After over a decade together, Chilean duo Ives Sepúlveda and Manuel Parra explore the murky…
Amyl And the Sniffers Playlist
Amyl and The Sniffers rage on stage as if the 21st century never happened. The…
ALASKALASKA’s Playlist: Muzika!
Before forming, half of ALASKALASKA met in a Popular Music university course, while the other…
Your Music Horoscope: Virgo Season
Astrology’s pretty ancient, but we’re here for it as a modern-day cultural phenomenon—horoscopes and astrology…
SRSQ’s “Life by Dissociation” Playlist
SRSQ (pronounced “seer-skew”), the solo project of Kennedy Ashlyn, came in the wake of a…
The OGs of Emo-Rap
In the dawning weeks of 2019, Spotify declared that “emo-rap” was the previous year’s fastest-rising…
Your Music Horoscope: Leo Season
Astrology’s pretty ancient, but we’re here for it as a modern-day cultural phenomenon—horoscopes and astrology…
An Ode to the Theremin
Emerging in 1920, the theremin is one of the earliest electronic instruments, a whining, pitch-bending…
Your Music Horoscope: Cancer Season
Astrology has become a cultural phenomenon—horoscopes and astrology memes are prevalent on social media, and…
Fond Farewells: 26 Posthumous Gems
There’s no pain exactly like losing a musician you love. Partaking in good art can’t…
Confessions of a Retired Teenager by Sophie Auster
Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Sophie Auster’s haunting voice and soaring, lush poetry set to music is what…
Vera Sola’s “Other Voices” Playlist
Canadian/American singer-songwriter and poet Vera Sola (born Danielle Aykroyd, as in daughter of actor Dan Aykroyd)…
Ryan Montbleau’s “Songs That Bring Me to Tears” Playlist
Vermont-based singer-songwriter Ryan Montbleau has written his share of tear-jerking songs over the years of…
Shampoo Toons – Axis: Sova Playlist
Initially formed as the solo project of guitarist Brett Sova and his Roland drum machine, Chicago’s…
Cold and Black and Infinite Set Change
What’s This Playlist All About? For their 2018 tour with The Jesus and Mary Chain,…
Smalltown Supersound’s Inspirations
In 1993, in the small southern Norwegian town of Flekkefjord, young Joakim Haugland launched the…
Beacon’s “I Am Sitting in a Room” Playlist
Brookyln-based, Ghostly International-signed electronic duo Beacon are known for their modernist, deconstructed take on R&B.…
Howard’s “Mind Body and Soul: Classics & Currents” Playlist
For their second album, Together Alone, Howard Feibusch’s namesake recording project Howard expanded to become a…
Spesh’s “Primmed” Playlist
Seattle band Spesh spin out a swirling, dream-pop sound lovingly indebted to British C86 indie…
Deru’s “Torn in Two: Album Thoughts & Resonances” Visual Playlist
L.A.-based Composer, musician, and sound designer Benjamin Wynn has some unique credits to his name,…
Mexican Summer’s 10th Anniversary Playlist
When Brooklyn-based label Mexican Summer launched a decade ago, it was a side-project. Founded by…
The Outsider Genius of Third Eye Blind
Third Eye Blind were huge, but they were never credited with being exactly “important.” Sales…
Lemaitre’s Autumn Sounds Playlist
Lemaitre is the electronic duo of Ulrik Denizou Lund and Ketil Jansen of Oslo, Norway. Together,…