GEAR // MARCOS MENA ON PARTNERING UP WITH GROUND CONTROL AUDIO, INNOVATION IN THE PEDAL INDUSTRY, AND USING SOCIAL MEDIA TO EDU-TAIN THE MASSES
Marcos Mena, who many of us know from standards, is generally known for two things – one, playing...
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NEW MUSIC // OTHER LIGHT ENSEMBLE MAKE POETRY FROM CHAOS ON NEW BLUE TAPES SINGLE “BODY OF RITUAL TAPESTRY”
Other Light Ensemble is a cinematic, generally avant garde jazz collective that sort of defies central location. The...
NEW MUSIC // CATS AND CATS AND CATS TO RETURN TO ARCTANGENT THIS YEAR AFTER REFORMATION AND REMASTERS FOR VICTORIALAND AND SWEET DRUNK EVERYONE
This year discerning old heads might have seen a name they haven’t seen in some time popping up...
NOT ANOTHER FECKING GIG REVIEW // TOEHIDER, CLOSURE IN MOSCOW, AND NO SUCH ANIMAL AT THE URBAN LOUNGE
(Editors’s Note: Some of the video we took went straight to our Insta feed because we shot it...
GAMES // BRIAN GIBSON OF LIGHTNING BOLT ON COMPOSING FOR THRASHER, THE PERILS OF VIRTUAL REALITY, AND HOW DEVELOPING GAMES CAN BE JUST AS FUN AS PLAYING THEM
Brian Gibson is a name a lot of our readers are already familiar with – as half of...
GAMES // INTERVIEW: KELSEY JETTER OF GAME RAVEN REVIEWS ON THE HALLMARKS OF INDIE GAMING, STRUCTURES OF POWER IN THE INDUSTRY, AND HOW LIFE WAS NEVER THE SAME AFTER STAR WARS: KNIGHTS OF THE OLD REPUBLIC
When it comes to gaming, “indie” is a bit of a buzzword at this point, but as is...
NEW MUSIC // GET A NEW FAVORITE BACKPACK FROM VANR
For clarity’s sake, we don’t know at press time if VANR are offering backpacks as merch to coincide...
GAMES // WE REVISIT THE UNLIKELY MATH ROCK ORIGIN STORY OF SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK! MATH ROCK
We’ve probably all heard it at some point, at least the millennial math rockers among us have –...
NEW MUSIC // GET LUSH WITH COMPREHENDING AND THEIR NEW SINGLE “FLOURISH”
Uppsala, Sweden’s Comprehending has long been, essentially, the music of John Pettersson as a solo artist. Solo projects...
EXCLUSIVE // JOSEPH ANDREOLI OF GIRAFFES? GIRAFFES! DROPS INTO SOLO BANGER MODE WITH “KICKFLIP THAT COFFIN AND ASCEND!!! (THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING TOTALLY FUCKING GHOSTED)”
Giraffes? Giraffes!, in case you’ve been living under a math rock, is one of the genre’s most influential...