Archy Marshall, better known by his stage name King Krule has been making music since he was a kid. After going through a few stage names King Krule was the one that stuck when after he released an EP entitled King Krule's EP in 2011. King Krule has been known to mix...
If there is one song in the entire world that I could listen on loop forever, it would be this song. This song appears in one of the best films in the world, In the Mood for Love, where it is repeated several times throughout the film's fairly small soundtrack. Even...
On the 29th of September, the band Protomartyr unleashed their fourth album Relatives In Descent into the world. The album is the band's first “major” indie label release on Domino records. Their previous two albums Agent Intellect and Under Cover of Official...
It's a cold November morning, the time of year when it would still be dark on the bus ride to school. My normal group of neighborhood friends have either missed their buses or have been lovingly driven to school by their mothers; thus leaving me alone to ponder...
Set the scene: you're at a high school party, feeling much cooler in the moment than you ever will looking back on it, when you look over and see someone you kind-of sort-of have a crush on flirting with someone else. Catastrophe. Pandemonium. Later when you go home,...
The emo scene is evolving. It used to be middle schoolers with jet black jagged hair writing Never Shout Never lyrics on their hands. In the early 2010s, it slid into bed with indie rock after a night of too many menthols and PBRs. Out popped greater. This new...
Photo by Rosa Pyo. From left to right: Chris, Mikey, Peter, & Neil Sitting in the back parking lot of Comet Ping Pong, yes the one that had “pizzagate," I sat down with the band Peach Pit, a chewed bubble gum pop band that hails from Vancouver, Canada to ask them...
Photo by Brightest Young Things Okay, but can we talk about The Bam Bams? The duo of Gabriela Torres and Ivy Lopez released their single through DC's own Cricket Cemetery Records in 2012. Although The Bam Bams may have been a shooting star of a band, their music has...
You are missing out if you haven't heard of T-Rextasy. I remember the first time I listened to T-Rextasy: it was not at some house show or tiny venue pressed between other sweaty teens, or even a music recommendation from one of my friends. I was in the gym, working...
Photo by Criterion Production Director, screenwriter, and producer Robert Altman's auteur style can be described as meticulously laid out chaos, with intertwining narratives built to display webs of relationships. Altman applied his vision to a film revolving around...