Charli XCX

Although Slayyyter’s May 25th gig at The Foundry at The Fillmore is technically sold out (along with much of the rest of the tour), as of right now, there are “Verified Resale Tickets” currently going for $23.  The date is the second-to-last of her current US headlining tour, which...

Singer/songwriter Al Olender describes the songs of her debut album (Easy Crier, which dropped this past Friday, May 13th) as, “Storytelling truth bombs,” and, “Folky, indie, yummy earworms.”  “I just want to connect with as many people as I can,” she tells me during a recent phone chat.  The...

Last week Australian dream pop singer/songwriter Hatchie released her sophomore LP, Giving The World Away, courtesy of Secretly Canadian (Cherry Glazerr, Faye Webster, Skullcrusher).  Although the album follows-up 2019’s Keepsake, Hatchie has said it feels like a restart of sorts.  Without losing any of the charm of Keepsake or...

This coming Friday, April 29th, Baby Tate (formerly known as Yung Baby Tate) is set to drop dual single “Dancing Queen”/“Yasss Queen,” also known as The Queen Pack.  However, the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection was treated to live renditions of the two tracks last Monday, April...

Over the past decade, New York-based art-rock outfit Guerilla Toss has gained a reputation for more or less reinventing themselves with every release…  And last month the band released Famously Alive, their fifth full-length and first on Sub Pop.  The album, while embracing the noisier elements of their past,...

This Monday ALT 104.5 made the announcement that Incubus and Sublime with Rome will be coming to Waterfront Music Pavilion Friday, August 5th.  However, the announcement failed to emphasize the very coolest band on the bill, The Aquadolls, who will be handling opening duties…  But don’t worry, for those...

The last time I spoke to Mica Tenenbaum, one-half of electro-based, experimental indie-pop duo Magdalena Bay (whose biggest influences include Gwen Stefani, Britney Spears, Charli XCX, and Grimes), was in March of 2020, when the band was just about to kick off sold-out tours supporting Yumi Zouma and Kero...

Upon asking them if they’ve noticed patterns amongst their fans and earliest supporters, BLACKSTARKIDS tell me, “They’re always really cool every time.  There must be a correlation .”  The band, that oozes early 2000s nostalgia, kick out a brand of jams that Alternative Press characterized as a “sunny version...

Last March, just before sold-out tours supporting Kero Kero Bonito and Yumi Zouma were cancelled due to the pandemic, Mica Tenenbaum of LA-based electro indie-pop duo Magdalena Bay told me, “We really love pop music and it’s obvious and we hope that that shows through.  I mean, we’re solidly...