#New York City

Taiwainese R and B Artist 9m88 Releases Cathartic Jazz-Influenced Sophomore LP 9m88 Radio

On her sophomore record, 9m88 (Joanne Tang) does just this. 9m88 (pronounced “Jo-m-baba”) is a Taiwanese artist who translates...

Sara Barron

Bush Tetras Celebrate Four Decades of Fuzzy-Guitared Funkiness On "Best Of" Boxset

No wave, hip hop, R and B, soul, jazz and punk informed the sound of the streets, clubs, parks and gyms, escaping from headphones and pumped from car stereos. Patti Smith had arrived a decade earlier, traipsing...

Cat Woods

PremiereMimi Oz Goes Under the Microscope In "Hate" Video

The Toronto-based singer-songwriter thrives on "being alone," she says, as a "highly creative" person. With a strong support system, she adds, "I can’t say that loneliness is a...

Bee Scott

Amy Jay Readies New LP Awake Sleeper With "Monster" Single

An indie-folk musician based in New York, Jay finds that “everything leading up to the stage” sends jitters throughout her body. It's only once she's planted firmly centerstage that those rattling nerves dissipate, and...

Bee Scott

Poetry Provides Creative Spark Behind Latest Gemma Laurence Single "Adrienne"

” She then comments on the line “and I laugh and fall dreaming again/of the desire to show you to everyone I love.” “I just read...

Liz Ohanesian

Multi-Cultural R and B Sister Duo Bebi Monsuta Find Divine Purpose with "Deuses Falsos" Premiere

Blood sisters Manami and Akira share a kinetic bond, an intrinsic psychic connection embodying strength, vulnerability, and grace as they pay homage to...

Michelle Rose

Alex Orange Drink Comes to Terms with Brokenness on Most Candid LP Yet

As a pioneer in New York City's DIY all-ages scene over the past decade, alongside his brothers in the The So So Glos, Alex Zarou Levine - better known by his solo moniker Alex Orange Drink - represents a millennial shift in pop punk. Today’s punks hold space for complexity, they go to therapy, and...

Michelle Rose

79.5 Tune In to "Club Level" and Do Double-Duty Vocal Support After a Year Without Tours

S. The New York-based vocalists are the core of disco-soul group 79.5 and they’ve been opening for Durand Jones and the Indications since earlier in the...

Liz Ohanesian

Brooklyn Grunge Upstarts Hello Mary Shine on Latest Single "Evicted"

Lindsey Rhoades

Poise Offers Compassionate Blueprint for Resilience with "New Kind of Love" Premiere

When we spoke on the phone, she said that the overarching theme that ties Vestiges...

Lindsey Rhoades

WOMAN OF INTERESTLaura June Kirsch Captures a Specific Era of NYC Nightlife with Romantic Lowlife Fantasies

This statement neatly sums up Kirsch’s oeuvre of work, the irony being that her photographs capture anything but neatness. A consistent fixture in NYC nightlife for the better...

Mandy Brownholtz

Breanna Barbara Grapples With Creative Burnout on Latest Single "New Moon"

Several successful years behind her as an artist, thoughts of never being able to write music again suddenly...

Lacy Strong