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RSVP HEREAutomatic stream via Bandcamp + MORE

Automatic are an LA post-punk three piece composed of Izzy Glaudini on synths/vocals, Lola Dompé on drums/vocals, and Halle Saxon on bass/vocals. Their 2019 debut record Signal sounds like Suicide and Broadcast formed a supergroup to play at the end of a David Lynch film. I spent a month in LA last...

Tarra Thiessen

RSVP HERESUO Bartends Listen Bar's Virtual Happy Hour + 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. SUO is the solo project of artist and musician Saara Untracht-Oakner that came to fruition after 15 years of songwriting and a decade of touring....

Tarra Thiessen

Mattie Safer - PROMO - Oct 2019 - SELECTS-10

RSVP HERESafer Plays Our Wicked Lady+ MORE

Welcome to our weekly show recommendation column RSVP HERE - your source for the best NYC shows and interviews with some of our favorite local live bands. photo by Kevin Condon My first impression of Mattie Safer, bassist/frontman of the new disco-punk project Safer, is that he has a much calmer...

Tarra Thiessen

PLAYING SEATTLELeeni Ramadan Goes from Craigslist Collaborator to Prom Queen

By Carol Hodge With her teased bouffant, vintage A-line dresses, red lipstick, and coy, lilting voice, musician Celene "Leeni" Ramadan, who releases music as Prom Queen and as Leeni, stands out as one of Seattle's most unique exports. Though she currently lives and works her day job as an editor in...

Alexa Peters

VIDEO PREMIEREA Place Both Wonderful and Strange "Prom Night" (plus a remix!)

AudioFemme premieres the music video for A Place Both Wonderful and Strange's "Prom Night" along with a remix by Chicago-based Hiding.

Sophie Saint Thomas

REVIEW and INTERVIEWA Place Both Wonderful and Strange @ Morbid Anatomy Museum

At Brooklyn's Morbid Anatomy Museum, occult-feminist-doom-gaze-dance-pop (possible the best descriptors in the universe) group A Place Both Wonderful and Strange released their new record The Laura Palmer Deviations in the form of a visual performance.

Sophie Saint Thomas

BAND OF THE MONTHA Place Both Wonderful And Strange

Sorry For Your Loss, the debut album of the 'occult electronic dance music' duo A Place Both Wonderful And Strange, is like an eerie journey into a dark forest; it's terrifying, yet beautiful, and you can only arrowope you'll make it out alive. This duality in Niabi Aquena and Russ Marshalek's...

Emily Daly

FESTIVAL PREVIEWThe 5th Annual 4Knots Music Festival - Our Top Picks

The 5th annual 4Knots Music Festival approaches. Held Saturday, July 11 at Pier 84, this year brings performances from Welsh psych-stars Super Furry Animals and Portland rockers Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks along with: Twin Peaks, Mikal Cronin, Screaming Females, Happyness, Meatbodies, Heaters,...

Sophie Saint Thomas

Burgerama Recap and IntroducingIAN

Well, one of the most anticipated weekends this spring for the West Coast garage rock lovers has come and gone. Burgerama 4 last week has certainly exceeded it’s “hype.” Surrounded by a sea of (mostly) Californian sunbathed teens, I, as well as a few thousand others, discovered some great new...

Megan Huffman

TRACK REVIEWBlack Honey "Sleep Forever" (Demo)

Ask not for whom the gramophone croons. By now, Black Honey's obscured identity can't be unintentional. Their demo "Sleep Forever" is hooky-as-hell, sinister pop noir, with a timelessness that's strengthened by their mysterious identity. Lipstick-stained cigarettes and flickering neon come to mind,...

Carena Liptak