“Will you be the 7th Generation Mutation?” | The Story of St. John Green
The year is 1968. The cultural revolution of the late 1960s is in full swing, and rock music is its experimental, ever-evolving psychedelic soundtrack. In this moment of...
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Penny Rimbaud and Louise Elliott on Intuition, Time and the Making of ‘Touch Is Hold’
In the summer of 2012, Penny Rimbaud and Louise Elliott entered the studio with a shared instinct that music, when made with trust, could reach beyond the ordinary...
A Journey Through Clockwork Flowers
Clockwork Flowers exists in a liminal space where time folds back on itself like the turning petals of a cosmic bloom. They began in the rustic mountains of...
Snake Walk with Harvey Mandel
Some musicians are slippery. You think you’ve got them pegged, then they turn a corner and you’re lost again. They play with the greats but they’re not just...
Universe ’71: Welsh Ultra-Rare Heavy Rock Unearthed
The incredibly rare, self-titled album by Universe is finding its way back onto shelves, thanks to a recent reissue from Ancient Grease Records. What's even more fascinating is...
Martin Saint’s ‘Seekers’: Film Noir Letters from the Fog
Martin Saint's latest solo record, 'The Seekers,' hums like an exposed wire, warm to the touch and faintly dangerous. These are songs born in solitude but made to...
Edmonton’s Original Punks: The Nerve
There’s something about the Canadian prairie that makes good bands weird and weird bands unforgettable. Isolation breeds invention, but it also breeds a particular kind of aggression. Maybe...
Jonathan Richman Reflects on His New Album ‘Only Frozen Sky Anyway’
Jonathan Richman’s 'Only Frozen Sky Anyway' isn't a loud declaration. It is something rarer: a quiet and cohesive unfolding of songs that seem to arise from the atmosphere...
BUNNIES Interviewed: Inside the ‘Horror Spectrum’
Somewhere between a swamp hallucination and a small-town government meeting gone to seed, BUNNIES have carved a record that gurgles and spits its way through what they simply...
Brooklyn’s Tokens: Beyond ‘The Lion Sleeps Tonight’
Brooklyn high school corridors in 1955 buzzed with a quiet magic. There, a quartet dubbed the Linc Tones, featuring young Neil Sedaka, Jay Siegel, and Hank Medress among...