Film Review: Boy Howdy: The Story of Creem Magazine
Crawford does a damn fine job calling out, as the magazine has done since the very beginning, to those of us born with the stifling boot heel attempts of plastic herd culture to snuff the sense of passion and purpose eating us black sheep alive in the nowhere nothing cul-de-sac wasteland, his words a reassuring...
Mixtape Monday: Plastic Jewelry
Chad VanGaalen – “Friendly Aliens” Bishop Allen – “Quarter to Three” The Riptides – “Tomorrow Tears” Fire Exit – “Timewall” Shatterbox – “Too Much Traffic” Don Kriss – “The Dove and the Eagle” House of Harm – “Past Life” Cough Cool – “Plastic Jewelry” Snail Mail – “Dirt” Wreckless Eric and Amy Rigby – “Here...
BEST of SXSW 2019: Show Photos (Part 3)
Best of SXSW 2019 Part 3
Amyl and the Sniffers | The Mystery Lights | Banditos | Leo Rondeau
New Music: Tacocat – “Hologram”
"Hologram" speaks to how our vantage point in life changes inescapably with time while the results of the finite feeling beneath it all remains the conclusion regardless of our ever shifting inner-zeitgeist. We find as the song develops the message to be solace found by accepting the idea of being ineffectual or complacent as largely...
The Tough Shits – Burning in Paradise
The Tough Shits have me once more daydreaming of owning an El Camino just so I can blast this album on repeat blazing across west Texas on the way to California. Overall verdict: Burning in Paradise must be immersed in, an experience as a whole which rises above all condescending criticism, it magnetizes in waves...
BEST of SXSW 2019: Show Photos (part 2)
BEST of SXSW 2019: Show Photos (part 2)
Banditos | Thelma and the Sleaze | Muther | Surfbort | Annabelle Chairlegs |
John Wesley Coleman III | Pscience
Steven’s Visions: Vol. 2 – SXSW 2019
Steven's Visions: Vol. 2 - SXSW 2019
Featuring: Priests | Fontaines DC | Moving Panoramas | Golden Dawn Arkestra |
Alex Maas | Frankie & the Witch Fingers | Blushing | Nothing | Thyla
Mixtape Monday: For Bands In Vans
Once you pass Texarkana and those hazy eyes start getting sick with white line fever, press play on this week's mixtape. We'll bring ya in just right.
10 MUST SEE BANDS AT SXSW 2019
The definitive unarguably best bands you would be an idiot to miss at SXSW 2019.
Andrew Cashen – “Frank Sinatra’s Yacht”
Kerouacian in the finest most brilliant sense, "Frank Sinatra's Yacht" reads somewhere between coming down out of the mountain in Desolation Angels and saying goodbye to the mice in Big Sur; every line, every note owning us as Andrew Cashen cries out to eternity, "what I do now next? Chop wood?."
New Video: Amyl and the Sniffers – Monsoon Rock
As for this moment here now Amyl and the Sniffers are everything.
Mixtape Monday: SXSW 2019 – So Sick
Don't be one of those "never heard of em" types; our SXSW 2019 mixtape will get you on the path of cooler resistance.
Gooch Palms – New Single “Are We Wasted?” – SXSW 2019 – Tour Dates
Gooch Palms new single "Are We Wasted?" further solidifies our suspicions towards the Aussie tradition of baking up tasty snacks that are the perfect blend of colorful sweetness we somehow manage to look cooler by eating. Something weird has been going on down in Australia for a while now, something is up we can...
Album Review: Harlem Puts Us To Sleep With Oh Boy
Had this been their first album it would have been fine, a stepping stone not so much listened to by anyone but still exists in the background, a reminder of where they came from. As an album this far into the game, as something they have arrived at, Oh Boy sounds about as good as...
Album Review: Frankie and the Witch Fingers – ZAM
Frankie and the Witch Fingers ride talent the way most Burger bands ride trends. Zam is the best rock n roll has to offer.
Artist Spotlight: Remy:Badout
Remy:Badout works in Polaroid based photography which is then digitally processed. This is Badout's latest series MARS.
Artist Spotlight: Samantha Wendel
As with the often cryptic dimensions of her most ambitious pieces, Wendel's being hides there secretly to be seen only if one feels driven to invest the energy to stare passionately into the abyss of her creativity.
Mixtape Monday: Levitate
Mixtape Monday: Levitate
1 Dr. Hook - "Levitate"
2 The Black On White Affair - "Bold Soul Sister, Bold Soul Brother"
3 Dee Dee Barnes - "Do What You Wanna Do"
4 Billy Preston - "Will It Go Round in Circles"
5 Ike & Tina Turner - "I Want To Take You Higher"
6 Pacific Gas & Electric - "Wade in...
Artist Spotlight: Meghan Baas
Like our fathers driving alone through the night listening to Seger's "Night Moves," the photography of Meghan Baas bleeds nostalgic tears for the timeless irreplaceable MOMENT; the living memories felt infinite from creation on.
Artist Spotlight: I.S Mancha
Photographer I.S. Mancha captures ideological American optimism through nostalgic romantic eyes. Carl Jung once wrote, “who looks outside dreams; who looks inside awakes,” Mancha does both.
Fresh Threads: Burger City
Burger City designs are meta modernizations of the lost craft hand printed zines which faded with the coming on of the internet whose sole purpose of creation was for the love of loving the bands and sharing that love through channeled inspiration to close friends.
Mixtape Monday: Heavy Rocker
Bob Seger & the Last Herd – “Heavy Music” Girlschool – “Take It All Away” Natural Child – “Laid, Paid, and Strange” Dinos Boys – “Knee High” The Riffs – “Johnny Too High” Sonic’s Rendezvous Band – “City Slang” Bored – “Where Eagles Dare” (Misfits Cover) Testors – “Time is Mine” The Skunks – “Earthquake...
Artist Spotlight: Marcin Nagraba
Polish photographer and graphic designer Marcin Nagraba creates affecting, powerful, haunting photographs. The work a mixture of Gregory Crewdson if Crewdson were to place all levity on the individual in his shots combined with Andreas Nilsson (especially his video for Fever Ray‘s “If I Had A Heart“) if Nilsson were driven to capture the creative...
Mixtape Monday: The Reputations Takeover!
As part of The Reputations taking over the site today they have put together one of the best mixtapes for getting yourself feeling right before putting that shine on tonight getting optimistic for the new year! Check in on our Instagram throughout the day to see what they are up to. Read more about The...
Film Review: Bumblebee Rules!
Don't ask a film rooted in time stamped nostalgia to entertain you, ask it to transport you back once more into the Neverland of your heart. Bumblebee will not not let you down!
Daria Amaranth – “I’ve Been Thinking That…”
Daria Amaranth's style of inflicting the personal yet distracting reality of reflections conflicting weight remains present as ever.
Artist Spotlight: Annalise Natasha Gratovich
Artist Spotlight: Annalise Natasha Gratovich One tends to be captured by art either through the unique immersive process by which it is created or the work itself has an inexplicably captivating sense of wonder in completion. The greatest of artists– those who become catalysts for the aspiring seeking motivations in those striving to create beauty...
Album Review: Drunk Mums – Urban Cowboy
Drunk Mums are one of the last vestiges of wild expressive cool left in the world. Quite possibly one of the last for all of existence!
Mixtape Monday: Teenager In Love
Are you following us on Spotify yet? Friend us here. Barreracudas – “Promises” Nikki and the Corvettes – “Criminal Element” Dumb – “Heather You’re So Cool” If you didn’t catch our interview we did with Corey Baum of Dumb here is your chance. The Babies – “Alligator” The Rubinoos – “I Think We’re Alone Now”...
Artist Spotlight: Bella Kirchner
Intentional or not, Austin based photographer Bella Kirchner can sink your soul with a mere glimpsing of her prints. Kirchner has an acute sense of the thread connecting the life bridge from hopeful idealistic youth to ever alive truth in aging and the encapsulated wonder of it all. There is simplicity within the frame of...
Album Review: John Wesley Coleman III – Cuckoo Bird Sings A Song
Spoken through Kerouacian prose allowing your mind belief in the transcendence of a moment and meaning and everything else which our hearts find positive and defeating in these beat days of our karmic souls
Mixtape Monday: Fresh Leather
Amyl and the Sniffers – “Balaclava Lover Boogie” Got turned on to these dudes a few months back, been Jonesing for em ever since. Full article coming in January. Links – Bandcamp | Instagram | Facebook | Website . Küken – “I’m Not Fucked Up” Few bangers have been devastatingly overlooked more than Küken’s...
Space Age
Model: Marissa Wardrobe: C. Rinella Designs Photographer: Thomas H P Jerusalem, MUTE Photography ( Instagram ) Thomas H.P. Jerusalem of MUTE Photography is a Chicago based German photographer. After living in Frankfurt, Germany and London, UK, he relocated to Chicago, in 2004. Thomas H.P. Jerusalem is specialized in fashion and conceptual photography with a...
Nothing Instagram Takeover
Photo by Ben Rayner Facebook || Instagram || Twitter || Bandcamp With as many physical, mental and spiritual griefs as Domenic Palermo has been through, music and his band Nothing remain an incessant driving force. Growing up in North Philadelphia, Palermo delved into the city’s hardcore scene and in the early 2000’s formed punk/hardcore...
Damn Fine Music Fest: A Celebration of Twin Peaks at Cheer Up Charlies
Welcome to the town of Twin Peaks, director David Lynch’s fascinating and surreal TV show spanning three seasons over the last 28 years. Incorporating eerie and haunting visuals, a moody score by Angelo Badalamenti and a cast of intriguing characters, there’s no doubt that there’s plenty to reflect on and plot points that leave...
Borzoi’s “Big Pink”
Bandcamp || Facebook || Instagram In today’s bombardment of social media and endless clicking and scrolling, creativity often gets lost amidst the mass of noise, apparently missing its mark if it’s not promoted while it’s hot. Following up to last year’s Surrender The Farm EP, Austin’s punk trio Borzoi’s upcoming full length, A Prayer for...
Ohmme Takeover
Photography: Alexa Viscius Website || Facebook || Instagram || Twitter Full of sonic experimentations and rich arrangements, Ohmme (comprised of Sima Cunningham and Macie Stewart) lays at the heart of Chicago’s music scene. Not one to follow in the footsteps of others, the duo successfully embark on their own path, capturing a significant energy...
Taste of Nostalgia
Photographer & Stylist: Mona Cordes Make Up Assistant: Mary Model: Widad of Flagmodels
Arthur Moon’s Single “Standing Wave”
Website || Facebook || Instagram Photography: Lissy Elle Photography Excitingly disjointed and pleasingly jarring, Arthur Moon first caught my ear with her track “Room” off her 2017 EP, Our Head. Consistently experimental in her technique, award-winning composer/singer Lora-Faye Åshuvud constructs dynamic and moody textures, presenting a refreshing spin on electronic-pop. Often writing her lyrics...
Member’s of Wall/Beverly Release New Track “Fate/Glory”
Photo by Colin Sussingham & Josie Keefe Too often do newly formed supergroups lose sight of their aspirations and ambitions, yet New York based quartet Public Practice reign in their individual strengths with their upcoming debut EP, Distance is a Mirror. Including members from post-punk act WALL and dream-pop band Beverly, singer Sam York,...
Mixtape Monday: Beautiful Misinterpretations
Sextile – Paradox Peel Dream Magazine – Pill Love Jerks – Apocalyptic Make-out Single Lash – Come True Silent Forum – How I Faked the Moon Landing Twin Studies – Still Life Many Voices Speak – I Saw You Pearl & the Oysters – Vitamin D
Interview with a Glampire
Models: Felix Lenz + Laura Minor Photographer: Sloane Lenz Wardrobe: THIS IS SLOANE – Collection 7 Shot in Montgomery, Alabama, Interview with a Glampire unravels a gamble and balance of good luck versus bad luck, of characters being a little out of their element and forced to reckon with the situation. ...
Under the Blue Light with Pearl Charles
Artist: Pearl Charles Photographer: John Allen Producer: Nathan Edge HMU: Kate Leatherwood Styling: Nicky Turner Inspiration for this photoshoot was taken from retro photography, a mix of psychedelia and screenshots from The Holy Mountain. Organic patterns were mixed with linear symbolism to evoke ethereal mysticism. All images were taken on 35mm film. ...
Mixtape Monday: Bending Towards Bliss
Them Are Us Too – Grey Water Fyrrh – Orange Cream Fanclub – Leaves Dentist – Corked Versing – Silver Dollar Pllush – Big Train Indigo de Souza – How I Get Myself Killed Wetter – Truth Song
