Category: FEATURES

Brass Bed: Sleeping Giant
Brass Bed awakens with guitars aplenty In The Yellow Leaf (Modern Outsider) may not be Brass Bed’s debut, but it sort

Black Mountain: Crazy Diamonds
After a five-year absence, Black Mountain shines on with eclectic new record At one point in a conversation with Stephen

Tancred: True Grit And Loud Music
Tancred’s Jessica Abbott isn’t afraid to express herself In the last year, Jessica Abbott—singer, songwriter and lead guitarist of Tancred—has

Car Seat Headrest: Holy Toledo
Car Seat Headrest’s frontman is doing it his way Will Toledo is a funny guy, quick to joke about his

LÉON: Whole Lotta Love
For Swedish chanteuse LÉON, it’s all in the family Does Lotta Lindgren blame nature or nurture for her gradual transformation

Japanese Breakfast: Creatively Unlimited
Japanese Breakfast’s sad songs say so much When Michelle Zauner was in Little Big League, she concentrated on writing songs

Shonen Knife: Pleasant Dreams
After 35 years, Shonen Knife is still playing music to make people happy Blame the perpetual adolescence of her lifestyle.

Tacocat: Feminism Is Fun
Tacocat prefers to make you think while having a laugh Tacocat's new album, Lost Time, kicks off with “Dana Katherine

Yeasayer: Fables Of The Deconstruction
Yeasayer somehow managed to make its weirdest, most populist record While it seems the rest of Brooklyn’s psych/pop class of

The Sharp Things: Golden Slumbers
With EverybodyEverybody, the Sharp Things complete their ambitious The Dogs Of Bushwick quartet Ask Perry Serpa how many people are

Marisa Anderson: Turn On The Bright Lights
Marisa Anderson brings church and state together with a little pedal-steel improv Nothing teaches you patience quite like walking across

Primal Scream: By Any Means Necessary
The Scottish pop psychonauts in Primal Scream are back with their best in decades “Most people in bands are usually

Lucius: Grief Counselors
The ladies of Lucius find diarizing life on the road therapeutic Holly Laessig and Jess Wolfe are on their way

The Lumineers: Songs From The Road
With Cleopatra, the Lumineers avoid the dreaded sophomore slump “We had seven years to write the songs on our debut,”