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PREMIERELovebird Duo The Bergamot Celebrate Valentine's Day With "Periscope"

High school sweethearts Jillian and Nathaniel make up The Bergamot, an indie rock band based in Brooklyn. The two met in their home state of Indiana and moved to New York together to start their music career adventure, which lead to tours, performing at SXSW and releasing five albums. Today, they...

Victoria Moorwood

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PLAYING DETROITAnna Ash "Floodlights"

But beyond genre displacement, the record is a grand achievement in story telling, quietly exposing the deepest layers of epidermis with a tender honesty that doesn’t require categorization, only reflection.

Jerilyn Jordan

PLAYING DETROITOhtis "Runnin'"

The return of Adam Pressley (Prussia, Jamaican Queens) and Sam Swinson's beloved project, Ohtis, is really good news.

Jerilyn Jordan

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PLAYING DETROITOn the Road With JR JR

It all started when I was a kid. My dad taught me that if I want to meet the band, I should wait by the tour bus after the show. I never abused this knowledge and I never became a groupie (even though the thought of becoming one was a strangely enchanting dream of mine; I was too sheepish to ever...

Jerilyn Jordan

PLAYLISTYour Indie Valentine's Day Playlist

Love is, without a doubt, the most frequently used topic in songwriting (sex and drugs are probably tied for second place, but that discussion is for another playlist). Since Valentine's Day is just around the corner, here's a list of some of the best, (mostly) romantic indie songs to get you...

Emily Daly

INTERVIEWPearl and the Beard

Pearl and the Beard are some of Brooklyn's finest, the pearl in our oyster. The band consists of Jocelyn Mackenzie (vocals, drums, percussion) Emily Hope Price (vocals, cello, keyboards) and Jeremy Lloyd-Styles (vocals, guitars, percussion) who all met an An open mic night. As a hint of what's to...

Sophie Saint Thomas

TRACK OF THE WEEKDream Brother "Uppr Dwnr"

Sunday evening post-New Year's is statistically the most popular time to join an online dating site, and therefor likely one of the loneliest and horniest nights, but also creating that awkward time of the winter year between Christmas and Valentine's Day the most promising time to get laid. (Side...

Sophie Saint Thomas

TRACK REVIEWAmen Dunes "Lonely Richard"

In 2006, during the Northeast's creepiest and most beautiful time of year--fall--Damon McMahon started recording his tightly knotted, introspective guitar melodies in the Catskills, never intending them for public consumption. Thus Amen Dunes was born, and thus--essentially--it remains: the music...

Carena Liptak

TRACK REVIEWAmen Dunes "I Can't Dig It"

The two tracks off Amen Dunes' forthcoming album Love that have surfaced ("Lilac in Hand" and "Lonely Richard") are both on the murky side of things, but neither can touch the newest single, "I Can't Dig It" for sheer liberated noise. Lo-fi and howly, the track is an ingloriously atonal celebration...

Carena Liptak