Sonic Reducer: Saturation Brockhampton Brings It The story behind Brockhampton’s remarkable debut album SATURATION is nearly as impressive as the music. The members of the “boy band”—whose diversity they [...] Adam Wood \ Jul 20, 2017 Read More
Music Interview: Taste The Reighnbeau! Hample’s Work Manipulates Sound And Emotion Bryce Hample is a bit of an enigma. His numerous artistic explorations—ranging from the cyber-industrial psychedelic explorations of former band The Fertile Crescent [...] Adam Wood \ Jul 13, 2017 Read More REIGHNBEAU (Jen Meller)
Show Up!: The Rain, The Sun And The Show More Summer, More Concerts, More Music I don’t know, maybe it was the rain/ Another gray day, I thought maybe/ The real test was finding a bucket with enough [...] August March \ Jul 06, 2017 Read More Gunsafe (Courtesy of the artist)
Music Interview: “I’ll Wait In Los Angeles” The West Is The Best Notoriously, desperately—and even with a bit of nausea acquired from years already living the rocanrol lifestyle—Exene Cervenka of X wanted to leave Los [...] August March \ Jun 29, 2017 Read More Dillon Cullinan, Zach Leyba and Cole Neese of Adult Beverage (Matthew Thorson)
Music Interview: Trost Is The Most Multi-Instrumentalist Rocks New Record Heather Trost, one of the two geniuses behind the genre-bending, deeply fluidic duo A Hawk and A Hacksaw—the other being her partner Jeremy [...] August March \ Jun 22, 2017 Read More Heather Trost (Courtesy of the artist)
Show Up!: Someone Is Singing Gifts From A Flower To A Garden Lord, kiss me once more/ Fill me with song/ Allah, kiss me once more/ That I may, that I may/ Wear my love [...] August March \ Jun 15, 2017 Read More The Mighty Launchpad (Courtesy of the Launchpad)
Show Up!: That’s Quite A Lot! You Keep On Shouting, You Keep On Shouting... I wanna rock and roll all night and party every day.—The main thesis of “Rock and Roll All Nite,” by KISS.I guess you [...] August March \ Jun 08, 2017 Read More (K Mari Photography)
Aural Fixation: A Beginning In An Ending A Lot Like Birds Recovers From Loss Sacramento-based post-hardcore band A Lot Like Birds’ newest album DIVISI delves into loss of love—romantic and familial—in life and death. Being the first [...] Rini Grammer \ Jun 08, 2017 Read More
Show Up!: But They’re Still Making Noise And You Know What Else? My name is Jonas/ I’m carrying the wheel/ Thanks for all you’ve shown us/ But this is how we feel/ Come sit next [...] August March \ Jun 01, 2017 Read More Elivis Costello and the Imposters (Courtesy of the artist)
Aural Fixation: Gorillaz As Humanz Return Of The Pomo Primates As a middle-school hooligan in 2001, I had a handful of burgeoning interests handed off to me by my best friend’s older cousin. [...] Desmond Fox \ Jun 01, 2017 Read More
