PLAYING THE BAY: Half Stack Has One Foot Out the Door in New EP Single “Goner”
“Goner,” the new single from Oakland band Half Stack, comes two years after their last release, 2018’s full-length Quitting Time. With an easy narrative and simplistic lyrics, it's the first track from their upcoming EP, Aw Hell. Half Stack have always played on the contrast [...]
PLAYING CINCY: Oski Isaiah Compiles Show Footage For “Company” Music Video
Fresh off the heels of his F*ck A Job album release, Oski Isaiah drops a new clip for smoothly-served project cut, "Company." Oski released the 10-track Autumn Jivenchy-produced album this summer, which celebrated the Cincinnati rapper focusing full-time on his music career. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkJr5y0Is4I Directed by [...]
PLAYING ATLANTA: Going Behind the Lens with Alexandra Scuffle
When one considers the music industry, generally the first thought is of the musicians themselves: a sweat-soaked Mick Jagger convulsing across the stage; Freddie Mercury, fist raised high before the crowd at Live Aid; a hazy image of Joni Mitchell, all blonde hair and sharply [...]
PET POLITICS: Colin Lord of HYPEMOM Talks New Music and Becoming a Cat Dad
Before I introduce our next interviewee, I want to take a moment to dedicate this month’s interview to David Berman—without which, this column would not have a title. For those who are unaware, David Berman was the singer of Silver Jews who we lost in [...]
PLAYING CINCY: Indie Rock Trio Strobobean Drop Two New Singles Ahead Of Tour
Late last month, Strobobean released two new hauntingly beautiful singles, "Ghost" and "Walking Alone," ahead of their fall tour. The Cincinnati shoegaze post-rock trio is fronted by Pop Empire's Katrina Eresman and Jake Langknech and Soften's Brianna Kelly. Their debut 4-track EP, Winter, arrived this [...]

VIDEO PREMIERE: Kae Astra “Medicate”

Photo by Pooneh Ghana Austin-based singer-songwriter Kae Astra isn't pulling any punches with her latest video "Medicate," which features soaring vocals, trippy synths, overreaching plants, and a farmer from a different time. Its [...]

VIDEO PREMIERE: KYOSi “Boo Radley”

In Fritz Lang's classic film Metropolis, the main character is jolted out of his privileged life and given a glimpse of the underbelly of the city, its workers struggling to survive while the bourgeois eat [...]

VIDEO PREMIERE: Kae Astra “Medicate”
Photo by Pooneh Ghana Austin-based singer-songwriter Kae Astra isn't pulling any punches with her latest video "Medicate," which features soaring vocals, trippy synths, overreaching plants, and a farmer from a different time. Its verses describe the quest to heal inner pain, and the [...]
VIDEO PREMIERE: KYOSi “Boo Radley”
In Fritz Lang's classic film Metropolis, the main character is jolted out of his privileged life and given a glimpse of the underbelly of the city, its workers struggling to survive while the bourgeois eat on plates of gold. New York-based experimental pop artist/female producer [...]
SHOW REVIEW: The Mountain Goats @ Anaheim House of Blues
all photos by Suzannah Weiss Indie folk band The Mountain Goats has been around for nearly 30 years, but its members are still going strong. They released their 17th studio album In League With Dragons in April, and they're currently touring around the [...]
PREMIERE: Priestess Debuts Self-Titled EP
Photo by Noelle Duquette Priestess is the haunting doom incarnation of Brooklyn-based songwriter Jackie Green. Green straddles worlds as divergent as day and night with a grace that understates her inimitable work ethic, playing music in what little spare time she has entering [...]
ALBUM REVIEW: Pharmakon Leaves Us Unsettled with ‘Devour’
Pharmakon is Margaret Chardiet, a native New Yorker who sprang onto the local underground experimental scene at the tender age of seventeen. That, however, is the only tender thing about this noise project. A founding member of the Red Light District Collective in Far Rockaway, [...]

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PLAYING THE BAY: Half Stack Has One Foot Out the Door in New EP Single “Goner”

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“Goner,” the new single from Oakland band Half Stack, comes two years after their last release, 2018’s full-length Quitting Time. With an easy narrative and simplistic [...]

PLAYING CINCY: Oski Isaiah Compiles Show Footage For “Company” Music Video

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Fresh off the heels of his F*ck A Job album release, Oski Isaiah drops a new clip for smoothly-served project cut, "Company." Oski released the 10-track [...]

PLAYING ATLANTA: Going Behind the Lens with Alexandra Scuffle

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When one considers the music industry, generally the first thought is of the musicians themselves: a sweat-soaked Mick Jagger convulsing across the stage; Freddie Mercury, fist [...]