Get to your nearest mall and head to Hot Topic because it’s 2022 and pop punk has returned in force. Among the influx of bands rejuvenating the scene, there’s Orlando based Ivypaint. Fronted by lead singer Sean Duong, Ivypaint’s infectious brand of energetic melancholy eagerly fills the big shoes of any band that would be […]
The walls of Captain Quackenbush’s Coffeehouse were shaking as indie rock veterans +/- (Plus Minus) threw their entire weight into the venue miles away from Austin’s downtown. Although the crowd was small, it was fiercely loyal. +/- is cut from the same fiber that weaved indie rock giants including Versus and Sonic Youth. They’ve toured […]
On I Just Want to Be Wild For You, the sophomore album of Portland-based indie-rocker MAITA (Maria Maita-Keppler), there’s a buzzy energy that lends itself to both introspection as well as liberating rock-out jams. Songs like the cold album opener “Loneliness,” the observant “Blue Has Gone Gray,” and the witty “Light Of My Life (Cell […]
It’s no exaggeration to say that music and film have always been connected. Their unity has always been integral to each other’s success and an audience’s understanding of characters, places, and stories, real or otherwise. Omoiyari uses the power of music and film to connect us to the significant, painful, and ongoing reckoning of Japanese […]
Appropriately, the slate of films at SXSW 2022 featured many intimate stories about music. Among them was Alice Gu’s sonically soothing documentary Really Good Rejects. Really Good Rejects focuses on Reuben Cox, a luthier (guitar maker) who is the mutual link between artists such as Phoebe Bridgers, Andrew Bird, Hand Habits, and The National — […]