Traversing your early 20’s can be an extremely difficult challenge for many. Caught between college and your first ‘professional’ job, these first few years of full blown independence are almost impossible to figure out. Sam Pine explores these feelings of uncertainty and feeling caught up in his own personal anxieties and the changing tumultuous world around him on the songs that make up his debut album Evergreen. A trendy Bedroom Pop album, Evergreen was crafted entirely fr

Grief hits people in a myriad of ways, whether it’s taking time away from the world that surrounds us, or getting stuck into a creative endeavor right away, we all have our own way of dealing with loss. When Lucie Murphy’s father passed away, Lucy got to work writing songs for the album that would eventually become Vestiges. For those unaware, vestiges means a fragment of something that no longer exists. Within the 11 tracks on Poise’s latest record, we see Murphy coping and

As artists, feeling burnt out with your creative output is something that is all too common. It can be difficult to continue a project for many people when they feel this way, especially when you are in a musical group. In 2016, Losers released the album How To Ruin Other People’s Futures to critical acclaim. The group had ideas, but didn’t know where to go with them. Feeling creatively jaded, one of the members of the group, Tom Bellamy attended Barcelona’s fantastic music f

Being a part of a community of like minded people is great, but what happens when you grow up and realize that there is more to life and your creativity that this community can’t give you? Hailing from Long Island, and growing up in the music and arts scene there, Karah Goldstein, or Smol Data, asks this question and many other questions like it on her new record Inconvenience Store. Throughout the course of half an hour, Smol Data treats listeners to a tale as old as time, t

Some of the most formative moments of my musical taste have come by way of playing sport video games when I was younger. I still play some of these songs and listen to them on repeat to this day. I would spend hours playing games like FIFA and Madden, not because I loved the gameplay, but because I was so entranced by the musical selections in these menus. The music I enjoy now is very much informed by my love of the tracks that graced these games in the mid 2000’s and the ea

Painting Over Mold by Graham Hunt feels like putting on a blanket that you’ve had in your attic for years, but forgotten all about. It feels like something that you’ve interacted with before, but know you haven’t. Graham has a way of connecting his music to people unlike any musician that I have seen before. There is a sense of familiarity, but yet uncertainty throughout the entirety of Painting Over Mold that I’m not sure anyone else could possibly recreate. The Madison base

For many artists, attempting to traverse unknown ground can be a big creative challenge that some give a thought to, but never act upon it because they are too scared or unconfident. For Frances Tait, this is not the case. Frances has been an active member of Melbourne’s rich music scene, playing in psychedelic surf rock groups, jazz bands, and blues groups. With his new project, Quality Used Cars, he conquers a new sound, and fronts a more straightforward singer/ songwriter

When we look back at the year 2020, it is safe to say that there will always be one thing that immediately jumps into everyone's head. The Coronavirus pandemic has affected almost everyone in some shape, and has caused some people great depression. It is safe to say that this year has challenged everyone in some way. We often forget to think about the people around us though and how they are dealing with the world as we know it. For The Big Easy vocalist and guitarist, Steven

Mind transforming experiences are hard to come by. On Intellect, Vermont based post-punk band, Pons promises an experience that is almost seemingly connected to the brain. It is written all over the identity of the band, as their name is taken from a part of the brain. The album cover features brains. The album title is Intellect, which again is another term closely associated with the brain. Will you feel a grand transformation after listening to this record? In some way, ma

Not many releases quite sound like a long lost relic of the past quite like Hunger For A Way Out by Sweeping Promises. This record takes everything that was fun and exciting about the beginnings of the New Wave movement from the late 70’s and early 80’s and really run with it on this new record. While not reinventing the genre in any way, Sweeping Promises sound like a band who was right at the forefront of a new sound and time travel to 2020 to bless our ears with their take