Meghan Alfano

Sugarplum Fairies The Images We Get Los Angeles, CA “Whimsical calm, reminiscent of ’90s teenage angst.” Dawson’s Creek wished it had a soundtrack this good, but the melodrama would have been...

Sleepy Vikings They Will Find You Here Tampa, FL “From the depths of the shoegaze swamps” At times, the term “shoegaze” gets abused as a genre. However, it does raise eyebrows when Tampa-based group...

Panda Bear Tomboy Baltimore, MD “Album of the year from the singer of Animal Collective” Tomboy is the vivid sound of Panda Bear, aka Animal Collective frontman Noah Lenox, who after bearing his...

The Oxygen Ponies Exit Wounds Brooklyn, NY ”Some wounds won’t ever heal” A gun-shot may technically sound like a bang, or look like a cloud of smoke surrounding a body crumpled up on the ground. In...

New Fumes Bump and Assassination Dallas, TX “Psychedelic, melodic electronica with guitar” New Fumes is the moniker for the new project of Daniel Huffman, who was a guitarist for Texan groups Comet...

The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library Volume One Somerville, MA “21st Century sing-a-long” Remember those childhood road trips, when siblings only stopped fighting for the sing-a-long tape and the...

King Creosote and Jon Hopkins Diamond Mine United Kingdom “A stunning collaboration worth repeating” Diamond Mine is what you get when you pair Scottish singer/songwriter King Creosote with British...

I Was Totally Destroying It Preludes Chapel Hill, NC “A refreshing pop explosion” I Was Totally Destroying It is rock and roll, bringing you back to the pop electric sound that once ruled the...

Hooray for Earth True Loves New York, NY "An industrial box of audible surprises” Hooray for Earth can create one hell of an electro-pop tune as long as they stay focused. The band’s first...