When I was fifteen years old, I spent hours ripping music from sketchy MP3 song download apps on the Android store. I leaned hard into the indie scene with my own version of theft, as much of the world was inaccessible to me in my suburban sprawl. A product of this time period was an […]
What comes to mind when you think about Malaysia? Perhaps the diverse foods pop into your brain. Maybe you envision the peninsula that encompasses the region. But what if I told you it’s also home to an energetic indie game development scene taking place right as we speak? Persona Theory Games is one of the […]
It started with the Summer 2020 release of her single “I’ll Just Dance” – a simple video of a younger Su Lee breaking out into an interpretive song and dance. Over a layered staccato of her pop-inspired instrumentals, her unfettered lyrics on dancing through overwhelming uncertainty hallmark her style of whimsical melancholy. “This is basically […]
It’s an unbearably hot day. The sweltering heat in Pasadena has reached heights that allowed for drink vendors at 88Rising’s Head in the Clouds fest to charge criminal prices ($15 for a 16 oz drink) — and get away with it. Bullets of sweat bead across virtually every attendee’s hairline in sight and I was […]
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 […]