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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


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


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


Leopardo: "At First, Our Music Was More Psychedelic Pop and the Lyrics Were All About Love. Now, the Music Has Become Stranger, We Love What’s a Bit Wrong, Out of Tune, Weird"
Leopardo, the well-mannered and quirky Swiss group from Fribourg, are back once again with Side A / Side B , an album that invites the...

Joe Massaro
Mar 7, 2025


Sun Cousto: "I Think It Is Still Important for Us That Even Though We Are Only Two Instruments, We Don't Sound Like a Rock Duo"
Earlier in the year, Sun Cousto, the Swiss duo made up of Isumi Grichting and Julie Bugnard, crafted the truly promising and memorable album Imaginary Girls (Chrüsimüsi Records), which builds from gloriously harmonic pop ballads to scrappy punk immediacy engulfed in a pastoral freshness. Compared to 2019's debut LP, Satan And I Walk Under A Rainbow , it's a substantial improvement in production and songwriting, helping the duo identify their long-term trajectory and the unden

Joe Massaro
Dec 20, 2024


Naked Roommate: "Motherhood Has Loosened Me Up. I Don't Take the Time I Can Find To Create and Perform for Granted"
Oakland musik collective Naked Roommate's latest album Pass The Loofah retains the wild energy of their 2020 debut, but leans into the...

Joe Massaro
Nov 18, 2024


G2G: "People Say Our Band and Music Often Feels Like a Series of In-Jokes or Some Display of Memories of Funny Times We Have Had Together and I Really Think It's True"
G2G unleash gloriously ragged, pep-charged post-punk tunes with a playful pop ingenuity and ramshackle charisma on their long-awaited...

Joe Massaro
Oct 21, 2024


The Submissives: "Always Play the Long Game and Choose Honest Artistic Expression Over Fame and Money. Getting Reviewed and Talked About Is Fleeting and Meaningless"
Montreal singer-songwriter Deb Edison has been an enigmatic creative spirit since taking upon a solitary voyage under the moniker The...

Joe Massaro
Sep 5, 2024


New Math: "I Think We Just Were Like Lots of Kids. You Just Tried to Mimic Your Favorite Band at the Time, or Your Favorite Sort of Moment in Music"
By the time the 1980s struck, New Math was way out there. After cementing an underground rock scene at the now-extinct club Scorgie's in...

Joe Massaro
Aug 22, 2024


Self Improvement: Danceable but a Caustic Force
Formed during the pandemic as a long-distance project, but now based in Long Beach, minimal post-punks Self Improvement have artlessly...

Joe Massaro
Jun 20, 2024


The Spatulas: "It's Interesting to See What Develops From Opening Myself up to So Many Different Musicians"
Between their sparkling debut LP "Beehive Mind" and December's EP "March Chant," the Spatulas have been expansively busy. How does...

Sydney Salk
Jun 13, 2024


Vacation: "Most Bands Break Up or Change Names A Few Years into the Game, But I Think With Us, a Listener Gets a Key to the Time Capsule That is Our Band"
Cincinnati rockers Vacation don't need much of an introduction. If you've ever seen them live, then you're familiar with their...

Joe Massaro
Apr 25, 2024


Night Slaves: "There Are A Lot of Trails We Have Not Gone Down, Yet"
Buffalo underground statesmen David Kane and John Toohill's throbbing, multi-pronged mutated assault Night Slaves returned today with...

Joe Massaro
Apr 5, 2024


R.M.F.C.: "I'm Not 17 Anymore and I Think I've Figured Out How to Make Better And Less Derivative Music Since I Started"
With the release of 2023's full-length debut LP Club Hits , R.M.F.C. has managed to avoid getting typecast within the contemporary world...

Joe Massaro
Mar 26, 2024


Premiere: The Minneapolis Uranium Club Return with the Freewheeling Earworm Strum "Tokyo Paris L.A. Milan"
Ahead of the release of their anticipated fourth album, Infants Under The Bulb, The Minneapolis Uranium Club, or sometimes just Uranium...

Joe Massaro
Feb 7, 2024


Grazia Pays Homage to Sleaze and Kitsch on Debut EP 'In Poor Taste'
Heather Dunlop and Lindsay Corstorphine, who make up the London duo Grazia, inject an eccentric rush of impeccably tight KBD-damaged...

Joe Massaro
Feb 1, 2024


Leopardo Explores New Cosmic Territories on "I Can't Help Falling in Love with Nobody"
Hailing from Fribourg, Switzerland, Leopardo create their own well-seasoned blend of buzzing garage pop and absurdist post-punk, bridging...

Joe Massaro
Sep 6, 2023


Natalie Hoffmann of Optic Sink: "I Wanted To Have More Low-End in the Band and Wanted To Bring Another Non-Sequenced 'Human Element' To Contrast All of the Machines"
Expanding on the magnetic, minimalist post-punk frontier first chartered on their 2020 Goner debut and recent 7" on Spacecase, Memphis...

Joe Massaro
Aug 15, 2023


Video Premiere: EXEK Leaps Further into the Unknown on "Welcome to my Alibi"
Melbourne/Naarm experimental post-punks EXEK are back today with the announcement of their forthcoming sixth full-length album, The Map...

Joe Massaro
Aug 11, 2023


Disintegration: Synth-Soaked Post-Punk for the Future
Disintegration is a Cleveland supergroup of sorts that's made up of Haley Himiko (Pleasure Leftists), Noah Anthony (Profligate), and...

Joe Massaro
Aug 7, 2023
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