TRACK OF THE WEEK: Psychic Twin “Lose Myself”
For AudioFemme's track of the week, Emily Daly reviews Psychic Twin's new single "Lose Myself" off her upcoming album Strange Diaries.
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ALBUM REVIEW: Meilyr Jones “2013”
It doesn’t matter if you’ve never heard of Meilyr Jones, or his former band Race Horses. It doesn’t matter if you think Jones is English, when in fact, he’s a Welshman. It doesn’t even matter if you’re stumped on...
PLAYLIST: A Guide To “Moon” Bands
There are only so many words, and as a result, only so many band names that can be claimed before they start to overlap. For example, here’s six bands that have “moon” in their name, and considering these all were...
PLAYING DETROIT: Moonwalks “Lunar Phases”
Few bands are as aptly named as psychedelic Detroit four piece, Moonwalks, whose upcoming release Lunar Phases could act as a wild, yet tailored, road map to uninhabited galaxies and black holes, alike. The band’s first LP, scheduled to...
ALBUM REVIEW: Summer Twins “Limbo”
There are few things better than pop music that uses a bright, upbeat exterior to hide a deeper, darker message, and that’s exactly what the Riverside, CA based sisters Summer Twins have created with Limbo. Consider the album name,...
PLAYING DETROIT: Odd Hours
The first half of my conversation with Natasha Beste of moody electro-pop duo Odd Hours is instantly dedicated to playing six degrees of separation between the two of us until we are able to piece our social puzzle together, realizing...
ALBUM REVIEW: Blank Realm “Illegals In Heaven”
Blank Realm possesses their own unique energy no matter what genre a song of theirs lands in. And on their new album, Illegals In Heaven, the Brisbane siblings go through a few right away: There’s the opener “No Views,”...
ALBUM REVIEW: Deradoorian “The Expanding Flower Planet”
Angel Deradoorian is a former member of the Dirty Projectors. As one of the band’s vocalists, she contributed to many of their trademark harmonies and long, sustained cries that used the singers’ voices more like an instrument than just a way...
LIVE REVIEW: Public Service Broadcasting @ Bowery Ballroom
Public Service Broadcasting travels across the pond and through time to give us a funky dance party
TRACK OF THE WEEK: Twin Limb “Long Shadow”
For a normal band, making an accordion sound cool would be no easy feat. But for the dream-folk duo Twin Limb, it’s no big deal. Lacey Guthrie plays the instrument along with keys and vocals, and Maryliz Bender contributes vocals,...
BURGERAMA 4: The Femme’s List of Who to See
For those of you not too familiar with the DIY whirlwind that is Burger Records, it is a Fullerton, California-based independent record label founded back in 2007 by Sean Bohrman and Lee Rickard. Burger is most well known for...
ARTIST INTERVIEW: Carmen Villain
Carmen Villain’s voice projects the vibes of a psychedelic witch, singing in a spooky fog-covered lagoon, especially in her new track, “Quietly.” Its counter track, “Let it Go”, sounds like its mostly-instrumental sequel. This half Norwegian/half Mexican babe is...
ALBUM REVIEW: Weyes Blood “The Innocents”
Just now, I googled “1960s witchy psychedelic folk,” grasping, I guess, for a manageable term that encapsulates both Nico’s glamourous theatrics and Brigitte Fontaine’s quirky darkness. I’m sitting at a table in the pool-house out back of a big...
VIDEO OF THE WEEK: The Vickers “Senseless Life”
A couple months back, Italian group The Vickers put out their Ghosts album, a slow burner of a collection with a generous helping of sixties haze. Everything this quartet creates seems to come wrapped in layers of gauze: the beats...
TRACK REVIEW: Jeffertitti’s Nile “Blue Spirit Blues”
Jeffertitti’s Nile is the kind of band that likes to make its own reality. The project of Jeffertitti Moon, bassist for Father John Misty, Jeffertitti’s Nile developed in the space between tours, expanding with various new members and cameos...
ALBUM REVIEW: Morgan Delt “Morgan Delt”
“I think we’ve become stuck in time and everything is going to happen all at once from now on,” Morgan Delt has commented, regarding the resurgence of sixties and seventies influences in the impressive amount of psychedelic- music coming...
ARTIST PROFILE: Øystein Braut of Electric Eye
Electric Eye‘s debut collection Pick-up, Lift-off, Space, Time came out last spring, but three of the group’s four members have been playing together for a decade and a half, since they were in high school in a small city on the...
VIDEO OF THE WEEK: Cass McCombs “Big Wheel
Back in October, enigmatic folk artist Cass McCombs released his seventh full-length, Big Wheel and Others, a double album that led us through hypnotic rhythm cycles and tangential, but beautiful, guitar passages, intimate if shadowed vocal lines, and lyrics...