Toronto electronic music trio Keys N Krates brings us our latest SPIN SETS, coming through with an hour of high energy house shot at Denver’s Meow Wolf’s Convergence Station. From their early days as a hip-hop […]
How Department Made a Sampledelic Symphony
“I remember my brother and I used to fill up a CD-R with songs and drive into the city. We could only pick one song each till the disc was full,” says Adam Kyriakou, who […]
Chris Stapleton Soars ‘Higher’ On Fifth Solo Album
Chris Stapleton’s 2015 solo debut Traveller was a breath of fresh air in country music. Released at the peak of bro country’s popularity, the album was a welcome return to craft-based musicianship and harkened back […]
The Future Of Hardcore Burns Bright In Scowl
Inside of Scowl, there are two wolves. One wants to be the best hardcore band on the planet, while the other seeks a diverse sound inspired by various bands across the alternative rock universe. On […]
Petey Goes Offline
Unlike many social media stars who leverage massive followings to achieve overnight success in entertainment, Petey didn’t get into music due to his TikTok fame. Though the singer-songwriter, who grew up in Chicago’s north suburbs, […]
How Mitch Rowland Mastered Debut LP With Help From Harry Styles, Ben Harper
Come June may be Mitch Rowland’s debut album, but he’s no music industry newbie. For the past seven years, he’s served as one of the guitarists in Harry Styles’ band, and has been an integral […]
Blink-182 Gets It Right On Explosive ‘One More Time…’
This is all anybody wanted. Blink-182’s eruptive One More Time… is a knockout return for the pop-punk institution — a homecoming parade of hooks masking the band’s patented suburban angst. It’s loud and fast, silly […]
Tex Crick: Found In Translation
Ever wanted to skip down the street even when you’re kind of bummed out, or felt the need to put on a happy face when you’d actually prefer to hide from the world under the […]
Karina Rykman: Ace Of Bass
Karina Rykman identifies as “genre-fluid.” The bassist/singer is almost frighteningly conversant on the guitar sparring of Derek Trucks and Warren Haynes, 311, Captain Beefheart and metal. After learning the White Stripes’ “Seven Nation Army” on […]
The Iron Roses Prove Youth Isn’t a Necessary Ingredient for Punk
When the Iron Roses formed a couple of years ago, they were a pretty basic angry punk band that stemmed from performing with vocalist Nathan Gray for his solo career. They played as a unit […]
WHO IS AKIRA GALAXY
The imaginatively named Akira Galaxy (it turns out to be her real name!) was born in Seattle, Washington 24 years ago, a time when the ghosts of grunge sailed through the city, their music not […]
Swede Surrender: Sven Wunder’s New Old Jazz
With his perfectly trimmed red beard, sweater vest, spectacles, and black stocking cap, Joel Danell resembles your hipster teenager’s favorite college philosophy professor. However, the albums the Stockholm-based artist/producer/composer makes as Sven Wunder are anything […]