Getty Image/Merle Cooper People on the internet may be complaining that Hollywood is only greenlighting reboots and remakes for new media in 2023, but thankfully, the same can’t be said for indie music. Sure, this year has brought the return of indie staples like The National’s lauded First Two Pages Of Frankenstein and Gorillaz’s hit-packed …
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Indie Mixtape 20: Bonny Doon’s ‘Let There Be Music’ Is Understated And Thoughtful
Photo by Andi Kerr Like many of us, Bonny Doon were moved by Waxahatchee‘s music. But unlike many of us, they were actually invited to collaborate on the singer’s hit 2020 album, Saint Cloud, and act as a backing band on her subsequent tour. “The experience raised the ceiling on our imagination,” says vocalist/guitarist Bobby …
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Indie Mixtape 20: Stuck’s Latest LP ‘Freak Frequency’ Is Unhinged And Political
Photo by Alexa Viscius “A whole new dark age!” Stuck vocalist Greg Obis shouts in “The Punisher,” the opening track on the Chicago-based band’s latest album Freak Frequency. It sets a tone for the project as a whole, which, according to Obis, is about “the inverse relationship between the slowly declining US empire and the …
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Azealia Banks Reckons Taylor Swift Could Do Much Better Than ‘Full Incel’ Matty Healy, And Even Offers Up An Indie Rock Suggestion
Getty Image Matty Healy is comfortably resting in his villain era, stirring up beef with Noel Gallagher. His rumored romance with Taylor Swift isn’t helping much. Lewis Capaldi poked fun at the discourse with a parody video, but Azealia Banks’ approach isn’t as light-hearted. In a note uploaded to the entertainer’s Instagram Story, Banks wrote, …
Indie Mixtape 20: Miya Folick Sings Her Feelings On ‘Roach’
Photo by Jonny Marlow It’s been five years since Miya Folick arrived on the indie rock scene with her acclaimed debut album Premonitions. But in the time since, Folick was dealt some pretty big blows. After going through a gnarly breakup and quitting drugs, Folick’s father sadly passed away suddenly. Faced with grief and the …
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Florence Pugh Explained Why The ‘Indie Film World’ Was ‘Pissed Off’ At Her When She Joined The MCU
A24 Before she joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Florence Pugh was an indie favorite. After she joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe, well, she’s still an indie favorite, but not everyone was thrilled that the star of Lady Macbeth and Midsommar was now making superhero movies. “So many people in the indie film world were really …
Indie Mixtape 20: Alex Lahey’s ‘The Answer Is Always Yes’ Is Perfectly Tongue-In-Cheek
Photo by Pooneh Ghana Life can be endlessly absurd. So it’s better to embrace the absurdity than to deny it. That’s exactly what indie rocker Alex Lahey is doing on her forthcoming album The Answer Is Always Yes, which drops Friday. Coming off the success of her previous releases, The Best Of Luck Club and …
Indie Mixtape 20: Mega Bog Brings The Magic With ‘End Of Everything’
Photo by Amanda Jasnowski Pascual There’s a moment on Mega Bog’s seventh studio album that perfectly encapsulates the catharsis End Of Everything has to offer. It arrives at the last few seconds of “All And Everything,” where a cinematic build of instrumentals is unleashed with a blood-curdling scream courtesy of bandleader Erin Birgy. Aptly titled, …
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Indie Mixtape 20: Charlotte Cornfield’s ‘Could Have Done Anything’ Hopes To Stand The Test Of Time
Photo by Brittany Carmichael “Nowhere to go, nothing to do, except lie here with you,” Toronto songwriter Charlotte Cornfield gently sings on “Nowhere.” The song exemplifies how Cornfields upcoming album, Could Have Done Anything, leans endearing compared to her breakthrough, gut-punch of an LP Highs In The Minuses. While her previous LP featured songs about …
Indie Mixtape 20: Fruit Bats’ Latest Album Is ‘Emotional Make Out Music’
Photo by Chantal Anderson It’s no secret that Fruit Bats’ Eric D. Johnson is an insanely prolific songwriter. On top of being a core member of the Grammy-nominated group Bonny Light Horseman, Johnson has released six full-length projects as Fruit Bats since 2019. His latest, the folksy A River Running To Your Heart, shows that …
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All The Best New Indie Music From This Week
Alexandra Waespi Indie music has grown to include so much. It’s not just music that is released on independent labels but speaks to an aesthetic that deviates from the norm and follows its own weirdo heart. It can come in the form of rock music, pop, or folk. In a sense, it says as much …
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Indie Mixtape 20: Rahill’s Whimsical Debut Solo LP Takes Inspiration From Iranian Poetry
Photo by Justus Kempthorne Perhaps best exemplified by the album cover, Rahill’s debut solo LP Flowers At Your Feet is a love letter to her upbringing. It features a Polaroid of herself as a child; Her head wrapped in a towel and a gold charm around her neck, she looks longingly off into the distance. …