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How Nature Inspired Dust Moth’s Surging Hard Rock
Dust Moth Mention the Pacific Northwest, and certain images may immediately spring to mind: a sky streaked with wispy grey clouds; a thickly-wooded forest; fog hanging gently above a lake. The music...
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Album of the Day: Various Artists, “The Calais Sessions”
An estimated 5,000 migrants from Africa and the Middle East live precariously in the so-called “jungle” in Calais, France, and lot of them are gifted musicians. With all too much time on their hands,...
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Untangling Crosslegged’s Ghost Stories
Crosslegged. Photo: Nicole Fara Silver for Bandcamp According to a story her mother once told her, when Keba Robinson was four years old, she was sitting at the patio door of her family’s home in...
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Rice is Nice and Sydney’s Eclectic Indie Scene
Rice is Nice The story of Sydney, Australia label Rice is Nice begins simply, just like the stories of a lot of small labels: its two founders—Julia Wilson and Ben Shackleton—launched the company in...
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VoirVoir: Shredding Toward Bethlehem
VoirVoir “We were in these other situations where it wasn’t fun anymore. This felt like a vacation.” —Matt Molchany, VoirVoir The Lehigh Valley—which encompasses VoirVoir’s native Bethlehem,...
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Album of the Day: Jay Som, “Turn Into”
Melina Duerte has been a musician for 13 years—which is impressive, considering she’s only 22 years old. But ever since she was a teenager, Duerte has been creating intimate fuzz-pop under the moniker...
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Tobacco is Neither Mysterious Nor Reclusive
Tobacco On the surface, there’s nothing especially secretive about Tom Fec. He’s easy to find online, particularly in photos, playing both in his solo project Tobacco as well as the band Black Moth...
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Rhyton’s Interstellar, No-Wave Cop Show Music
Rhyton. Photo by Japeth Mennes Dave Shuford isn’t joking when he says he loves to “upend preconceptions and expectations as often as possible.” He cut his teeth playing in New York’s premier weirdo...
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The Merch Table: July 2016
Every month, The Merch Table brings you the best and most bonkers merch you can find on Bandcamp. We commend bands and labels who get a little creative and think outside the tote bag. Whether it’s a...
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Album of the Day: Pkew Pkew Pkew, “Pkew Pkew Pkew”
Entertain the plausibility of the following opinions: Japandroids songs take too long to get to the “whoa”s, and the group chanting is the best part of any PUP song, so they should be doing that all...
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Chicago’s Varsity on Releasing 7”s in the Digital Age
Varsity. Photo by Nick Matsas It’s a sweaty July night at the storied Chicago rock club The Empty Bottle, which has filled up nicely even though, on rock time, it’s still sort of early. The evening’s...
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Pattern Recognition: Toronto Noise
Greys Carl Wilson is a music critic residing in Toronto. “Pattern Recognition” is a monthly column in which he discusses patterns, genres, and things he likes and dislikes. Trust him, he’s an expert....
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Gearhead: Wax Idols
“To me, what’s fun is being able to synthesize the sound, sequence it out, and physically be able to plug a wire into a pot, turn knobs, and everything like that. I just appreciate anything that’s...
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Album of the Day: Denouncement Pyre, “Black Sun Unbound”
For all its theatrical flair, black metal rarely sounds like it’s meant for a big stage. Immortal brought rock ‘n’ roll swagger to the genre during its second wave in the early 1990s, but most bands...
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Star Creature’s Future Boogie
Shiro Schwarz. If you’ve spent time in the countless bars and clubs that comprise Chicago’s nightlife scene, you’ve surely seen a sticker of Herman Munster’s skeletal remains plastered on a bathroom...
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Field Mouse Premiere Their New Album “Episodic”
Field Mouse. Photo by Shervin Lainez With a new album that feels like it’s the start of something bigger—bigger hooks, a bigger sound and Rachel Browne’s booming voice—Field Mouse are bounding towards...
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Dead Vibrations Explore the Darker Side of Swedish Shoegaze
Dead Vibrations. Stockholm’s Sodermälm, often shortened to “Söder,” which is Swedish for “south,” is a neighborhood that was home to famous Swedes (Greta Garbo spent her childhood there), and famous...
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International Dub Ambassadors Bring Classic Reggae to the Modern Age
International Dub Ambassadors Though they’re currently one of the most celebrated bands in Puerto Rico dedicated to playing strictly dub, the International Dub Ambassadors didn’t exactly arrive fully...
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Album of the Day: Hieroglyphic Being, “The Disco’s of Imhotep”
We’re just now turning the stone on Chicago’s Jamal Moss, aka Hieroglyphic Being. He’s starting to get the critical acclaim he deserves, despite a prolific career that spans 20 years. The Mathematics...
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A Spaghetti Dinner with Glamour Hotline
Glamour Hotline. Photo: Kyle Goldberg for Bandcamp “Bandcamp’s one of the first marketing tools I used when I was super young. It’s the easiest way to put your music out.” —Hayley Jordanna I’ve been...
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