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Fink of Angel Face: "People Sometimes Say We Sound Poppier Than on the First Album, but Given the Backstory, We Don't Feel Like We've Really Changed"
Tokyo punk veteran Fink has always held fast to the raw, blown-out blitz that made his earlier groups (Teengenerate, Firestarter,...

Joe Massaro
Oct 6, 2025


Josephine Network: "I Really Enjoy Rock 'N' Roll Monster Songs. Edgar Winter Has 'Frankenstein,' The Move Has 'Brontosaurus'...I Wanted To Add to the Canon"
Josephine Network has carved out her own wild corner of New York rock 'n' roll, a space where hook-filled glam drama, fuzz-drenched...

Joe Massaro
Oct 3, 2025


From Ghost Stories to the Present Tense: Peering Into Phantasia
From the candlelit shadows of their 2019 demo cassette to the haunted pop reveries of 2022's debut LP Ghost Stories , New York City's...

Joe Massaro
Aug 25, 2025


Linda Smith / The Smashing Times: "We Don't Really Fit in a Popular Genre or Scene, So When Someone Gets It, It Really Feels Like an Accomplishment"
Baltimore's own outliers Linda Smith and The Smashing Times crash together on a brand-new split 7" from London's Upset The Rhythm. Two sides, four cuts — Smith's sun-dappled keyboard reveries and The Times' jangly psychedelic daydreams — all sparked by friendship, road miles, and a shared obsession with pure pop delirium. It's bright, it's bold, it's now! In a new interview, Linda Smith and The Times' bandleader Thee Jasmine Monk chat about the highs and lows of touring, wha

Joe Massaro
Aug 15, 2025


Brower: "I'm Always Coming up With Hairbrained Schemes To Release Things Unconventionally"
After cooking up Flour —his long-awaited second LP that slow-baked over several years in makeshift Brooklyn practice spaces—Nat Brower is...

Joe Massaro
Jul 18, 2025


Loose Lips: "I Feel We Are Always on the Same Wavelength When It Comes to How It Should Sound and the Image of the Band"
Across their debut album Last Laugh (DIG! Records), Melbourne's Loose Lips waste no time delivering ten tracks of late-night,...

Joe Massaro
Jul 11, 2025


Kathy Snax: "Don't Lament Your Musical Limitations; Work Within Them! Constraints Can Be Empowering and Even Give You Direction"
Kathy Snax's new EP Shangri-La is a shimmering, synth-forward journey through emotional ambiguity, memory, and the elusive nature of...

Joe Massaro
May 30, 2025


Alien Nosejob: "It's a Little Bit of Everything and a Whole Lot of Nothing, Something for Everybody, Nothing for Most"
Over the last decade, Jake Robertson has quietly built one of the most varied and compelling catalogs in underground music. Best known...

Joe Massaro
May 14, 2025


Jett Witchalls of Self Improvement: "I Have a Deep Fear of the White Picket Fence"
On their sophomore album Syndrome , Long Beach's Self Improvement confront the chaos of the present with their tightly wound, politically...

Joe Massaro
May 13, 2025


In The Red Records' Larry Hardy: "I Plan To Do Less, at Least for Right Now. I'm Trying To Get Through What I've Committed To Doing. That Was Enough. I'm Checking off the List." (Part Four)
Larry Hardy is the founder and owner of In the Red Records (ITR). For the past 34 years, ITR has been one of the leading independent...

Ryan Leach
May 9, 2025


Enduring 'Panther Phobia' at 25: The Oral History of the Brilliant Panther Burns LP Tav Falco Wants You To Forget
Larry Hardy (In The Red Records): Panther Phobia is a release I’m particularly proud of. I’m abundantly aware that Tav doesn’t feel the...

Chris Alpert Coyle
May 8, 2025


Artificial Go: "'Hopscotch Fever' Was Mostly Visiting Old Demos. 'Musical Chairs' Was a Turning Point of Writing New Songs Together in Present Time, Providing a More Collaborative Sound"
Cincinnati's Artificial Go continues to craft wiry, Dadaist-fueled post-punk with bright tuneful art pop across their new album Musical...

Joe Massaro
May 7, 2025
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