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21/09/2021

On Telyscopes' 13th experimental indie pop album, Spectacol ///, the show must go on--and by "show," of course we mean catastrophic explosions, panther attacks, and prion diseases: https://bit.ly/TASE-TSF

“I need a change of pace, loss of face,” sings experimental Philly artist Jack Hubbell on the first track from the 13th Telyscopes album, Spectacol ///. “I need an unpaid vacation that never ends.”…

17/09/2021

“The album is about exploration and travel to different worlds and realities...I had no idea what reality we would be living in when this finally sees release.”

PREMIERE: Out now on Ratskin Records, "Skywriter" flies Headboggle to the edge of synth space: https://bit.ly/TASE-HBP

23/08/2021

"The scariest part of art now is that it’s being made with the presumption of it having commerciality. That always existed with pop music, but now it exists with all music. Like somehow, as an artist, you’re supposed to also be presentable to somebody’s mom."

We talked to Darrin Bradbury about art as commodity and reaching for his New Jersey indie rock roots on his new album, Artvertisement: https://bit.ly/TASE-DBI2

Photo by Weston Heflin Without really knowing it, I got a teaser for Darrin Bradbury’s new album back in 2019. We were discussing his sophomore full-length (and his debut on ANTI- Records), T…

10/08/2021

"I’m just looking forward to all folkies–musicians, people in the industry, fans–being less square as time goes on."

Cindy Howes and new guest host Lizzie No of the Basic Folk podcast on conducting complex interviews, expanding the show, and the future of folk (oh, also their hidden talents and thoughts on strip club karaoke): https://bit.ly/TASE-BFPI

When folk musician Lizzie No first appeared on the Basic Folk podcast in November of 2020, host Cindy Howes asked her about the trepidation she’d once felt as a Black woman taking up roots music; N…

02/08/2021

"I was like, 'Alright, this could be long, and I better start working on something so that I don’t lose my s**t.'"

From his English basement apartment in DC, Roger Poulin of Binding Spell spent lockdown crafting a pocket post-punk universe: https://bit.ly/TASE-BSI

When it comes to production, DC artist Roger Poulin, aka Binding Spell, is a proponent of making do with what you have. Though his new album English Basement makes him sound like an interstellar vo…

26/07/2021

“I started to really notice our region’s dependency on religion and on the oil industry.”

PREMIERE: In the eight-minute epic "Refinery" (title track from his debut album as Slow Rosary) Rene Duplantier finds a new perspective on his Louisiana hometown: https://bit.ly/TASE-SRF

When folk rock singer/songwriter Rene Duplantier moved home to southeast Louisiana from Phoenix, it gave him a new perspective on the culture he’d been raised in. “I started to really notice our re…

19/07/2021

"It’s scary to think what’s going on here now, but this idea of looking towards the future...there is a little bit of anxiety, but there’s also a little bit of excitement."

We talked to VA indie jam quintet Kendall Street Company about their space rock opus, The Year The Earth Stood Still: https://bit.ly/TASE-KSCI

Since 2013, Kendall Street Company had played over 100 shows a year on average–that is, until 2020. But at the height of the pandemic, the hard-working five-piece Charlottesville indie rock b…

13/07/2021

"It's sick. I think I could spend the rest of my life just looking at different Venezuelan subgenres, trying to figure out what's going on, and interpreting it."

NYC producer Slic talks new single "Ez" and the influence of Miami's Latin techno scene: https://bit.ly/TASE-SLIC2

In their first live performance under the stage name Slic, Cami Dominguez slinks in and out of the rosy-tiled doorway of a New York apartment bathroom, twisting k***s, cueing up gritty industrial b…

08/07/2021

"There’s an awesome connection and transformation that occurs when we’re together unlike any creative outlet I’ve ever experienced."

We talked to LASKA about the midwest/west coast indie pop band's deep kinship, and the spooky summer ambience of their new EP, Fader: https://bit.ly/TASE-LASKA

If you’ve ever had to talk yourself down from a bad case of Sunday scaries, LASKA’s “Summer Spiral” may sound familiar. “Get a grip, not too quick, it’s never your fault,” chants singer/violinist B…

25/06/2021

Dynamic Pittsburgh dream pop band The Real Sea 🌊 debut with "Paper Machete" 🗡

Singer/guitarist Sharon Mok describes it as “a kind of allegory for male fragility, specifically white male fragility. The yin and yang of frailty and brutal, society-driven machismo.”

Read more: https://bit.ly/TASE-TRSF

When Pittshburgh dream pop band The Real Sea was founded, they took their name from the Sylvia Plath poem “Two Lovers and a Beachcomber by the Real Sea.” “The first songs we wrote together were chi…

18/06/2021

On "Silver Cup," New York singer/songwriters Emma Freeman and Aaron David Gleason turn a TikTok duet into a shiny green indie pop single: https://bit.ly/TASE-EFF

Under pandemic conditions, the TikTok duet has proven to be one of the most potent tools for musical team-ups. You can add your voice to a choir of “Wellerman” harmonies or, as singer/songwriter an…

04/06/2021

"We wanted that dance-in-the-field-with-your-best-friends vibe, which I think we created!”

Check out our premiere of "U" by trombonist turned R&B singer/songwriter Jason Jamal, off his upcoming EP Sweet (Grimalkin Records): https://bit.ly/TASE-JJF

Photo by Lucienne Nghiem On “U,” the first single from his upcoming EP Sweet, Jason Jamal invokes the language of classical music to describe the ecstatic rush of attraction. “Sorry if I’m buggin’,…

03/06/2021

On Simple Syrup, singer/songwriter and awe-inspiring guitarist Sunny War sets up dichotomies just to knock them down, true to her name--it's enveloping, but also impenetrable. Smooth, but also sticky.

Read our full review: https://bit.ly/TASE-SWR

Photo by Florencia P Marano “There’s angels, there’s demons / it’s true we both fall somewhere in between,” sang Sunny War on “Xo,” the closer from her 2019 record Shell of a Girl. One of the L.A. …

20/05/2021

"There was no place we went that we didn’t feel like we were grappling with really big questions...all of that ended up in the music."

During a turbulent summer, Bandits On The Run crossed the country in a camper van to record their new EP, Now Is The Time. We sat down with them to talk about the magical mystery of their latest single, "Spellbound": https://bit.ly/TASE-BTRI

Six years back, the story goes, guitarist Adrian Enscoe met cellist Sydney Shepherd while busking in a New York City subway station. Soon after, the two added Regina Strayhorn on accordion, melodic…

13/05/2021

"I love my band, but we are different people...we make music together that we love, but I felt like I got to be myself and not hold back."

On their solo debut (out Friday on Quiet Year Records), Kendra Sells of neo-jazz band BluMoon turns inward and lets loose with genre and song structure--plus their frustration with a broken healthcare system: https://bit.ly/TASE-KSI

In December of 2020, Austin-based artist Kendra Sells emerged from a period of lockdown-induced creativity with their debut solo single, “u n me.” It was a lo-fi take on the soul and neo-jazz fusio…

29/04/2021

"So Gone," the debut single by TrixxStarr (Chihuahua, Les Biches) is good old fashioned windows-down power pop--recorded by Jack Hubbell of Telyscopes in intercoastal, intergenerational solidarity: http://bit.ly/TASE-DSR

Social media is really good at setting off disingenuous inter-generational beefs, so it’s nice every now and then to see a bridge built. A few years ago, Gen-X Anaheim indie rocker Dusty Starr met …

23/04/2021

To set an example for her youth mentorship initiative, D.C. singer/songwriter Emma G spent the month of February writing a new song every day.

Ahead of the premiere of her new album and documentary Born in Crisis: Turning Struggle Into Song, learn more about her story: https://bit.ly/TASE-EGF

Life as a working musician in a pandemic has meant something different for everyone. For some, it’s meant shifting to live performance by stream, and for others, it’s been an opportunity to share u…

16/04/2021

"A lot of people had never even done sample-based music before, and to see that this is something people are vibing with is amazing.”

Mags, founder of Loop Sessions DMV, walks us through the past and future of the production challenge series bringing together beatmakers from across the globe: http://bit.ly/TASE-LSDF

Since 2016, Montreal’s Loop Sessions event series has been bringing together DJs and producers, spiraling out to spinoff chapters in 18 cities across the globe. Now beatmakers from Maryland, Virgin…

09/04/2021

"It’s really easy to make something overwhelming. It’s really hard to make it sound simple and still do everything you want."

We talked to Brooklyn indie duo Fake Dad about the pseudo-sampling of their lo-fi-inspired debut EP, Old Baby: https://bit.ly/TASE-FDI

Without meaning to, Josh Ford and Andrea de Varona of Fake Dad became lo-fi gearheads in the making of their debut EP, Old Baby. Over Zoom, the Brooklyn duo gave me the tour of their home recording…

06/04/2021

“I was always a naturally very shy person when it came to speaking up and naming my feelings, taking up space. My music does that, like, times 1,000 now.”

Hear from Qween Paz on their roundabout road to picking up guitar and the new single "Hold On Up," out now on Grimalkin Records : https://bit.ly/TASE-QPF

“Hold On Up,” the new single by Qween Paz, carries all the easygoing cool of a spring breeze–and all the crisp, unexpected sharpness. The South Texas indie pop artist wrote it about learning …

29/03/2021

"If you’re not aware of these things, you can be an incredible artist and never get paid for anything, and that sucks!"

We talked to singer/songwriter Paulina Vo about her life as a music publishing sleuth, R&B dream teams, & playing Game Boy Color in her childhood closet: https://bit.ly/TASE-PVI

At the right moment, a happy song can be especially cathartic, and that’s certainly true of “Sweetie,” the latest single from Brooklyn singer/songwriter Paulina Vo. In press for the track, she’s of…

22/03/2021

“We've slowly come to understand how similarly we've been stuck in the in-between of what was expected of us, from either our families, peers, or ourselves."

Noah Kim (No Algorithm) and Khal Malik (Bedtime Khal) break down the lo-fi emo magic of their duo debut, Sideria: http://bit.ly/TASE-SIDF

There’s nothing like an artistic partnership built on shared influences; you can learn as much about the other person as you do about yourself, seeing your favorite bands through someone else’s eye…

18/03/2021

“The stuff that gets me excited isn't writing my own version of 'this type of song.' It’s the potential to build something so affecting that structure doesn't matter."

lohrd snohw and Kate Brunotts chase the unknown in their new cross-pond co-produced singles: https://bit.ly/TASE-LSKBF

“Split Lip” cover art by Manny Jean Along with, well, everything else, 2020 was the year UK artist Cazzie Winterton–aka Lohrd Snohw–took a plunge into the unknown and starte…

15/03/2021

"Basically, I’m just always seeking out people who are in a place of not shaming people for not knowing things."

After the release of her EP "Soundtrack," we talked to Mountainess about supportive environments for music coordinating and engineering: https://bit.ly/TASE-MI

Photo by Sasha Pedro There’s an archetype in musical theater called the “I want” or “I wish” song–it comes early on in the hero’s journey and clues the audience into their motivations. Though…