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Mandy Brownholtz

Mandy Brownholtz is a writer based in Queens, NY, and the author of the novel Rotten. Her bylines have appeared in The New York Times, Insider, Audiofemme and Ears to Feed.

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Interviews

Katie Alice Greer Tests a Tenuous Grasp on Reality With Solo Debut Barbarism

“But that’s okay, because I...

Interviews

P.E. Redefines the Concept of the Muse on Sophomore LP the Leather Lemon

E. get super weird on their sophomore record The Leather Lemon - and I mean that in the best way. Out March 25 on Wharf Cat Records, the album opens with “Blue Nude,” wherein singer Veronica Torres purrs, “You want to make me beg,”...

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Bodega Brushes up on the Classics on Broken Equipment LP

He goes on: “What good...

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Stars Align for Chief Cleopatra With the Premiere of "Afrodite"

k.a. Chief Cleopatra, grew up feeling stifled by the limitations of her rural environment. In a small town best known for producing honky-tonk songwriter Lefty Frizzell and a “world famous fruitcake,” according to...

Interviews · Woman of Interest

Leigh Barton and Ky Digregorio of Nusweat Just Want You to Feel Good

Adjusting the way we exercise has been just one of the many ways the pandemic has irrevocably altered life as we knew it, particularly for myself. As a former Classpass-subscribed YMCA member with an enthusiasm for in-person cycling and hot yoga classes, the lockdown forced me, and many others, to...

Interviews · Premieres

Dropper Seeks Personal Growth With Lead Single "Don't Worry"

A veteran of Brooklyn’s indie rock scene, Scanniello...

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Transformation, Rebirth, and Unsolved Mysteries Inspired Latest Marissa Nadler LP the Path of the Clouds

Among other things, obviously - the Boston-based “dream folk” songwriter took piano lessons, and wrote, recorded and produced her ninth solo album The Path of the Clouds, out October 29 on Sacred Bones/Bella Union....

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W.s.a.b.i. Radicalizes the Natural World With Red Hook Farms Mixtape

When’s the last time you considered your relationship to the land you live on? For those of us living in cities, it can feel particularly challenging to cultivate a connection with the natural world, given that in our context it’s been largely paved over. But to Brookyn-based artist and musician...

THALA Teases Debut LP Adolescence With Dreamy Single "Contradictions"

Her dreamy shoegaze pop evokes genre mainstays like Mazzy Star, particularly in THALA's vocal style, alongside more...

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OFTEN Turns Restless Uncertainty Into Latest Sad Bop "Deep Sleep"

Genre-bending Atlanta artist OFTEN (who uses she/they pronouns) describes their project as “the queer love child of Donna Summer and Fiona Apple.” Such a description articulates the many intersections where the artists finds themselves: between their queerness and an intense Seventh Day Adventist...

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Macy Rodman Flaunts Rhinestone-Covered Resilience on Unbelievable Animals LP

” Her album Unbelievable Animals drops this week, released on Shamir’s Accidental...

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Purple Pilgrims Find Comfort in the Past With "Ancestors Watching"

Summer 2021 began optimistically, shots in arms and money in pockets. This optimism, while not dead, has wilted in the face of the Delta variant, that science offered us a miracle and so many squandered it. There’s simultaneously joy in our newfound armor, and sorrow for those we needlessly lost....

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Lesibu Grand Sugar-Coats "Not Sweet Enough" With Remix From the Punk Cellist

“Not Sweet Enough,” the latest track from Lesibu Grand, is a journey both audibly and visually. I don’t mean the song takes you on a journey as much as the Atlanta band does, offering multiple reimaginings of the song that all serve to emphasize the same point: from the grungier, contemporary...

Live Review

Livestream: Anna Fox Rochinski @ TV Eye

While the live music industry is slowly returning to normal, there’s still something to be said for a filmed concert performance. It doesn’t pack the exact same punch as a live show, which is not to say that it packs no punch at all, but rather that its significance rests more in its posterity. It...

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A Place to Bury Strangers Return With New Members, New Perspective, and New Hologram EP

It’s nice when people are nice to other people.” The founding member of iconic NYC noise band A Place To Bury Strangers is no different than the rest of us in the sense...

Interviews · Premieres

Philly Synth-Pop Artist Catherine Moan Broadcasts Aspirational Joy With "Drop It!"

Philly isn’t really known for a bustling electro-pop scene, but emerging synth artist and songwriter Catherine Moan just might change that. The city’s known more for its contributions to punk and hip hop, and Moan felt a bit lost in it all, not sure where she fit in. “It [felt] sometimes like...

Interviews · Woman of Interest

Laura June Kirsch Captures a Specific Era of NYC Nightlife With Romantic Lowlife Fantasies

This statement neatly sums up Kirsch’s oeuvre of work, the irony being that her photographs capture anything but neatness. A consistent fixture in NYC nightlife for the better...

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Eva Tolkin Makes a Case for Saying Yes to the Universe With City and Sky LP

Singer-songwriter Eva Tolkin never imagined she would have a career as a musician. She was working in fashion when she met Solange Knowles and auditioned as a last-minute whim for work as a back-up singer, only to exceed expectations and ultimately get the gig. And after Solange's True tour cycle...

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Spellling Is a Conduit of the Divine on Orchestral Pop Concept LP the Turning Wheel

” So says Chrystia Cabral, the Bay Area-based creative lifeblood behind the critically acclaimed experimental pop project SPELLLING, of what drives her songwriting. “I’m always striving to insert these spiritual questions because that’s what...

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Mae Powell Savors Sensory Joys With "Scratch N Sniff" Premiere

With that arises the need for...

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Ambient Artist M. Maria Debuts Otherworldly Sound With Premiere of "There's a Spirit in My Body"

’” So says Ridgewood-based ambient experimental artist M. Maria. She is on the cusp of dropping her debut EP Saturn Returned, from which she premieres...

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Tr38cho of Old City on How to Be a Man (Read: Good Person) in DIY Communities

Old City is a Philadelphia/Buffalo-based hip-hop/punk collective composed primarily of the eponymous producer Old City and rapper Tr38cho, who bring in other members of these musical communities for collaborations. Their latest release is “Class Act,” an explosive tribute to women in punk featuring...

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Too Weird for This World, Death Hags Soar Into a New Dimension With "Future Now"

in anticipation of her debut LP. Since then, the Los Angeles-based artist has been chipping away on her prolific Big Grey Sun...

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Bay Area Neo-Soul Artist Simha Examines Imposter Syndrome on New Single "Losing Focus"

He seamlessly weaves elements of the Indian classical music of his heritage with jazz and soul sounds, the...

Interviews · Woman of Interest

Just Let Ottessa Moshfegh Live!

I had seen the hot pink spine of My Year of Rest and Relaxation on the subway, sitting on a bench in Maria Hernandez Park. It was the kind of quintessential NYC “cool girl” read that I’d...

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People Museum Re-Introduce Their Future New Orleans Sound With "Rush" Video

Givens is...

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Gianna Alessi Meets Herself in Intimate Spaces on "From Within"

Among the hordes of New Yorkers who took a hiatus from the city for the last year is singer-songwriter Gianna Alessi. Having spent the last seven years bouncing around Brooklyn and Manhattan and growing her live show at venues like Bowery Electric and Arlene’s Grocery, she gave up her apartment and...

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Kelly Mcfarling Relishes the Lushness of a Lost Time on Deep the Habit

As we reach the year anniversary of the pandemic and all of the disarray it has brought into our lives, people have begun to reflect on how it’s changed them. One such person is Bay Area singer-songwriter Kelly McFarling, who released her latest LP Deep The Habit on March 12. She recorded the album...

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Nisa Meets Anxiety With Understanding on "Turn Me Down"

For New York City born and bred singer-songwriter Nisa, who releases her forthcoming debut EP Guilt Trip on March 26, that sound more specifically borrows elements from the varying subgenres...

Interviews · Premieres

Matthew Danger Lippman Revisits Hometown Haunts in "Suburban Girlfriend" Video

Throughout his adolescence he began to funnel the class clown antics into music; his high school band...

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Anna Fox Rochinski Champions the Effervescence of Pop Music With Debut Solo Single "Cherry"

Such serendipity is at play with Anna Fox Rochinski’s upcoming solo debut Cherry (out March 26 on Don Giovanni Records), of which she shared the title track and...

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Vákoum Unpack an Anxious Mind to Become One With the Body in "Airotic" Video Premiere

On their debut full-length LP Linchpin, experimental duo Vákoum offer up an expansive array of rhythmic, textural, and tonal complexity, utilizing unexpected transitions between effected guitars, a blend of acoustic and electronic drum beats, and ethereal Bulgarian-inspired vocals to create a sound...

My Top Album of 2020 Was Room on Fire by the Strokes

The Strokes in 2003. Photo Credit: Colin Lane Whose culture is this and does anybody know?/I wait and tell myself, life ain't chess/But no one comes in and yes, you're alone/You don't miss me, I know The date was March 16, 2020. I got a text from my boss. He said he was really sorry but not to...

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Mima Good Sows Resilience With Hydra LP

We premiered the lead single “Sad Club Night” earlier this year, back when COVID was new and we were only beginning to feel the dread and uncertainty of...

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Mima Good Teases Debut LP With "Sad Club Night" Single

” She returns to the ever-evolving project with single “Sad Club Night,” off...

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Priestess Debuts Self-Titled EP

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 her second year of...

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, she has always been...

Album Review

Sheer Mag Grows Into Their Sound on 'a Distant Call'

Philly four-piece Sheer Mag has returned with their highly anticipated sophomore record, A Distant Call. On it they double down on their infectious take on '70s arena rock and power pop that they brought to us on previous releases, but with a more refined finish; still they combine these classic...

Album Review

Gold Child Shines on Self-Titled Debut

A “self-proclaimed student of country music’s golden age,” she names legends Patsy Cline and Emmylou Harris as major...

Album Review

Mabel Falls Flat With High Expectations

Like many, I sat down to listen to emerging UK pop artist Mabel’s debut full-length High Expectations with just that, high expectations. The songstress comes from remarkable music industry stock, the daughter of Swedish singer-songwriter and rapper Neneh Cherry and British songwriter and producer...

Album Review

The Heartfelt Nostalgia of Tony Molina's Tapes From San Mateo County

Bay Area indie artist Tony Molina has always had either foot in two worlds, which is perhaps the only obvious observation one might make about him. He maintains deep ties to the punk and hardcore scenes in which he cut his teeth, having played with bands like Healer, Caged Animal, and Bone Sickness...

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Mima Good Returns With Light-Hearted New Track "Holly Golightly"

Mima Good is NYC-born and based songwriter Raechel Rosen, whose sound and aesthetic espouses a contemporary pop sensibility with a darker atmosphere of synths, organs and guitars. The result is a moody, soulful sound that somehow calls to mind both Billie Eilish and Billie Holliday simultaneously....

Woman of Interest

The Evolution of Chelsea Handler

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Among humanity’s more limiting foibles is our perpetual need to categorize, to label, to place things into boxes. I assume this is some leftover remnant of our evolutionary selves, the need to discern who or what is a threat in order to survive. This persistent obsession with labels survives today,...

AF 2017 IN Review: Opening Elsewhere

Ringing in the New Year at Brooklyn's newest nightclub and indie rock venue, Elsewhere. “What is elsewhere?” I asked. Just a week or two into my internship at PopGun Presents, I had heard Jake, Rami, and Dhruv say this word at least ten dozen times. I sat with Jake and Dhruv at Saint Vitus over beers...

Album Review

Yumi Zouma "Willowbank"

Yumi Zouma photo by Aaron Lee It's only been a year since New Zealand’s Yumi Zouma debuted with Yoncalla, a polished batch of ten disco-infused indie pop tracks. But the Kiwi quartet have already returned with follow-up Willowbank, a subdued collection of dreamy songs that explore the fundamentally...

Album Review

Alvvays, Antisocialites

If Alvvays’ eponymous first record articulated a quintessentially modern fear of commitment, then newly released follow-up Antisocialites captures the next logical step, which is an ambivalence about it. The Toronto band gained momentum in 2014 with their self-titled debut, a nine-song batch of...

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Album Review

Charly Bliss "Guppy"

They haven’t escaped comparisons to bands like Veruca Salt or Letters To Cleo, and they won’t here...

MUSING · Album Review

Future Islands "the Far Field"

“It’s not easy, just being human, and the lights and the smoke and screens,” sings Sam Herring on Future Islands’ latest record, The Far Field. It isn’t. Our lives are a sloppy amalgamation of highs and lows, love and hate, obsession and apathy. In essence, this record faces this reality head on:...

Album Review

Sorority Noise "You're Not As _____ As You Think"

Hartford emo band Sorority Noise released their third full length record, You’re Not As _____ As You Think, this week. It’s so self-aware it’s like the Scream of emo records. It’s formulaic as far as pop punk records go, but the band almost points it out ironically, trying to hedge out a...

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