CHATTING WITH PARROT DREAM AFTER THEIR WAKING WINDOWS SET
“It’s fun to play festivals, because you kind of never know what’s going to happen,” said Kiki (a.k.a. Christina Appel) of the indie-psych-dream-pop band…
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COMPLEXITY DRESSED AS SIMPLICITY: ONR. FINDS HIS VOICE
In story and in song, sometimes the most compelling, resonant conclusion is the one that’s left to the mind’s eye. Inspired to write from…
JORDAN COOK ON REIGNWOLF’S FIERY DEBUT LP: ‘IT’S NOT JUST MINE, IT’S EVERYBODY’S’
A moment in time has been sticking in my head like a needle on a dusty record ever since Reignwolf showered Brooklyn in their…
BACKSTAGE WITH WELLES: ‘ANY KID CAN MAKE ROCK & ROLL’
Jesse Wells is the coolest paradox. The music of Welles is an intense storm of sound and emotion that steals all your attention, and…
JOE TALBOT ON IDLES’ DYNAMIC, PROCESS & MORE: ‘WE MAKE EACH OTHER LAUGH ALL THE TIME’
When I called IDLES frontman Joe Talbot, I could hear a few seconds of guitar fuzz and laughter before he found a quiet place…
STEVEN PAGE SHARES SONGWRITING STORIES & BNL MEMORIES
When a voice you remember from well-loved, scratched-up CDs you borrowed for too long and felt very cool possessing at a single-digit age says…
WHAT FANS OF WELLES SHOULD KNOW: ‘YOU DON’T HAVE TO WORRY’
“It wasn’t a rap at first,” he joked. “When I wrote it, it was about twenty clicks slower, so all those words were just…
INTERVIEW: UME RISE REBORN LIKE A PHOENIX FROM THE ASHES
Austin, Texas’ rock outfit UME spent several years as the indie scene’s darling band of rising stars not so long ago, but a few…
WELLES’ DEBUT ALBUM ‘RED TREES AND WHITE TRASHES’ IS A ROCK LOVER’S DREAM
“Dust me off like a jar of fire, declare me as your friend. It’s been done before, and we’re doing it now, and I’m…
VISTA KICKS OVER WHISKEY: ‘PEOPLE SHOULD LOVE EACH OTHER MORE’
In no time at all, they’d revealed the title of their new album, offered up headphones for a first peek at a new track,…