top of page
Home: Welcome
Home: Blog2
Search
Good Flying Birds — Promise of a Sound
Pure pop innocence is sweeping the Midwest and direct from Indy, it's the Good Flying Birds, perhaps the most beloved group of the jangle...
Joseph Massaro
Mar 25
Now: "Originally I Thought Maybe We Would Do Four Singles but It Turned Into an LP. After Some of the Longer Jammier Instrumental Passages on 'Blue Space' I Thought, Well Let's Make a Pop Record"
Now's succinct pop art and bubblegum glamour has become nearly synonymous with both the Bay Area's underground beat and K and Perennial...
Joseph Massaro
Feb 19
Autocamper: "Looking Up at One of Your Favorite Bands of All Time With a Pint in Hand Is the Best Feeling There Is, Only Topped by Having Just Played a Blinder With Your Mate"
Characterized by their wide-eyed devotion, Autocamper's shambling pop chops and C86 revisionism is as lovable as it is easily copied....
Joseph Massaro
Nov 22, 2024
Feeling Figures: "I Think This Album Is More Expansive in Terms of Thematic Ideas and Song Content, Yet More Cohesive and Contained in a World of Its Own"
What else is there to say that hasn't been said already about Feeling Figures? Montreal's fully-formed, over-educated rockers approach...
Joseph Massaro
Oct 24, 2024
Kate Bollinger: "I Hadn't Been to Los Angeles Before 2021 and I Met So Many People That Totally Changed My Life and My Perspective"
Over the course of the last couple years, the Charlottesville-born, Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter Kate Bollinger has mastered her...
Joseph Massaro
Oct 2, 2024
Soup Activists: "While I Do Miss Fronting a High Energy Band, I Am Happy and Excited With What I'm Doing Now"
Considered to be one of the primary architects of today's contemporary punk landscape, the mercurial St. Louis-based artist Martin Meyer...
Joseph Massaro
Sep 26, 2024
Pleasant Mob: "Chicago Is Like One Big Musical Family"
Chicago's most modest popsters Pleasant Mob craft songs that feel like they may have always been there for you, existing in the ether and...
Joseph Massaro
Sep 23, 2024
The Smashing Times: "This Record Was Made To Fulfill My Artistic Vision and Unsurprisingly, Since the Intent Was Honest, It's the Best Record I've Made"
Baltimore freakbeat popsters The Smashing Times weave in another charmingly offbeat psychedelic treat on "Ben Jimeny the Green Grocer,"...
Joseph Massaro
Sep 4, 2024
Sharp Pins: "Without All Ages Shows, I Wouldn't Have Met My Best Friends in the World and I Wouldn't Be Inspired at All to Do Anything I'm Doing, or at Least the Stuff I'm Doing Wouldn't Be Very Good"
Sharp Pins, the songwriting vehicle for Chicago native and pop noisemaker Kai Slater, (guitarist-vocalist of Lifeguard, publisher of...
Joseph Massaro
Aug 7, 2024
Love Banana: "I Think Having Our Differences Is a Great Thing and Keeps Us From Accidentally Sounding Too Derivative, Which Is Easy When You're Young and Excited and Get Obsessed Over Music"
Love Banana offers up short sharp shots of super-shambolic, super-perky garage-pop on their latest single "Get In." The new tune,...
Joseph Massaro
Jul 11, 2024
Rain Parade's Matt Piucci: "It Has Been a Joy To Learn That So Many Bands Have Told Us How Important We Were to Them"
Ahead of the release of Rain Parade's new EP, Last Stop On The Underground , out this Friday, May 24th on Label 51 Recordings, I spoke...
Joseph Massaro
May 21, 2024
Flowertown: "Our Tendency to Join Disparate Content Together Sometimes Lends Itself Toward the Strength of Our Songs"
In a place called Flowertown, Mike Ramos and Karina Gill craft a landscape with tender melodies and lo-fi dreams. While the duo are known...
Sydney Salk
May 20, 2024
Diners: "Speaking for Myself, Making 'Domino' Felt Healing"
One of last summer's most overlooked pop statements came from Los Angeles-based songwriter Blue Broderick, aka Diners, on her latest...
Joseph Massaro
May 15, 2024
Program: "Each Song Has to Stand on Its Own Two Feet, so We Give Them Each a Lot of Care and Attention"
As they know quite well how to read the jangle pop playbook, Program has been one of our favorite rock bands to come out Melbourne since...
Joseph Massaro
May 7, 2024
One Year of The Lemon Twigs 'Everything Harmony': "The Main Goal of the Album Was to Record Something With Immaculate Production in Which There Wasn't Anything in the Wrong Place"
To celebrate the one year anniversary of The Lemon Twigs' unabashed masterpiece Everything Harmony , I dug up an interview I did last...
Joseph Massaro
May 6, 2024
The Lemon Twigs: "We Have This Philosophy of Creating the Best Recording of a Song That You Possibly Could"
Following the release of last year's triumphant comeback Everything Harmony , The Lemon Twigs return with their fifth studio album, A...
Joseph Massaro
May 3, 2024
Laughing: "I Forgot How Fun It Is To Get Loud And Rock Out With Your Friends"
Following various shows and festival appearances over the last couple years, Montreal rockers Laughing have shared with us the music...
Joseph Massaro
Apr 24, 2024
R.E. Seraphin on New Album 'Fool's Mate': "I've Become More Comfortable Taking Creative Risks and Allowing Myself to Explore Different Facets of My Songwriting"
Ahead of the release of his raucous, hook-filled second LP Fool's Mate, I caught up with the pop-eclectician R.E. Seraphin all about the...
Joseph Massaro
Mar 20, 2024
Lightheaded: "I Don't Know What We Are Supposed to Sound Like. I Only Know What We Aren't Supposed to Sound Like"
Along with the announcement of Lightheaded's first proper album Combustible Gems, out May 17th on Slumberland Records (The Reds, Pinks, &...
Joseph Massaro
Mar 13, 2024
The Smashing Times: "Most of Touring is Just Hanging out and Travelling. I've Been Really Lucky to Have a Good Touring Unit That Gets on Well"
Towards the later half of 2023, The Smashing Times were on the road continually from playing shows in London and Paris to later touring...
Joseph Massaro
Feb 23, 2024
bottom of page