Al Marantz — Forgotten Device
Al Marantz, the Cambridge-based writer and performer of regularly catchy, lo-fi pop tunes, has a way of reaching into thin air and…
psych pop
JIB KIDDER – “Appetites”
JIB KIDDER. Care about pop music? Personally getting weirder? Feeling like your love of pop may one day directly intersect with you…
RUTH GARBUS – JOULE EP
Gently intoxicating. Know this about RUTH GARBUS‘ latest record, JOULE EP, and really, all of RUTH GARBUS’ music, ever. This daughter of…
GRAPE ROOM – WONKA SPACE 9
Since their first release in 2008, eccentric Brattleboro friends GREAT VALLEY have been nurturing their distinctive brand of weird-pop, rooting themselves in…
ARIEL PINK – POM POM
If you’ve been following ARIEL PINK for a goodly chunk of his career, you know about his leap from hermetic lo-fi weirdo…
UNITED WATERS – “Out Of Flight”
Some pop for the underwater set right straight from the horse’s MOUTHUS. Sorry, UNITED WATERS (an NYC trio featuring Brain Sullivan of…
JIB KIDDER – IV
JIB KIDDER. Was just talking with my friend Zach about his current band CE SCHNEIDER TOPICAL (a duo with Christina Schneider) coming up for…
WHITE FENCE – “Like This”
HASSLE FEST 3 (nee HOMEGROWN FEST) vets WHITE FENCE put out a beaut of an LP on DRAG CITY a little ways…
AL MARANTZ – NEXT TO CHRISTIE’S
Next To Christie’s is the latest album to drop from the psychedelic cloud of Boston’s psych-pop wunderkind Al Marantz. Marantz has come…
BETH ISRAEL – DENTAL DENIAL
This one was released earlier in the year, and is another record that I’ve listened to a ton, but just hadn’t gotten…
WHITE FENCE — “LIKE THAT”
A little over a year after the release of Cyclops Reap, psych-pop wunderkind White Fence is slated to release For The Recently…
OFFICIAL HASSLE FEST 5 VIDS: STREET GNAR
Kentucky’s STREET GNAR makes pop that is simultaneously vast and concise. Sometimes the hooks are as simple as a millisecond arpeggio like…
