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Jackson+Sellers Bring Their Cosmic Connection to Debut LP Breaking Point

But they established an artistic connection long before the message was sent. The seed was planted at AmericanaFest in 2019 in Nashville when they were...

Cillea Houghton

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

Lindsey Rhoades

Teenage Joans Resist Sweetness on Bristling Pop-Punk Debut Taste of Me

Joan of Arc? Joan As Police Woman? Joan Jett? Any of these Joans, and all of them, have the unrepentant, independent spirit that sustains the indie-punk vibe of Teenage Joans. Adelaide duo Tahlia Borg, 18, and Cahli Blakers, 20, have been making ‘90s-style garage punk-pop under the moniker since...

Cat Woods

Debut Single from THEM "Bad 4 U" is Good for the Future of Seattle Music

For a many years now, the future of the Seattle music scene—one that has long been defined by the vibrant grunge and DIY rock scene of the 1990s— has been in question due to Big Tech money and the extensive forces of gentrification overtaking the city. As Bandcamp Daily recently wrote about the...

Alexa Peters

Feral Reflects on TikTok Fame, Mental Health, and New Music

“But it’s not the only thing I am.” It's been nearly a year since our last interview, and Ferrell—who goes by the...

Sophia Vaccaro

Aaron Lee Tasjan Talks Most Personal LP to Date, Tasjan! Tasjan! Tasjan!

"There were two videos that really got...

Cillea Houghton

Reyna Roberts Claims Her "Stompin’ Grounds" as 2021's Next Country Star

With fire-red hair and a voice to match, Roberts is coming for her country crown in 2021. Case in point: her latest single, “Stompin’ Grounds,” with its rollicking guitars and spellbinding blend of hard...

Cillea Houghton

Plush Palace Screams It Out on Debut EP

I love 2020. No, really — though to be clear I don’t mean in a political, interpersonal, or general sense; only in a musical one. Only in 2020 would someone have to audacity to refer to themselves as “introspective indie punk” in their Bandcamp bio. Genre, like the concept of hugging your loved...

Sophia Vaccaro

Sonia Espiritu Eases Into Comfort Zone on New EP

I don't know if this is a nostalgia thing for me, or perhaps something deeper and more insidious, but one of my most obsessive phases of music consisted of, for two straight years, listening to every song The Front Bottoms had ever put out on repeat. The Front Bottoms are the king, queen, and court...

Sophia Vaccaro

Shutups Take Mundane Missteps and Make Them Worth a Dance on EP 5

Oakland band Shutup's new EP 5 is a very adult piece of work. This isn't to say that it is frigid or stuffy, but moreso that it provides a rollicking rock foray into the complexities of adulthood. Some of this grown-up feeling comes from Shutups' desire to not waste time. Almost every song on the...

Sophia Vaccaro

PLAYING THE BAYFantastic Negrito on his New LP and the "Amazing Garden" of Black Roots Music

“I’m a busker at heart,” says Oakland’s Fantastic Negrito. “I started this [project] five years ago, busking — and I wanted to talk to people. The one thing I realized [is] that we need each other as people living on this planet…and if we don't talk to each other, we don't have anything.” Fantastic...

Sophia Vaccaro

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Alleyes Manifest Artfully Melds Past and Present on James Wavey LPs

Babe, the new album by James Wavey/Alleyes Manifest, is a worn patchwork quilt come to life in ten warm, layered tracks. “Love songs for listeners” is how Oakland’s Michael Bridgmon (Alleyes is his producer name, while James Wavey is his performance persona) describes it on Bandcamp. This is...

Sophia Vaccaro