
Listen: Julien Baker ‘Litle Oblivions’
Julien Baker has found the rare perfect balance between sticking to your guns and undergoing a total reinvention on Little Oblivions, her new self-produced full-length

Julien Baker has found the rare perfect balance between sticking to your guns and undergoing a total reinvention on Little Oblivions, her new self-produced full-length

Alan Vega built a career on the fringes, a cultural blade runner perpetually on the bleeding edge of conceptual art who kicked down barriers of

Black Country, New Road’s debut record, For the first time, leaves you wanting more, not because it’s lacking in splendor, but because its track-listing is

Pink Mexico’s Robert Preston Collum and long-time collaborator Mike Forst fused their talents in their latest project GUNK. They released the song “We’re on a

Art by Enne Goldstein, you can find more of their work here I don’t think you could walk into a gig from New York to L.A., or

Mush’s second album, Lines Redacted (out this past Friday, Feb 12 via Memphis Industries), came in quick succession to their debut 3D Routine, and it’s just the heady-hectic

Arlo Parks’ debut album “Collapsed in Sunbeams” is an intimate vibe that never stops, from beginning to end. The album starts with spoken words and

Before YouTube, before Twitch streams and Facebook live, bands would take their shows to the visual airwaves on public access television. These late-night, left-of-the-dial programs

The first of a three-part, 23-song saga from Charleston’s Little Bird, Alpha, is a little bit jam band, a little bit jazz, a little bit indie

There is a sinister, high fashion aura that permeates the landscape of Desire‘s music video for “Zeros”. As I was watching it, I felt like

There’s a tinge of nostalgia in Kahiem Rivera’s latest output. It’s hard to imagine that, this time last year, integration and community were an essential

“Where’s My Brain???” is 6-and-a-half minutes of largely instrumental motorik-powered psych that ebbs and flows with an organic pulse punctuated with chiming guitar notes and

Creams’ pulsating dark pop is completely hypnotic. From the first electronic whispers on her latest track, “Sleep On Me”, the listener knows they’re in for

My last moments pre-quarantine were spent on tour with Native Sun in California. After an amazing week out west, we headed back to the city

It seems we as a society have grown accustomed to sticking labels on things. Everyone who’s visited the UK in the last five or so

Looking like they’re in a computerized, post-apocalyptic landscape, Squid brings us their first single, “Narrator”, off their forthcoming debut record ‘Bright Green Field’. Inspired by

At the top of 2020, Chicago psychedelic rock group Post Animal unveiled their long-awaited sophomore record, Forward Motion Godyssey, only to have their official roll-out

We’re about a week or so into Aqua season, and to all the aquarian aliens out there, I just wanna say I love y’all. You’re

Following the release of their highly-acclaimed debut Songs of Praise (2018), and it being awarded the title of Rough Trade’s Album of the Year, South

Photos by Kelsey Hart The siren song of the open road has long beckoned generations of wild spirits to tear across the vast expanses of

I’m always a fan of some sort of creative restriction or framework — self-inflicted or otherwise — and how it inspires an artists work. The

Photo by Manon Macasaet Sabrina Fuentes, the front woman for Pretty Sick, has always known she would be doing exactly this. It is rare to

When Paul Jacobs isn’t contributing to Montreal-based post-punk band Pottery, he’s busy crafting his own methodological schemes in the studio. Most recently, yesterday finds the

Viagra Boys’ new album Welfare Jazz fuses elements of jazz, post-punk and folk in perfect harmony. The Stockholm, Sweden-based band is composed of jazz-gone-post-punk musicians

Shamir never planned for “Diet” to be a single, nor for there to be an accompanying music video to the popular track. However when the

Featured image by Luca Veneter, additional photos by Allen Ying Aerial East, an NYC-residing artist, is a very serious person. That might seem strange to

Capricorn is, as far as my experience goes, the most forgotten zodiac. Their level-headedness and steadfastness as the earthiest earth sign of them all can

Designed by Lucas Long. Photo by Alexa Viscius, courtesy of Dehd Listening through Dehd’s Flower of Devotion for the first time makes you as indecisive as

Art by Enne Goldstein, you can find more of their work here. 2020 was not our best! But the music was pretty great at least. Here’s some

Art by Enne Goldstein, you can find more of their work here. Not necessarily 2020 releases, but the music that got us through this year.

Written by Izel Villarba, find more of his work here. 2020 has forced everything and everyone to adapt to it. A pandemic, in parallel with

Photos by Lucy Blumenfield. Find more of her work here. Welcome to the Automatic ChatRoom! Remember to be respectful, and keep this space safe and fun as