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New Music and Video
Reviews of new music, video, concerts and music festivals.
Catching up with Steve Caballero of Urethane
Urethane: Legendary Skateboarder Steve Caballero is Back with the Raddest New Punk Band We’ve...
Nick Vivid on His Creative Process and Crafting New-School Videos with Old-School Tech
Editor’s note -- we recently asked New York indie artist Nick Vivid to give the mag an exclusive...
JOSH SMITH: Catching up with the Bluesy Axeman as He Hits the Road
“The best advice I can give is do it because you love it, because you have to, because it’s so much fun you can’t not do it.” Josh Smith is a man of few words – he prefers to express himself through...
Greg Holden Takes Us Inside the Recording of ‘World War Me’
photo by Laurel Renee Valdez “Suddenly I was face to face with quite the dilemma: Hire a world-class producer with my own cash or suck it up and record the album on my own.”...
COVER STORY: pronoun Unpacks Layers of Heartbreak Through Songwriting
I’ll show you stronger. Let those words marinate for a minute. Take in the punch, the weight, the defiance of them. That’s the resonant title of up-and-coming indie rock artist pronoun’s full-length...
VINYL OF THE MONTH: Ages and Ages
Ages and Ages Me You They We (Partisan Records) It’s no secret that we’re huge fans of the Portland-based indie rock collective known as Ages and Ages. Led by primary songwriter and...
SONG PREMIERE: “How To Love You Today” by Son of Cloud
Performer is thrilled to premiere the gorgeous new track "How to Love You Today" by Son of Cloud The new track comes to us courtesy of Jonathan Seale, the man behind Son of Cloud, and the co-founder...
EXCLUSIVE TRACK PREMIERE: “New Beginning” by Ray Goren
Performer is excited to premiere the brand-new track "New Beginning" by singer/songwriter Ray Goren. Listen now and sound off in the comments below. Of the new track, Goren comments: "New Beginning"...
Novo Amor on learning to produce and stepping into the spotlight
After a summer spent at a summer camp in the woods in upstate New York, young Ali Lacey was forever changed and the music of Novo Amor (his alter ego) soon followed. Returning home to Wales and...
NICK WATERHOUSE on the Making of His Self-Titled LP
There’s a nostalgic tinge to everything that Nick Waterhouse crafts. As his career traces the California coast, back and forth, he has picked up more warmth and soul between his punchy songwriting,...
Stream the FREE Elixir Strings New Music Sampler Vol. 3
Stream our FREE playlist, featuring the most recent Elixir Strings "artists of the month" as they drop some killer new music. Over the past few months, we've been bringing you behind-the-scenes...
COVER STORY: Georgi Kay Opens Up About the Road to Self-Production
It’s been four years since a confident 22 year old, wearing a leopard pattern button-up and wide brim hat, swaggered into a recording session I was helping to curate in Bali, Indonesia. It was the...