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Signing Stories: Pretty Rude
Date Signed: September 2024 Label: SideOneDummy Records Type of Music: Indie Rock Publicity: Caroline Borolla, Clarion Call Media A&R: Phil Bender-Simon Web: prettyrude.bandcamp.com When two business entities enter into contract ... -
Album Review of "Songs in the Key of Yikes" by Superchunk (8/10)
Merge Records Engineers: Paul Voran, Eli Webb Jon Wurster—one of indie-rock’s most adored—left the Superchunk fold in early 2023, because his "heart just [wasn't] in it anymore." Superchunk then made ... -
Sooper Records
Founded in 2016 by artists NNAMDÏ, Sen Morimoto, and Glenn Curran—who met as fellow forward-thinking members of Chicago’s perennially underrated music community—Sooper Records is an ambitious labor of profound love. ... -
Album Review of "Moisturizer" by Wet Leg (9/10)
Domino Recording Co. Ltd. Producer: Dan Carey Moisturizer is only the second LP by the British indie-rockers, and boy, does it not show. “Catch These Fists” is a song Interpol ... -
Album Review of "Burn Cruise" by Leafblower (7/10)
Max Trax Records Producer: Leafblower In May 2023, Omaha, NE sludge servants Leafblower introduced themselves with an EP that didn’t so much entice as repel curious listeners of the doom ... -
Album Review of "Adventure Club" by Laura Jane Grace & In The Trauma Tropes (8/10)
Polyvinyl Records Producers: Laura Jane Grace, Jacopho Fokas & the Onassis Foundation Against Me! musical maven Laura Jane Grace came out as transgender 13 years ago and hasn’t flinched at ... -
Signing Stories: Noumenia
Date Signed: March 2025 Label: Eclipse Records Type of Music: Post-Groove Metal Management: Chris Poland, Eclipse Records Booking: Chris Poland Publicity: Chris Poland, press@eclipserecords.com A&R: Chris Poland Web: facebook.com/noumeniaband Go ... -
Share It Music Revels in Community Building, Not Profits
The new permutation of DIY that’s surging among those who believe in the punk rock philosophy is creating a primordial soup from which young music fans are fishing out some ... -
Tip Jar: Todd Trainer — Inside the Mind of a Drummer
Who among us hasn’t spent at least a few minutes during a concert wondering what goes on in the mind of the drummer, the wooden stick-wielder who holds the show ... -
Signing Stories: Shadows Fall
Date Signed:July 2024 Label: MNRK Heavy Type of Music:Hard Rock, Metal Management:SL Management Booking:Mike Monterulo TKO Publicity:Atom Splitter PR A&R: Scott Givens Web: shadowsfallmusic.com Shadows Fall have, as they say, ...
