Northside Festival

Recording songs for himself in a Catskills cabin before he did it in an expatriate’s flat in Beijing, Amen Dunes’ Damon McMahon naturally stumbled upon a hypnotically personal style of psych pop–all quivering guitars, low moans, and primal rhythms. His 2009 album, DIA (cabin-recorded... Read More →

Brooklyn’s Crystal Stilts were chief among of a new wave of lo-fi rockers that broke out of the borough in 2008 to wide notice and gigs all over the world. Combining the dour, sunglassed detachment of The Velvet Underground with the playfully energetic jangle of early 80s New Zealand... Read More →

From War to VÅR, there’s little change in pronunciation but a big change in definition. Meaning “spring” in their native Danish, VÅR is the new name of the band formed by Iceage singer Elias Rønnenfelt and Posh Isolation label head Lohke Rahbeck (a singer himself for the... Read More →

Though probably best known as a guitarist for the excellent, prolific San Francisco garage-rock band The Fresh and Onlys, Wymond Miles is a formidable songwriter in his own right. His solo EP Earth Has Doors was a promising tidbit, but the soon-to-be-released Under the Pale Moon... Read More →