Dec 23, 2013 By Frank Valish Web Exclusive

Gabriel Fulvimar is positively jazzed. The singer/guitarist/mastermind behind the indie garage-synth outfit Gap Dream is waiting to see the covers of his band’s sophomore album,Shine Your Light, and he can barely contain his excitement. More

Dec 17, 2013 By Frank Valish Issue #48 - November/December 2013 - HAIM

Two childhood memories seem to subconsciously inform, or perhaps retroactively explain, Younghusband frontman Euan Hinshelwood’s path thus far in music. More

Dec 04, 2013 By Dan Lucas Web Exclusive

Few artists can have made left turns quite so dramatically as William Doyle. Two years ago I saw him live as the frontman of Doyle & The Fourfathers, a kind of ‘90s revivalist pop outfit; earlier this year, though, under the moniker of East India Youth, he released the Hostel EP, a record of dizzyingly vast electronic soundscapes that owed more to Krautrock than Britpop. More

Nov 22, 2013 By Mike Hilleary Issue #47 - September/October 2013 - MGMT

While particularly verbose in conversation, needing only the simplest prompt to launch into the details of his life and work, songwriter and composer Ellis Ludwig-Leone is completely silent as a frontman. More

Nov 19, 2013 By Laura Studarus NONONO

NONONO producers-turned-band members Tobias “Astma” Jimson and Michel Rocwell have been working with hip-hop luminaries for over 10 years in their native Sweden. So perhaps, on some level, it’s appropriate to say that Swedish pop trio NONONO arrived with significantly more experience than the average musical newbies. More

Nov 15, 2013 By Mike Hilleary HAERTS

If they were ever to fuse their collective DNA in some future sci-fi experiment, the members of HAERTS are in full agreement that their resulting progeny would be unlike any other. “It would be beautiful,” laughs frontwoman and vocalist Christina “Nini” Fabi. “But I would have to give birth to it, don’t forget.” More

Nov 12, 2013 By Dan Lucas Issue #47 - September/October 2013 - MGMT

About an hour’s train ride north of London, Kettering, England has the country’s second oldest theme park, was once a hotbed for Britain’s boot and shoe industry until many of the factories closed in the 1970s and ‘80s, and was visited several times by Hollywood actor Clark Gable during World War II (he was stationed at a nearby air base), but it isn’t particularly well-known for its music scene. More

Nov 08, 2013 By Austin Trunick Postiljonen

The cool, breathless dream pop on Postiljonen‘s debut, Skyer, has a transportive quality to it. Their rolling synthesizer lines and love for big, audacious saxophone solos may call back to some of the 1980s’ cheesier pop songs, but in this producer trio’s skilled hands, it never feels anything but earnest and modern. It’s their sound’s ability to induce nostalgia that gave the project its name.

Nov 05, 2013 By Tyler Huckabee Issue #47 - September/October 2013 - MGMT

Talking to Aluna Francis, you get the idea she was born to do this sort of thing. She sounds thoughtful without being pretentious, candid without appearing bitter, and articulate without sounding canned. Simply put, she seems like the sort of person who should be famous. More