Floatie Prep Release of Debut LP Voyage Out With Latest Single "Shiny"
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RSVP HEREIlithios Streams Debut Live Performance + MORE
Welcome to our weekly show recommendation column RSVP HERE. Due to live show cancellations we will be covering virtual live music events and festivals. More solo endeavors are sprouting up now that many musicians have been left separated from their bands due to social distancing. Most recently,...
Tarra Thiessen
ALBUM REVIEWStove "Is Stupider"
Self deprecation abounds on Stove’s Is Stupider. It opens with “Stupider,” followed by “Stupid,” and later on, “Stupidest” and “Dumboy.” The record art labels Side A as “Side Stupid,” and Side B as “Side Beer.” But for Steve Hartlett, who wrote all the songs and played all of the instruments on Is...
Emily Daly
ALBUM REVIEWPalm "Trading Basics"
What does the new release by Palm, Trading Basics, sound like? A machine: many parts weaving in and out, around and over each other, starting and stopping suddenly. Sometimes it's smooth, and sometimes it sounds like the gears need some grease. On the dizzying track "Crank," the vocals are like...
Emily Daly
CMJ 2015Top 10 Parties Not To Miss
Unless you've been living under a rock or completely off the grid since fall started, you know that CMJ, possibly the best festival for discovering new music, is taking over NYC next week. There's no way to see everything, but here's some CMJ parties you definitely cannot miss (including ours):...
Emily Daly
ARTIST INTERVIEWDan Arnes
Leapling is a three-piece, experimental pop band from Brooklyn. Their last album was the February 2015 release Vacant Page: Ten misleadingly lighthearted tracks punctuated by the soft vocals and pleasantly dissonant guitar of Dan Arnes, the band's leader. Before Leapling recently left on a short...
Emily Daly
ALBUM REVIEWPalehound "Dry Food"
Palehound is Ellen Kempner, a former Sarah Lawrence student. Former meaning she dropped out, presumably because even if the school did have a 90s-inspired indie rock class, there wouldn't have been much left for her to learn; the 21-year-old played everything but the drums on her new album, Dry...
Emily Daly