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5-26-22
Listen: Uma Bloo – Don’t Drive Into the Smoke
Sage Shemroske
Don’t Drive Into The Smoke lives out of spite and in favor of vulnerability.
By Sage Shemroske
11-9-21
Listen: Stice – Stice’s Satyricon
Devon Chodzin
Stice's Satyricon is freaky and fun, overwhelming with every listen.
By Devon Chodzin
9-28-21
Listen: Quelle Rox – Lilac Rush
Lilac Rush is therapeutic in a way that only dream pop can be after 2:30am.
8-19-21
Listen: Ox Sanchez – Anxiety Dreams
Singer Joy
Ox. Sanchez thinks toward to how the future of how albums, and music, can break apart conventions and surpass our expectations.
By Singer Joy
8-2-21
Listen: Julia Kwamya – Feel Good About Feeling Bad
Listening to Julia Kwamya, you get a sense that the best way out of a rut is to layer everything together.
6-8-21
Listen: Rachika Nayar – Our Hands Against The Dusk
Between the extensive processing of guitar, strings, and voice, Rachika Nayar’s compositions obliterate boundaries.
6-1-21
Listen: Sun June – Somewhere
Soleil Engin
Sun June reminds us that the people we love never leave us; they're always somewhere in the deep part of somewhere.
By Soleil Engin
5-11-21
Listen: Babehoven – Yellow Has a Pretty Good Reputation
Babehoven is brief but mighty, channeling dread, depression, and delirium that weigh on me like a yoke.
4-27-21
Listen: Bored at My Grandma’s House – Sometimes I Forget You’re Human Too
Lyrically sincere and sonically engulfing, "Sometimes I Forget You’re Human Too" feels like a carefree afternoon at home, serene, reflective.
4-13-21
Listen: June Jones – Leafcutter
Meredith Salisbury
June Jones offers us a reminder that there are ways out; inviting us to prepare for new worlds we can imagine together.
By Meredith Salisbury
4-1-21
Listen: Divide and Dissolve – Gas Lit
Time never stops for a band like Divide and Dissolve.
3-23-21
Listen: Palberta – Palberta5000
Carolina Simionato
Palberta5000 is everything you could’ve expected from Palberta, but with a spellbinding twist.
By Carolina Simionato
3-9-21
Listen: Frances Grove – Sophie
Sophie preserves images and sensations with the kinds of catchy, youthful hooks that remind me of when your problems were smaller.
2-23-21
Listen: Serena Isioma – The Leo Sun Sets
The Leo Sun Sets lets you do what you want with it; helping you to illuminate your own path.
2-9-21
Listen: Infinite X’s – S/T
If Team Dresch is a protest and Le Tigre is a night out, Infinite X’s is hanging out at home with your pals.
2-2-21
Listen: Sedona – Rearview Angel
Rearview Angel fuels us by mining emotions and helping them go to good use.
1-28-21
Listen: Big Joanie and Charmpit – Kluster Room Sessions
Kluster Rooms Sessions is just the sonic and emotional adventure you've been looking for.
1-26-21
Listen: Suitor – Communion
Communion is the gritty soundscape you need to rattle out your stressors.
1-12-21
Listen: Hachiku – I’ll Probably Be Asleep
I'll Probably Be Asleep hits at a poignant part of pandemic life.
1-5-21
Listen: True Blossom – In Bliss
True Blossom are the long night out and the long walk home, all at once.
12-22-20
Listen: Emily A. Sprague – Hill, Flower, Fog
The sense of peace that Emily A. Sprague manages to unlock is breathtaking.
12-18-20
Listen: Tomberlin – Projections
Wes Muilenburg
Tomberlin proves that there’s something more interesting within the space between joy and sadness.
By Wes Muilenburg
12-10-20
Listen: Lomelda – Hannah
Hannah reminds us which questions we need to be asking, but the answers aren't coming easy.
12-8-20
Listen: Soccer Mommy – Color Theory
Gabrielle Rueda
Soccer Mommy lulls us into comfort and familiarity.
By Gabrielle Rueda
12-3-20
Listen: Why Bonnie – Voice Box
Why Bonnie shows you how to protect your voicebox from the judgment of others.
12-1-20
Listen: Thick – 5 Years Behind
5 Years Behind shifts between anger and sentimentality.
11-24-20
Listen: Yumi Zouma – Truth or Consequences
Reina Shinohara
Yumi Zouma invites us into an escapist daydream.
By Reina Shinohara
11-17-20
Listen: Woven In – Profess
Woven In dismantles oppressive patterns of thought with sensuality, protest and emotion.
11-12-20
Listen: Jordana – Something to Say
Something to Say ravages our brains with new tastes and sensations.
11-10-20
Listen: Shower Curtain – S/T
There’s a parking lot in LA where half the street lights are broken any day of the year.
11-5-20
Listen: Ratboys – Printer’s Devil
Sean Fennell
Printer's Devil reminds us that the past is malleable and subjective.
By Sean Fennell
11-4-20
Listen: Worriers – You or Someone You Know
Worriers demand to take up space.
10-27-20
Listen: Wednesday – I Was Trying to Describe You to Someone
Emjay Troxclair
I Was Trying To Describe You to Someone feels like warm-cool summer nights, coming of age movies, and everything in-between.
By Emjay Troxclair
10-22-20
Listen: Yasmine Hosseini – Ribbons
Wherever you choose to go, Ribbons will take you there and back.
10-20-20
Listen: Lady Lamb – Arizona
Lady Lamb reminds us of a childhood cut short; that growing up is inevitable.
10-15-20
Listen: Half Waif – The Caretaker
Alex Ramos
Self-sufficiency – the kind you only come to with deep intuition, introspection and isolation – percolates all over The Caretaker.
By Alex Ramos
10-8-20
Listen: Long Neck – World’s Strongest Dog
World’s Strongest Dog is anxious to feel love; to figure it out.
10-6-20
Listen: Bacchae – Pleasure Vision
Maggie Boccella
Bacchae howls with none of the grace of a sunny day and all the rage of its riot grrrl predecessors.
By Maggie Boccella
10-1-20
Listen: Waxahatchee – Saint Cloud
Elizabeth Harris
Waxahatchee’s uneasiness is palpable and extremely relatable.
By Elizabeth Harris
9-28-20
Listen: Lido Pimienta – Miss Colombia
Nik A. Basset
Miss Colombia investigates misogyny in Colombia and yearns for homeland.
By Nik A. Basset
9-24-20
Listen: Lala Lala x Grapetooth Split
Lala Lala and Grapetooth filter experiences through a techicolor screen.
9-22-20
Listen: Lily Konigsberg – It’s Just Like all the Clouds
Lily Konigsberg reaches toward the endurance of joy in life overall.
9-18-20
Listen: Sarah M. – Highway 9
Griffin Wynne
Highway 9 is the sound of trying and transforming.
By Griffin Wynne
9-15-20
Listen: Store Front – Task
Annie Zhang
Store Front act as the ultimate companion for an aimless journey.
By Annie Zhang
Listen: Ginger Taylor – Yuppie
Yuppie is a teenage fantasy tinged with lingering distaste for the adults who take advantage of you.
9-14-20
Listen: Lightning Bug – October Song
October Song is lush, inventive, and milky clear.
