Band of the Month

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BAND OF THE MONTHMogli

There’s a calm awareness woven through singer-songwriter Mogli’s music, an overarching grace that winds its way from the first wordless track of her new EP, Patience, through the very end. It is subtle, rising and falling, a pulsing heartbeat driving each track forward at its own pace as her...

Luci Turner

BAND OF THE MONTHThelma

Likewise, it’s not easy to play it with swollen and dislocated finger joints. But since she took up playing professionally, Natasha Jacobs –...

Lindsey Rhoades

BAND OF THE MONTHSammus

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,...

Mandy Brownholtz

BAND OF THE MONTHHigh Up Premieres "Alabama to the Basement"

.. really good? Christine Fink has one of those voices. She'd relegated her talents to karaoke nights in crowded Alabama bars - that is, until her sister Orenda, well-known for her work with Saddle...

Ashley Prillaman

BAND OF THE MONTHSound of Ceres

Then again, Sound of Ceres stretches the...

Lindsey Rhoades

BAND OF THE MONTHBelle Game

When Andrea Lo talks about Belle Game, the concept of serendipity keeps coming up. It was serendipity that she met her bandmates Adam Nanji (guitar) and Alex Andrew (drums) when they were all in grade school. Adam went off to McGill, where he met future keyboardist Katrina Jones in a bagel shop;...

Lindsey Rhoades

BAND OF THE MONTHWeeping Icon

Thematically, the record touches on hard-hitting topics like street harassment, religion, anxiety, sexism and secrets in "safe...

Elizabeth Wakefield

BAND OF THE MONTHPrima

She has been kicking around concepts for the last couple of years in collaboration with drummer Butch Merigoni and guitarist Jessica Ackerley, and their raw and...

Elizabeth Wakefield

BAND OF THE MONTHSaltland

It might sound silly, but I can hear Rebecca Foon smiling through the telephone. The masterful cellist behind Esmerine, Thee Silver Mount Zion Memorial Orchestra, and her autonomous project Saltland is nothing but lovely – her beaming positivity a bit surprising given the sonic and thematic weight...

Madison Bloom

BAND OF THE MONTHA Place Both Wonderful And Strange

Sorry For Your Loss, the debut album of the 'occult electronic dance music' duo A Place Both Wonderful And Strange, is like an eerie journey into a dark forest; it's terrifying, yet beautiful, and you can only arrowope you'll make it out alive. This duality in Niabi Aquena and Russ Marshalek's...

Emily Daly

BAND OF THE MONTHThe Harrow

With a name inspired by a Kafka story, it makes sense The Harrow would be well-spoken. Yet even with the bar set high the mysterious Brooklyn coldwave/post-punk band impressed with their bewitchingly intelligent interview. The Harrow is Vanessa Irena (vocals, synth, programming), Frank Deserto...

Sophie Saint Thomas

BAND OF THE MONTHDub Thompson

There's a moment in record-store-nerd-meets-girl classic High Fidelity when John Cusack's character, Rob Gordon, catches a couple of skatepunks stealing records from his shop. The punks give back the shoplifted goods when their decks are held ransom, and Cusack's character looks at their haul in...

Lindsey Rhoades