Dec 11, 2015 By Laura Studarus Web Exclusive

The melancholic odes that make up GEMS’ debut album Kill the One You Love exist in a twilight land, etched out of a cascade of ones and zeros. More

Dec 02, 2015 By Mike Hilleary Wolf Alice

Sitting in the lobby of a Best Western hotel just a few hours before his band will perform a sold-out show at Austin, TX’s Holy Mountain music venue, Wolf Alice guitarist Joff Oddie says he recently experienced a bit of an epiphany: since vocalist Ellie Rowsell first found and contacted him through local online classifieds back in 2010, the London outfit—also featuring bassist Theo Ellis and drummer Joel Amey—have already released two EPs; performed across the U.K. countless times; appeared on the bill of numerous large-scale festivals including SXSW, Reading and Leeds, and Glastonbury; opened for alt-J across Europe; and toured the U.S. on four separate occasions, all without a full-length album to their name. More

Nov 19, 2015 By Natasha Aftandilians Bully

Alicia Bognanno is tired. You can practically hear her rubbing the sleep out of her eyes, even through the static of the phone. Luckily that weariness is buoyed out of annoyance by her ineffable excitement for where her life is currently headed. More

Nov 13, 2015 By Lily Moayeri HÆLOS

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts, and that adage can be applied to fresh British trio HÆLOS. The threesome, while still in their 20s, have a lengthy and varied collective resume: Lotti Benardout featured on tracks from Redlight, Gorgon City’s Foamo, and Kidnap Kid; Arthur Delaney headed up Born Blonde; and Dom Goldsmith was a central figure in the spacey beats outfit Get People. More

Nov 06, 2015 By Nina Corcoran LA Priest

Despite being far removed from current trends, LA Priest is remarkably in tune with them. Sam Dust lives in a field outside Welshpool, England, where he’s so far from the city that wandering donkeys and the occasional peacock are his closest neighbors. Then, to make things more intense, he ditched the Internet for more than half a decade. He is, to say the least, focused on his craft. More

Oct 30, 2015 By Laura Studarus Jaakko Eino Kalevi

Although only now being introduced to an international audience, Finnish singer/songwriter Jaakko Eino Kalevi would like to clear up a few misconceptions. First, even though the former tram driver makes cinematic pop and played a carefree character, cavorting with a pack of comely ladies in the surrealistic video for his single “Deeper Shadows,” More

Sep 04, 2015 By Mike Hilleary Briana Marela

The daughter of a Peruvian father and American mother, Marela grew up listening to a mix of traditional folk music. Though she took up the acoustic guitar and began writing her own songs in high school, it wasn’t until Marela presented and played a four song EP for a senior project that her classmates even became aware of her extracurricular interest. More

Aug 21, 2015 By Mike Hilleary Wolf Alice

Going to school in London Ellie Rowsell knew she wanted to be in a band. Unfortunately none of the people she knew within her immediate social circle could even put a few chords together on guitar or play the drums. More

Aug 05, 2015 By Michael Wojtas Jacco Gardner

“I really like when something crosses over between worlds, to a place where it’s not completely innocent anymore, and gets kind of weird, psychedelic and scary,” explains Jacco Gardner. More