Helsinki’s Crimson Peak drape their indie pop-rock in rootsy and folky tones on their latest single, “Lies”. The track leads off with an Americana acoustic guitar that sounds like it was played in Nashville before Lina Sandvik’s deep, soulful vocals… Read More
Charlotte Grayson is an indie-pop artist from the North of England who honed her musical chops on open mic night stages since age 14. All that hard work has paid off, as Grayson possesses confidence and sophistication in her songwriting.… Read More
Since punk first flirted with country music—and vice versa—in the late 1970s, a tsunami of terminology has descended to capture this most curious of hybrids. Cowpunk, country punk, alternative (or alt.) country, Americana, no depression, insurgent country, twangcore, honky skronk,… Read More
Gabrielle Korn, the former editor-in-chief of Nylon, and now the editorial and publishing lead for Netflix’s Most brand, a home for LGBTQ+ storytelling, released her debut memoir last month: Everybody (Else) Is Perfect: How I Survived Hypocrisy, Beauty, Clicks, and… Read More
Listening to Joshua Chuquimia Crampton is like watching a guitarist perform with a thought bubble over their head. We’re aware of his physical motions, his hand’s motion on the instrument’s strings, the fall of his feet on the pedals. But… Read More
After years of negotiation with the national government, Ostinato Records released the first album ever produced in the Republic of Djibouti for international distribution: The Dancing Devils of Djibouti, a cosmopolitan masterpiece. Landmark that it was, it has only marked… Read More
Humbled by the 2016 EU referendum, British Prime Minister David Cameron’s made his resignation speech to Parliament, musing, “I was the future once.” It was a chastened reference to a moment some 11 years earlier when, as a rising star,… Read More
Weeks after the 2017 disappearance of University of Illinois graduate student Yingying Zhang, a psychic offers her services to the search crew. Her advice to the missing young woman’s distraught father, aunt, and boyfriend: “Think like the suspect.” This line… Read More
“I did really feel like — is this a step too far?” laughs Benjamin John Power near the end of our Zoom call. Nestled among keyboards and synths in his home outside Edinburgh, the Blanck Mass composer feels as anyone… Read More
It will take a pair or two of solid elephant’s ears to hear the microscopic distinctions between Slint’s Spiderland, post-rock’s mighty Rosetta Stone, and the 1990 “alternate” mixes of two of its songs released 12 February as a limited 12-inch… Read More