With the Disappears‘ August 2013 album, Era, the band has produced a tighter and more decisive album that holds nothing back. Era sounds like an interesting mix of Kraut and industrial rock, also honing in on more experimental elements that excite and overstimulate the senses in the best ways. We spoke to founding member and vocalist, Brian Case about his past projects, how he perceives his own unique voice and this current experience touring Era. Continue reading →

Baltimore based trap, downtempo…almost (but not) new jack R&B duo, Chiffon has just released a stellar EP called Marble. If any of that descriptive terminology confused you, it’s ok because R&B done well is a complex thing. This heavily vibey, post apocalyptic EP takes experimental music to another level. Continue reading →

A somewhat unwise actress once said “Stop trying to make Fetch happen, it’s not going to happen.” Well I am here to disagree- perhaps the slang term will never catch on, but Crisis Arm‘s newest album “Fetch” is certainly happening. Continue reading →

The Veldt is a legendary shoegaze rock band from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. They were a staple and irreplaceable component of the shoegaze community as the band was discovered by Robin Guthrie of The Cocteau Twins. The Veldt experienced realized success by touring all over the world after signing a record deal with Polygram Records, following the release of their first album Marigold in 1992. The Veldt’s core members (and twin brothers) Danny and Daniel Chavis continue to play music together as the the NYC based 5 piece band, Apollo Heights, who continues to tour interchangeably as the Veldt to this day.

We’ve caught wind that The Veldt will be releasing their first album since 1998 entitled, Resurrection Hymns. We’re anticipating the release from this enigmatic and historically relevant band.
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I’m going to spare you a long introduction because I don’t want to create any innuendos that suggests I didn’t scribble half this list in my little red journal while riding the train yesterday afternoon, and the other half by racking my brain over the last year for albums that I remember playing over and over as my three week obsessions. With that said, I don’t have many three week album obsessions, so this list, to me– is special.

I did go back and listen to all of these albums through again to make sure this list is authentic for the bands and anyone who values my opinion. So, I love you all. Let’s get to it: Continue reading →

Junior Kimbrough is the poor loner’s answer to B.B. King, Muddy Waters and Buddy Guy. Kimbrough, born in 1930 in Hudsonville, Mississippi, was a very laid back romance-centric southern composer who had a knack for writing simple, underground make out blues ballads. There’s nothing showy about Kimbrough. His love songs like Meet Me In the City are made up of upbeat rockabilly-folk guitar riffs and enchantingly endearing lyrics.

If you want authenticity and to hear a simple man play music with his heart on his sleeve, Junior is an artist to explore. Continue reading →

Kris Kidd is a 20-year-old author who is celebrating the upcoming release of his new collection of essays entitled, I Can’t Feel My Face. We’ve been totally enamored with his essays and brief exclamations and iterations of his eerily pristine and wise words. Kris’ disturbingly perceptive take on his own life and today’s youth culture at large, makes him a prime candidate to become a fresh new voice for the latter end of Generation Y.

P/P decided to pick his brain about this literary journey, since he’s been afforded the opportunity of being published, which is a gift many writers will never obtain after a lifetime of attempts. Here is a brief Q&A that skims a few layers off of Kris Kidd’s process and lays them on the table for you to partake in:

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Far Fetched Future is a young, insidiously accomplished NYC based photographer whose crisp, sterilely poignant photographs are the complete opposite of the haunting and foggy photos most of us moody, generation y’ers usually go for. Future’s work reveals a clarity of the truth of every moment and frame he captures. There is nothing left to the imagination as you can see very line, glare in the eye and tattoo on all of his subjects. His work is diggable and intimidatingly professional. At barely 23 years old, Lucas Farrar’s career makes most media professional’s portfolios look like high school collage projects.

He’s one of of Hip Hop’s premiere photographers, as his work as been featured in The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Black Book Magazine and so on. But enough with the words. Let’s check the images: Continue reading →

After a short stint as the bassist of the disbanded Brooklyn based thrash punk band, Ritz Riot, Xe Davis is finding her own sonic style with her music project, Gun/Her. She now resides in Los Angeles and performs with her all male band as they create a sultry and sensually lazy beach sound that is intriguing, haunting and sensibly electro acoustic. We like to see musicians emerge from the depths of the boiling, sticky DIY underground, and Xe is definitely an artist to watch. Check out her single, Chained and follow her journey through her riot grrrl Universe of beach babe weirdness and realized/stylized punkabilly soul.