Sep 25, 2014
By Mike Hilleary
Garfunkel and Oates
Riki Lindhome and Kate Micucci would make an excellent case study in contrast. It’s not just the fact that the musical comedy duo otherwise known as Garfunkel and Oates differ from one another in looks and personality—Lindhome being tall, blonde, and talkative while Micucci is small, brunette, and admittedly shy—the L.A.-based duo have made an unlikely name for themselves delivering foul-mouthed and bitingly honest songs that guise themselves under girlishly sweet melodies. More
Sep 24, 2014
By Laura Studarus
Issue #50 - June/July 2014 - Future Islands
Future Islands frontman Samuel T. Herring is in a good mood. He punctuates his sentences with laughter, and even across an occasionally static phone connection (Herring is driving a rented tour van from Florida to Maryland before the band embarks on the next leg of shows) you can almost hear his wide grin. More
Sep 23, 2014
By Laura Studarus
Issue #50 - June/July 2014 - Future Islands
It’s the night after Future Islands’ network television debut on The Late Show, and David Letterman is trying not to laugh. “Let’s dance!” he declares, after a joke about a candy store falls flat. The shot cuts to footage from the band’s performance, featuring frontman Samuel T. Herring’s theatrical, sidestepping dance moves. More
Sep 22, 2014
By Austin Trunick
Issue #51 - September/October 2014 - alt-J
Fox’s Gotham takes an approach to the Batman mythos that’s unique outside of comics: it doesn’t feature Batman at all. The new television series takes place many years before the Caped Crusader watched over Gotham and focuses on the mythical city itself; on the young hero and villains that fans will recognize as Gotham’s future power players. More
Sep 19, 2014
By Frank Valish
The Death of Pop
After playing in various bands throughout their youth, Angus James and his brother Oliver (Ollie) began writing songs over the Christmas holiday in 2012. When the first two songs they had written, “Nowhere” and “Don’t Hang Around,” were discovered by British blog Crack in the Road, Angus (guitar/vocals/keys) and Oliver (guitar/vocals) recruited their other brother Thom (drums), as well as Isaac Jones (bass) and George Abram (a non-musical fifth member of the band who assists in writing and does the band’s artwork) and started a proper band. More
