#TORRES

Wrestling with "Sad Girl Indie" and the Limits of Rawness

Their conversation revealed an uncomfortable...

Annie Parnell

PREMIEREBrooklyn Supergroup Rhinestone Mine Campy But Heartfelt Country Aesthetic on Debut EP

As she developed a taste for the...

Lindsey Rhoades

PLAYING COLUMBUSTorres @ The Basement

All photos by Kaiya Gordon As I watched Torres' show last night at The Basement in Columbus, I drafted what I thought might be the opening lines of my review in my head. Before getting to the show, I thought, I felt like I needed to either cry publicly or get in a fist fight. But Torres, the...

Kaiya Gordon

NEWS ROUNDUPMarket Hotel Is Back, NYC's Cabaret Law and More

Market Hotel Ends Their Hiatus Bushwick’s Market Hotel will host shows again starting on November 1st, with yet-unannounced special guests playing the grand reopening show. It's been out of commission while Todd P. and his crew secure the proper licenses t0 turn the longstanding DIY club into a...

Emily Daly

BEST OF 2015Our Favorite Frontwomen

Lukas Keapproth/AMERICAN-STATESMAN 2015 was a great year for women in music. Specifically, for women who front a band as both a singer and guitarist. While we've reached a point where it's not totally necessary to point and shout every time we find an amazing band led by a female musician (it's...

Emily Daly

LIVE REVIEWCourtney Barnett @ Terminal 5

Since the March release of her first full-length album, Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit, Courtney Barnett has become pretty popular. Popular enough that on Wednesday she both headlined and sold out a show at Manhattan’s Terminal 5, which has a capacity of roughly 3,000 people....

Emily Daly

ALBUM REVIEWTorres "Sprinter"

A few days before her album began streaming on NPR, Mackenzie Scott tweeted a complaint about an overused, somewhat vague genre of music: "Can anybody define "indie"? What does "indie" mean to you? Would love to see it eradicated from the vernacular/it's gross like 'hipster.'" Though she's just 24,...

Emily Daly

VIDEO REVIEWTORRES "Strange Hellos"

Mackenzie Scott is primed to explode. Making music since 2012 under the moniker TORRES, that explosion might refer to her combustible stage performance or her rocket-like trajectory as she prepares to release her sophomore album Sprinter on May 5th via Partisan Records. After her self-titled debut...

Lindsey Rhoades