“He’s like an ambient R. Kelly,” describes one girl to her friend. Both are waiting outside of Portland’s Holocene for How To Dress Well, the project of solo musician Tom Krell, to take the stage. As simultaneously flattering...
Remember in grade school when there would be those school-wide hearing and vision test days? Gauntlet Hair is sort of like that, except the exact opposite. Instead of trying to identify soft beeps, you’re assaulted with some of the nosiest...
Long Island-based quintet Twin Sister put out two wonderfully dreamy indie pop EPs between 2008 and 2010, and then quietly retreated to the studio, leaving us hanging until this September. Their debut full-length, In Heaven, expands upon their...
This REDEFINE staff-curated mixtape crosses continents and countries -- from Cambodia to England, from India to Ethiopia -- to bring you psychedelic sounds for the comedown.
Prior to its release, Washed Out’s debut album, Within And Without, had been so widely hyped and over-anticipated in the internet world that it was almost nauseating. Yes, the few songs that were released a few months prior to the actual album...
It’s that time for hot summer days with dips in the pool, ice cream treats and driving along the beach with your windows down. Go!
With an unrelenting feel-good sound, canny lyrics and a frontman with a history of being a traveling troubadour, Sonny And The Sunsets could without a doubt be transported a few decades back and fit in as comic book and cartoon show with the likes...
Ambient bedroom pop pioneer Matt Mondanile, aka Ducktails, manages to break into untapped psych-pop territory on his new album, while appeasing those who long for his forgotten demo cassettes. And while Ducktails III: Arcade Dynamics takes an...