#album release

PLAYING DETROITMountains and Rainbows "Particles"

Particles is salty and dry, thirst inducing and never quenching. It is that very thirst that makes Mountains and Rainbows' long awaited exploration of chaos so surprisingly satisfying. It's a high without the hangover.

Jerilyn Jordan

ALBUM REVIEWPOP ETC "Souvenirs"

Berkeley-born and Brooklyn-based trio POP ETC are back with Souvenir, a follow up to 2012's eponymous release. In the last three years, the band has traversed in an even poppier direction, almost a little cheesy. But in a time when "pop" is considered an obscenity, a genre to be left for the...

Ysabella Monton

TRACK PREMIERE + INTERVIEWTape Waves

If you ask newlyweds Kim and Jarod Weldin what kind of music to expect from their duo Tape Waves, their response might be kind of vague. “Any adjective in front of pop,” Kim responded nonchalantly, when I asked, during our phone conversation last week, I asked her to describe the group’s sound....

Carena Liptak