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 […]