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Although best known as vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter for New York indie poppers The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Kip Berman has spent recent years embracing a different sort of lifestyle… parenting, husbanding, but also making a slightly different kind of sound as The Natvral. Earlier this year,...
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Miss Madeline is every pop star you’ve ever wanted to be rolled into one. She’s decadently raunchy, unapologetically nasty, ineffably gorgeous, and inexpressibly fabulous. She’s what your parents pray you won’t become and what your boyfriend (or girlfriend) prays you will. Her “megasuperstarprincess” style is a candy-coated, TRL-inspired take on...
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“Recently we were playing a gig in New Jersey and the promoter said Now Is The Time made him feel inspirational, and that’s always our intention, so that was really cool,” says Regina Strayhorn, accordionist, melodica player, glockenspieler, and one-third of Bandits on the Run, a folksy, Brooklyn-based, indie...
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Today New York-based Americana outfit, The Booklights, release their debut EP, Into a Ball, a release that likely wouldn’t have happened, if it wasn’t for the pandemic. “It’s so wild to be releasing an EP right now. We recorded almost everything last summer and, for the most part, it...
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Earlier this week May Rio (of Poppies) released a music video for “Reservations,” a morosely quirky ballad about being smitten with a recovering junkie. The video, directed by Michael Jenson, was rendered on Mario Paint and edited on VCRs. The audiovisual combo is a poignant reminder of the early-mid...
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“3,000 times a day these commercials are basically calling you ugly. They have everyone feeling bad about themselves and I don’t think that’s fair… I want people to be able to love themselves,” says Rosie Rebel, frontwoman of Brooklyn punk rockers Typhoid Rosie. She’s discussing the band’s latest single,...
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NYC/Berlin quartet Fenster have apparently been through even more than I realized between the release of their 2012 debut, Bones, and their follow-up, The Pink Caves, which is out today on morrmusic. The hyper-mystical, hyper-moody, and hyper-postmodern indie pop outfit kick off a string of US dates tonight at...
Although best known as vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter for New York indie poppers The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Kip Berman has spent recent years embracing a different sort of lifestyle… parenting, husbanding, but also making a slightly different kind of sound as The Natvral. Earlier this year,...
Miss Madeline is every pop star you’ve ever wanted to be rolled into one. She’s decadently raunchy, unapologetically nasty, ineffably gorgeous, and inexpressibly fabulous. She’s what your parents pray you won’t become and what your boyfriend (or girlfriend) prays you will. Her “megasuperstarprincess” style is a candy-coated, TRL-inspired take on...
