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Moaning is a rock band from LA. Their second album, Uneasy Laughter, was released March 2020 via Sup Pop.
(Photo Credit: Michael Schmelling)

Moaning

Music

The Way We Get By: Moaning Is Just Trying to Stay Thankful

Melkbelly is a Chicago-based foursome with Miranda and Bart Winters on guitars, Liam Winters on bass, and James Wetzel on drums. Their latest singles, &#8220;KMS EXPRESS&#8221; and &#8220;PRECIOUS CARGO,&#8221; are out now via Exploding in Sound.
(Photo Credit: Ariella Miller)

Melkbelly

The Top 5 Places Melkbelly Wouldn’t Want to Be Quarantined At Right Now

Jehnny Beth is a solo artist and the frontwoman of the band Savages. Her latest album, TO LOVE IS TO LIVE, is out May 8.
(Photo Credit: Johnny Hostile)

Jehnny Beth

The Way We Get By: Jehnny Beth Has Been Reading a Million Books At the Same Time

When he co-founded the instrumental band Balmorhea over 10 years ago, Rob Lowe (RG Lowe) had no idea that its introspective instrumental music would be heard by millions of people, or that it would offer the opportunity to travel and perform around the world. After years of success in the world of neo-classical music, Lowe took a sharp turn when a casual conversation with a friend in Marfa, TX planted the idea in his head that he should challenge himself to write a pop album. Having spent years in church choirs and musical theater as a kid in West Texas, he knew he could sing, but would have to teach himself how to write the type of pop songs he was interested in creating. This eventually manifested in his 2017 debut, Slow Time, which Stereogum called &ldquo;impossibly smooth.&rdquo; Three years later, Lowe is returning with his sophomore album, Life of the Body, out May 22 via Western Vinyl.&nbsp;
(Photo Credit: Claire Cottrell)

RG Lowe

RG Lowe and Jess Williamson Talk Releasing Albums in the Midst of a Pandemic

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Abbi Jacobson is a comedian, writer and actress living in New York, who is best known for co-creating and co-starring in the Comedy Central show Broad City. She has acted in the films Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising, Person to Person and 6 Balloons, and is currently developing for FX the TV series Guts and Glory, based on Samantha Irby&#8217;s book of comic essays Meaty.

Abbi Jacobson

Podcast

Revisited: Jeff Tweedy (Wilco) Talks with Abbi Jacobson for the Talkhouse Podcast

Uma Bloo is a character Molly Madden invented in response to world-weariness. Originally a solo project based in burlesque performance, Madden has since expanded into a full-fledged band that connects with audiences through sheer force of will.
The band&rsquo;s strengths lie in stage performance and Madden&rsquo;s unguarded lyrics that lay her out in the open. The sultry existentialist Uma Bloo is often compared to Angel Olsen and Warhol superstar Nico, who shares a penchant for defying traditional boundaries of genre while enticing listeners to reckon with the past.
As Madden&rsquo;s first and only music project to date, her upcoming 2020 debut album includes songs she originally wrote when she was as young as 19. When she began recording, she enlisted Mike Altergott who soon after joined the band. Altergott is also a talented musician and engineer in his own right, who has worked with the likes of Fran and Fauvely, to name a few.
Madden brings her background in theater and performance to create an entirely immersive musical experience as Uma Bloo.
(Photo Credit: Monika Oliver)

Uma Bloo

Introducing: Uma Bloo’s “Coming Home”

Steve Sladkowski is the guitarist from the Toronto punk band PUP. When he isn&#8217;t on the road or rehearsing, you can usually find him crate-digging in record stores, yelling at basketball games on TV, reading about current events, or trying out new slow-cooker recipes. He once considered becoming an ethnomusicologist, but decided to play in bands instead because he knew he&#8217;d be broke either way.

Steve Sladkowski

The Way We Get By: PUP’s Steve Sladkowski Is Trying to be Patient With Himself

Robbie Fulks is a musician — country, but also strongly attracted to jazz, bluegrass, gospel, experimental musics — living in Los Angeles. His latest record is Bluegrass Vacation. His 2017 release, Upland Stories, was a multiple Grammy nominee. His website is <a href="http://robbiefulks.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.

Robbie Fulks

Here’s How Adam Schlesinger Did That Thing He Did

Since 1998, the Pickathon has brought together an intimate audience and some incredible performers to a farm outside of Portland, Oregon. 2020&#8217;s festival will take place July 30 through August 2.

Pickathon

Pickathon Presents: The Mellows

Grounded in a tightly knit friendship and an intuitive musical bond, Lightning Bug’s music, an enveloping mix of rapturous shoegaze, longing balladry, and ambient soundscapes, sits at the center point of a creative exchange among songwriter Audrey Kang, multi-instrumentalist Kevin Copeland, and producer Logan Miley. Despite a knack for sonic eclecticism, each Lightning Bug record holds a magnetic sense of cohesion. Lyrically, the songs document Audrey navigating a relationship with her own humanity, memories fraught with joy and pain, and the constant cycle of tension and release necessary in developing self-trust. Lightning Bug’s music is then the manifestation of dialogues: a musical dialogue amongst members of a sacred creative partnership and an internal one as Audrey plumbs the depths of her own foundation.
Last year’s October Song (released via Marbled Arm) marked Lightning Bug’s second full-length offering, the follow up to the largely anonymous release of their self-titled debut Floaters. Earning an 8.0 from Pitchfork and a spot on NME’s best debut albums of 2015 respectively, Lightning Bug have emerged as one of the musical underground’s most fertile sources for textured world-building and soaring catharsis. Lightning Bug have now announced Fat Possum as their new label home and are now recording the follow up to October Song with new members Vincent Puleo and Dane Hagen.
(Photo Credit: Luke Clerkin)

Lightning Bug

The Way We Get By: Lightning Bug’s Audrey Kang Found Pina Universally Moving

<div>As Ramona Lisa, Caroline Polachek released the album Arcadia in April.  She is also the singer-keyboardist of Chairlift.  You can follow her on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/carolineplz" target="_blank">here</a> and the Ramona Lisa website is <a href="http://www.theramonalisa.com" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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Caroline Polachek

The Way We Get By: Caroline Rose Wants to Be a Source of Comfort For You

<a href="http://www.leeranaldo.com/">Lee Ranaldo</a> co-founded Sonic Youth in 1981. His latest album, with Raül Refree, <a href="http://namesofnorthendwomen.com">Names of North End Women</a>, came out February 21 via Mute Records.