#Electric Guitar

ONLY NOISEGlenn Branca's Final Ascension

I wound up at the Kitchen sort of by mistake. It was a Tuesday - February 23rd, 2016 to be precise. It had been a year since the worst week of my life, and sitting at my desk after a long day of designing women’s underwear, I longed for a little culture that evening, a little date with myself. So I...

Madison Bloom

BAND OF THE MONTHDaytona

NYC band Daytona has been a long time in the making. The trio released an EP—Storm So Long—back in 2012,but on the full-length debut that came out this past September, Daytona's brand of bouncy, garage pop comes through in all its high-energy, jubilant glory. A few years ago, bassist Jose Boyer,...

Carena Liptak

TRACK REVIEW"Red Eyes"

Channeling late eighties classic rock and an oft-noted kinship with Bruce Springsteen's raw jubilance, The War On Drugs have released three albums since their inception in 2003. Over the course of the decade, the line-up has fluctuated--notably, founding member Kurt Vile left the group in 2009 to...

Carena Liptak