowstorm in Louisiana, which made travel impossible. The shows were canceled again in May. But in October, Broussard finally hit the Sunshine State for three shows, culminating with a set before a sell-out crowd […]