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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

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"

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"

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"

Soup Activists: "While I Do Miss Fronting a High Energy Band, I Am Happy and Excited With What I'm Doing Now"

Pleasant Mob: "Chicago Is Like One Big Musical Family"

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"

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"

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"

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"

Program: "Each Song Has to Stand on Its Own Two Feet, so We Give Them Each a Lot of Care and Attention"

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"

The Lemon Twigs: "We Have This Philosophy of Creating the Best Recording of a Song That You Possibly Could"

Laughing: "I Forgot How Fun It Is To Get Loud And Rock Out With Your Friends"

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"

Premiere: The Follies Reach for Crisp Pop Sounds Without Betraying Their Gritty Sensibilities on "I Idled"

The Umbrellas Grasp Jangle Pop at its Most Endearing

Feeling Figures Transmute Personal Intensity into Collective Joy on "Movement"

Leopardo Explores New Cosmic Territories on "I Can't Help Falling in Love with Nobody"

Terry Returns with a Fresh Batch of Idiosyncratic and Deceptive Garage Pop on 'Call Me Terry'

Album Premiere: The Whiffs Inject a Frenzy of Power Pop Classicism on 'Scratch 'N' Sniff'