Ceremony In the Spirit World Now

Published Aug 21, 2019

Genre is a fickle thing. When it comes to certain fan bases, the bands who hold a staple-status are often ostracized for wandering beyond th...

Sheer Mag A Distant Call

Published Aug 20, 2019

Sheer Mag made feel good music. Their empowering narratives and buoyant refrains have, in many ways, raised the creative standard amongst ad...

Protomartyr No Passion All Technique

Published May 01, 2019

There's a difference between over-examining and re-examining; the latter is useful for better understanding an artist's starting point, with...

Fury Failed Entertainment

Published May 01, 2019

When Orange County's Fury announced their signing to Run For Cover Records, it was met with mixed emotions among the self-identified hardcor...

La Dispute Panorama

Published Mar 20, 2019

La Dispute have done a lot of maturing since mesmerizing Tumblrites with the anthemic woes of "Such Small Hands" in 2008. Over the years, th...

Stella Donnelly Mixes Anger and Compassion on 'Beware of the Dogs'

Published Mar 08, 2019

Three days after Australian singer-songwriter Stella Donnelly initially released "Boys Will Be Boys" — a gently sung but righteously angry s...

Stella Donnelly Beware of the Dogs

Published Mar 05, 2019

"It's never too late to be on time."   If there's one message to take away from Beware of the Dogs, it's this, because when Stella Donnell...

Sigrid Sucker Punch

Published Feb 28, 2019

When you've already garnered international acclaim and indisputable commercial success before the release of your debut album, the expectati...

Yves Jarvis The Same But By Different Means

Published Feb 26, 2019

Intimate, isolating, scattered and collected. These contradictions shape the experimental world that Yves Jarvis calmly inhabits and confide...

Meet Tallies, Toronto's New Shoegaze Maestros

Published Jan 31, 2019

At the centre of Tallies, the Ontario band that just released their debut self-titled record on Hand Drawn Dracula, are Sarah Cogan and Dyla...

Rat Boy Internationally Unknown

Published Jan 22, 2019

Indie music often lends itself to the ironic quirks of cool kid culture. If you're not in on the joke, it all seems a little hard to follow....

Tallies Tallies

Published Jan 09, 2019

Let's face it, nostalgia is a safe bet.   Reproducing sounds from the past tickles our memories, but somewhere in the past few years, nost...

Laura Jane Grace & the Devouring Mothers Bought to Rot

Published Nov 07, 2018

There's always been an anthemic quality to the way Laura Jane Grace sings about not giving a fuck. Whether it's been political protest or ch...

J Mascis Elastic Days

Published Nov 07, 2018

Praised for continuously feeding the fix of feedback-crazed fans, Jazzmaster aficionado J Mascis has returned with a gentler offering — one...

Saves the Day 9

Published Oct 24, 2018

They may not have invented the genre, but few bands have been as influential in solidifying an identity for emo and pop punk as Saves the Da...

Kurt Vile Bottle It In

Published Oct 10, 2018

Travel changes people, that's no secret. It gives us a chance to reflect on our relationships and gain perspective on what really matters. F...

Broncho Bad Behavior

Published Oct 10, 2018

We've all been bad and Broncho know it. While the usual suspects continue to dominate headlines, the indie rock outfit from Tulsa have taken...

Villagers The Art of Pretending to Swim

Published Sep 18, 2018

Villagers make music you'd feel just as confident sharing with your crush on some pseudo-indie mixtape as you would with your relatives at a...

Spirit of the Beehive Hypnic Jerks

Published Sep 11, 2018

On the surface, it's not all that clear where Spirit of the Beehive are trying to end up with their music; there's never been definitive des...

Single Mothers Through a Wall

Published Sep 05, 2018

For a band like Single Mothers, the space between too little and too much is where their music has thrived; they're self-aware enough to sel...