June 2022

2022

Photography and interview by Drew Reynolds. Intro by Heather Hawke. The Chicago based band Horsegirl creates fizzy, guitar-driven garage-pop and the newest track/video, “Dirtbag Transformation (Still Dirty),” off their debut album (Versions of Modern Performance – out now) is proof of that. Chicago is baked into the core of Horsegirl’s debut. The members who make up the band, Nora Cheng (she/her), Penelope Lowenstein […]

Photography and interview by Drew Reynolds. Intro by Heather Hawke. Hailing from Dundalk, Ireland, the five-piece ambitious rock band who intertwines a mind-blowing blend of noise, trip hop and electronic influenced music known as Just Mustard are about to release their second album and first for Partisan Records called Heart Under (out this Friday, May 27). Heart Under incorporates an unrestrained yet cohesive vision: there’s […]

Press images by Joacim Fougner. Album artwork by Laura Julie Brage. Other images and blurbs by Emma Grankvist (aka eee gee). Now based in Brooklyn, the emerging Danish artist Emma Grankvist (who performs under the moniker eee gee) released her debut album, Winning, via Future Classic in February and she describes it as “music for the introvert, who is constantly pushed into the […]

Lead image by Christopher John Keller. Intro by Heather Hawke. Photography and captions by Dylan Meek and Adam Carneol. A few years ago, after a lifetime’s worth of collaboration with so many legends, Dylan Meek started to focus on writing and performing his own original songs. The result is his first self-produced and engineered all original solo record, All I Need, […]

Photography by Drew Reynolds. Interview by Heather Hawke. Last time we spoke to Liam Benzvi it was for our ninth issue back in August 2015 (pg. #76) about Strange Names’ album Use Your Time Wisely. Since then, he released his first solo EP (Amnesia, USA) in October 2019. Now, we catch up with him and dive into the creation / recording […]

Photography by Jonny Marlow. Interview by Heather Hawke. Responses by vocalist and guitarist Isaac Flynn. Kansas City band Hembree’s new album It’s A Dream! features colorful lyrics, danceable beats, and songs that you’ll play on repeat. The fact that the band was half way finished making this album when the world shut down in March of 2020 gave them the time to reflect and […]

Photography by Drew Reynolds. Interview by Heather Hawke. Currently based in Los Angeles, musician Brad Oberhofer begun his solo project known as Oberhofer when, in 2008, he moved from his native Tacoma, Washington to New York to study music composition at NYU. Fast forward to last November when he released Smothered, his first proper full-length album in six years.  After making his recorded debut in […]

Photography by ATARASHII GAKKO!. Interview by Heather Hawke. ATARASHII GAKKO!  (which translates to “new school” in Japanese) are a group of four young women – Suzuka: S / Rin: R / Mizyu: M / Kanon: K – who are setting out to redefine what it means to be a girl group. Their newest release – the SNACKTIME EP […]

Photography by Khufu Najee. Interview by Heather Hawke. Hailing from Oakland, CA, Elujay is a singer/songwriter/producer/director who started producing instrumentals and writing songs at the age of 14 after a friend of his uploaded a beat-making program to his laptop. The songs he begun crafting were representative of his love for not only for alternative, R&B, jazz, and soul […]

Photography and Interview by Drew Reynolds. Intro by Heather Hawke. Fast Idol is LA-based Chris Stewart’s (aka Black Marble) fourth full-length album and his second for Sacred Bones. The album features glassy hooks and warbly synths always sounding like they’re on the edge of going out of tune, it’s almost as if Chris traveled into the past to the halcyon days of the analogue era to connect with the forgotten […]

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