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Chandler Levack (Mile End Kicks): Interview
At the turn of the century, Cameron Crowe’s autobiographical film about a young rock critic in 1970s San Diego, Almost Famous, was released in theatres to little fanfare, despite critical praise. Much like the fabled debut by The Velvet Underground, it feels like everyone who did see the movie turned…
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My New Band Believe: Interview
By the time Cameron Picton emerged from slumber with My New Band Believe, the world that had birthed him seemed like textbook history. Its most significant players had put space between themselves and the grimy teen angst that had defined much of their seminal work. So after the soaring heights…
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Ritt Momney: Interview
Jack Rutter’s mellowed out. He says so himself, but you can tell as much by his slow speaking cadence, unkempt beard and his latest album as Ritt Momney, BASE, which also happens to be his best. Gone are the hamfisted odes to Mormonism and jittery pop-rock of his past releases.…
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Flatwounds: Interview
Spawning from the New York Capital region, the 4-piece Flatwounds and their amalgamation of hard rock genres undoubtedly bring a sound that’s unique to the northeastern hardcore scenes. There’s vocalist Colin O’Hare and guitarist Matt Degnan, who began the group in Albany. They soon pulled in bassist David Coonrad and…
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Tortoise: interview
There are a few worthy places where the 20th century of music could have “ended.” Think about the lineages required to culminate in, say, A Tribe Called Quest’s sweeping blends of funk, jazz, and rap, or the plundered collages of Portishead, The Avalanches, or Handsome Boy Modeling School. But few…
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Sarah Kinsley: Interview
The musical work of Sarah Kinsley draws deeply from the penetrating ache of wanting something that you can’t seem to name. Being classically trained and endlessly curious, she writes pop songs that glimmer with surface-level euphoria before plunging you into colder and more disorienting depths. To search for answers in…
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ESG: Interview
There are few artists who can claim as much reach and influence over such a wide umbrella of styles: pop divas like TLC, hip-hop legends like MF Doom, and indie-scenesters like Unrest. That is except for ESG. Birthed in the Bronx in 1978, the dance-funk group are known for their…
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“There’s No Shame in It”: Dominic Hicks on Opening London’s Sleaziest Cinema
It’s movie night in New York City but all there is to see is your third viewing of Chungking Express at the Metrograph, or, if you’re feeling even crazier, a midnight screening at the IFC Center that, half-stoned, you will fall asleep in. Is there really nowhere in the world…
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Jackzebra: Interview
Jackzebra landed in Western consciousness with an exotic hype that had the same sensational fish-out-of-water media hype of Linsanity. Reductionally dubbed the Chinese Bladee by online commentators, there was a swift move to categorize Jackzebra as a known unknown. Media narratives soon emerged, that Jackzebra was somehow a representative of…
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Racing Mount Pleasant: Interview & Photos
Perhaps it was the icy album cover, lyrical references to coldness, and the frigid sounds of woodwinds and strings on the Racing Mount Pleasant’s self-titled sophomore record, but the wintry atmosphere outside the Bowery Ballroom seemed like a perfect backdrop to witness the band’s signature brand of frosty chamber pop.…
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Chicoutimi: Interview
Chicoutimi is both the name of a town in Quebec and the moniker of Thessa Mooij, a Dutch singer hailing from the seaside town of The Hague. Chicoutimi had always been musical, taking guitar lessons from a young age, and being from a city filled with Dutch-Indonesian rockers. Many Indonesians…
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Sorry: interview
Creaking up the attic stairs, I was not sorry to hear laughter cascading down from an artist hued dressing room. It was dimly lit with clothes tossed in preparation for performance with cracked-open beer cans and chips crunching between breaths. Sorry’s warm up began within the Bowery ballroom’s attic: a…
