A four-piece alternative rock group from Edinburgh and London is called DAYTIME TV. The band has dominated the airwaves of Radio 1, Kerrang! Radio, Amazing Radio and BBC Radio Scotland. They have released a string of singles during their brief time together, including "Communication," "Ugly" and "Zombie," and they have received airplay on important playlists like Apple Music's "New In Rock"... read full bio
John Darnielle, a singer-songwriter from Claremont, California, founded the Mountain Goats. Durham, North Carolina, is where the band is currently headquartered. Despite having a plural name, the Mountain Goats only had Darnielle for many years. Despite remaining the band's core member, he has collaborated with a variety of artists over the years, including Franklin Bruno, Kaki King, Jon Wurster, Matt... read full bio
With a style rooted on six-string distortion, electronic manipulation, loud rhythms and strange lyrics, the raucous indie rock quartet Gilla Band became well-known. Less daring listeners might recoil in horror at the intensity of their assault, but there are glimmers of humor hidden behind the abrasive surfaces that soften the blow and the band's fiercely uncompromising music has gained them a strong... read full bio
Geese is a Brooklyn-based band that was founded as a basement home studio construction project amongst friends. Their shared goal of creating music through any methods required gives birth to each of their tracks. They started recording together in the afternoon after a school day, using sneakers as mic stands and blankets to cover the amps, until they started to... read full bio
Ecca Vandal is a true original because she is loud, genre-defying and unafraid to stand out. Ecca was up in a musical home and was exposed to a wide variety of art and music from an early age because her family had immigrated to Australia from Sri Lanka via South Africa. Her ability to effortlessly balance between soulful melodies and raw,... read full bio
The subject of escape runs throughout Django Django's latest album Glowing in the Dark: from limitations, from hopelessness, from small-town life and in dreams, even from the Earth. The band's entire career has essentially been about avoiding, eluding and evolving beyond things, including situations, sounds, expectations, influences and even their own perspective of themselves. However, that is not something new. The goals may... read full bio
Clinic, one of indie music's most distinctive and enigmatic acts, combines decades' worth of well-known sounds in unexpected ways. It's conceivable to detect traces of the Velvet Underground's chugging cool, the Seeds' churning garage rock, Suicide's cold pulse, Ennio Morricone's spaghetti Western drama or Augustus Pablo's brooding dub in their music at any given time. The Liverpool-based band's distinctive appearance and... read full bio
When they first appeared in the early '90s, Stereolab quickly established themselves as one of indie music's most distinctive and influential acts with their hypnotic rhythms and seductive vocals. The ensemble, which was led by Tim Gane and Laetitia Sadier, honored pop music genres that were typically excluded from the history of rock, such as bossa nova, lounge-pop and movie soundtracks.... read full bio
Silvertwin is the new band you desperately need in your life, created by Isaac Shalam. Shalam grew up listening to classic albums from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s in the family car and he had a desire to replicate those sounds as soon as he entered high school. Shalam founded Silvertwin while attending college in London. The group consists of five like-minded... read full bio
Apocalyptic music is produced by Lunch Money Life, a band willing to portray the deteriorating face of our failing surroundings. They are becoming more and more essential as the end draws closer. Jagged guitars, belligerent percussion and gloomy low-end whisper are mangled together with dated electronics, submerging the listener in a world of loathing and need. The musicians have spent years operating on... read full bio
La Dispute, a post-hardcore band from Grand Rapids, Michigan, has undergone many abrupt changes throughout its years-long artistic development. During their formative years, the five-piece transitioned from dissonant blasts with poetic lyrics to music that integrated a wider range of musical influences. The band experimented with jazz, progressive and dynamic changes as they went along. They were interested from the start... read full bio
The ambitious sights and sounds of Andy Black's debut album combine timeless American iconography with broadminded arena bravado of sophisticated pop, devilishly intimate seduction of dark-wave dedication and the biting style of music's sharp-tongued and best-dressed paramours. These elements are combined with crisp leather jackets, vintage Hollywood, teen idols and rebels of every stripe. Andy's music fires a melodic adrenaline shot across the... read full bio
The artist Dora Jar rejects categorization. She has only shared a small number of songs, yet each one of them has stood out, been endlessly fascinating and, quite honestly, been fantastic. They represent an artist with a strong aesthetic vision: to be as expansive, honest and unmistakably herself as humanly possible, from the hammering guitars on "Multiply" to the sinister "Did I... read full bio
The simplest way to characterize Donny Benét, who has been praised and derided by critics as "Prince on a significant budget cut," is that he is the favorite nephew of Giorgio Moroder, Alan Vega and Michael McDonald. Australian-born Benét's debut album Don't Hold Back rapidly made him a cult figure in the country's music scene by perplexing and enthralling many listeners.... read full bio
Curse Your Branches and Strange Negotiations, David Bazan's first two solo albums, were deeply rooted in queries. Questions about religion, relationships, politics and addiction. Bazan is not the place to go if you're searching for art to dispel your doubt. His songs are the tiniest speck of light, the first breath coming up for air and the rest stop on a journey with... read full bio
It is obvious that Southampton's Creeper are operating on a completely different street than the majority of bands, who are content to huddle in the security of the middle of the road. The Southampton Six are once more pushing hard against the limits of the art a "punk" band can be expected to produce with the release of their broad, ambitious and much anticipated... read full bio
A new band will occasionally appear that feels significant, as if they are about to mean something to a large number of people. Crawlers are a band from Liverpool that was founded on an empathetic passion that drives them to stand up, speak out and open their arms to anyone in need of a safe space and community, in addition to their... read full bio
On their debut, No Regerts, Chastity Belt balanced intelligent, edgy music against lyrics that were frequently filled with goofball wit and feminist satire, drawing inspiration from both the politics of the riot grrrl scene and the intricate, moody guitar-based sound of early '90s Pacific Northwestern indie bands like Sleater-Kinney and Autoclave. On their third album, I Used to Spend So... read full bio
The second full-length album by Philadelphia band Caracara, New Preoccupations (As The Gods Descend), is about a relationship with a substance. In specifically, the record is about Will Lindsay, the vocalist and guitarist and his relationship with booze in the face of escalating world hysteria. Moments might be incredibly rich and joyful or dangerous and gloomy. They are merely a component... read full bio
THE BLSSM travels extensively, dividing her time between Sydney, Los Angeles and New York City. The singer-songwriter's capacity to experience voyeurism while remaining grounded in her own version of reality is only upset by her desire to remove the band-aid and display a completely different range of feelings. Her father Mark Lizotte, who helps with guitar arrangements throughout the new EP, and... read full bio
