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Words and photography by Heather Hawke. Kids these days will never truly understand the term “selling out” as it was used toward musicians in the ‘90s/‘00s. Since that was pre social media/iTunes/etc and I grew up in Northern NV (far removed from the music industry/indie music stores) it was when band’s “sold out” and made their […]

Photography by Georges Antoni and Alex Wall. Interview by Heather Hawke. Childhood friends Otis Pavlovic and Royel Maddell formed the band known as Royel Otis in 2019, slowly drip-feeding music into the world during the pandemic. Following the release of the band’s debut EP (2021’s Campus), the Australian duo started experimenting with their sound and reposition it into new shapes moving […]

Article written by Heather Hawke. It’s mid-January and it feels “too late” to release an end of year article from the year prior, but in late December I came up with the idea to ask these artists to do short interviews alongside these fav song picks… So, as they say it’s better late than never, right? […]

Lead photo by Lauryn Alvarez. Introduction by Heather Hawke. Photo captions by the band.  The newly released Expanded Edition of Double Wish’s Light Split Sparkle is out now via Hit the North/Neon Bloodbath and with the addition of four extra tracks – “Say This,” “Pleasure,” “Edge To Edge” and a “Yppah Remix” of “Fever Dream” – the duo’s debut EP shines even brighter. Shifting between […]

Photography and interview by Drew Reynolds. Intro by Heather Hawke. The Chicago based band Horsegirl creates fizzy, guitar-driven garage-pop and the newest track/video, “Dirtbag Transformation (Still Dirty),” off their debut album (Versions of Modern Performance – out now) is proof of that. Chicago is baked into the core of Horsegirl’s debut. The members who make up the band, Nora Cheng (she/her), Penelope Lowenstein […]

Photography and interview by Drew Reynolds. Intro by Heather Hawke. Hailing from Dundalk, Ireland, the five-piece ambitious rock band who intertwines a mind-blowing blend of noise, trip hop and electronic influenced music known as Just Mustard are about to release their second album and first for Partisan Records called Heart Under (out this Friday, May 27). Heart Under incorporates an unrestrained yet cohesive vision: there’s […]

Press images by Joacim Fougner. Album artwork by Laura Julie Brage. Other images and blurbs by Emma Grankvist (aka eee gee). Now based in Brooklyn, the emerging Danish artist Emma Grankvist (who performs under the moniker eee gee) released her debut album, Winning, via Future Classic in February and she describes it as “music for the introvert, who is constantly pushed into the […]

Lead image by Christopher John Keller. Intro by Heather Hawke. Photography and captions by Dylan Meek and Adam Carneol. A few years ago, after a lifetime’s worth of collaboration with so many legends, Dylan Meek started to focus on writing and performing his own original songs. The result is his first self-produced and engineered all original solo record, All I Need, […]

Photography by Drew Reynolds. Interview by Heather Hawke. Last time we spoke to Liam Benzvi it was for our ninth issue back in August 2015 (pg. #76) about Strange Names’ album Use Your Time Wisely. Since then, he released his first solo EP (Amnesia, USA) in October 2019. Now, we catch up with him and dive into the creation / recording […]

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