Aug 23, 2023
By Ian Rushbury
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Unlike many of his contemporaries, Lloyd Cole started and has never stopped. Through peaks and troughs, he has beaten his own path to wherever he wanted to go. More
Aug 22, 2023
By Kyle Mullin
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Beverly Glenn-Copeland has every reason not to be so cheery. After all, the 80-year-old new-age virtuoso’s music went overlooked for decades. That is, until a Japanese collector unearthed Glenn-Copeland’s 1986 album Keyboard Fantasies in 2015, prompting a rush of belated label interest. More
Aug 18, 2023
By Celine Teo-Blockey
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After almost 15 years as one half of Best Coast, Bethany Cosentino has put the band that defined much of her adult life on indefinite hiatus to strike out on her own, exploring this new landscape that was now her personal and creative life. More
Aug 17, 2023
By Celine Teo-Blockey
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What happens when a teenager befriends an older man on the internet? This scenario is every parent’s nightmare and in What Comes Around, a psychological thriller that unspools inside a family drama, director Amy Redford eschews old tropes, allowing the narrative space to tread down unexpected paths even as the online relationship takes a sinister turn. More
Jul 28, 2023
By Kelcey Ayer
Issue #70 - My Favorite Movie (Sharon Van Etten and Ezra Furman)
My all-time favorite movie is a bat-shit sci-fi film called The Fifth Element. It’s one of the most creative, fun, insane movies ever made, and I can’t believe this was only Luc Besson’s second English language film (he went from Léon: The Professional to this). More
Jul 27, 2023
By Mark Moody
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I’ve never been a runner or had any inkling to consider the prospects of becoming one. But, one can certainly envision the clear head space that pounding the pavement on a deliberate path forward must create. And it was in that mode that band manager/label owner Dave Cronen first caught wind of a series of BBC recording sessions that the legendary songwriter Daniel Johnston produced. More
Jul 24, 2023
By Matt Fink
Issue #71 - Weyes Blood and Black Belt Eagle Scout
In the summer of 2018, when live clips started circulating of an impossibly young London quartet performing unimaginably complicated arrangements with an equally unimaginable precision, they looked more like a viral marketing deepfake than a real band. More
Jul 20, 2023
By Dom Gourlay
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Leeds five-piece Treeboy & Arc put out their long-awaited debut “Natural Habitat” earlier this month so we got the lowdown on the album and the band’s future plans. More
Jul 19, 2023
By Lee Campbell
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Cowboy Junkies broke through in 1988 with their epic The Trinity Session LP and have been creating spell-binding music, spearheaded by the unique voice of Margo Timmins, across five decades.
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