Mind Equals Blown

Craft Spells follows the kind of story that is highly common in this internet era. A young man, in this case Justin Vallesteros, decides to make some music from his bedroom and spread it around the world under the name Craft Spells. Eventually he’s picked up by the rapidly growing dreampop/shoegaze label Captured Tracks. He

There’s something quite unsurprising about Phèdre being composed of a rotating cast of musicians and the fact that much of their identity is shrouded in mystery. The music showcased on their self-titled debut full-length is a combination of different sounds covered in a veil of lo-fi. It’s as if the band set out to make a

Florida’s own Oceana have been in the process of writing their follow-up to 2010′s excellent Clean Head EP for the past two years. Now that the record is fully written, the band needs your help funding the recording. To help fund their cause, the band has set up a Kickstarter page with a goal of $10,000.

Lockett Pundt has spent a lot of time being “that one shy kid” in Deerhunter. It’s hard to forget however that he is a tremendously important part in the band’s canon. As a primary songwriter for the Athens, Georgia group, he was responsible for tracks like “Agoraphobia” and “Desire Lines.” His vocals on the these

The story of capsule is worth noting whenever talking about their music outside of their homeland. In their native Japan they have quite the following, and their albums tend to chart pretty high up on the Oricon charts (Japan’s equivalent to the Billboard charts). They’re also one of those J-pop acts that most people familiar

As a music fan it’s always nice getting to see a band really come into their own and release something great. For some time the Bay Area shoegaze band Whirr (formerly known as Whirl) was one of those bands that never really had that much of a personality. Yeah, the songs on their Distressor EP weren’t bad,

Before releasing her latest record Interstellar, Frankie Rose spent quite some time playing with Crystal Stilts, Vivian Girls, and Dum Dum Girls. These bands and Rose all have one thing in common, an affinity with music from a period long-gone. The tracks in Interstellar are a throwback to the days of ’80s pop. However they

Noise is a term that tends to get a lot of hate from those in the music world who have yet to give it a chance. They assume that it’s, well, just noise. While artists such as Merzbow do specialize in that kind of sound, not all noise artists follow that path. A Place to