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Dream Nails are a punk force to be reckoned with. The hotly-tipped band was founded by feminist activists in 2015, mixing unapologetically political content with pop punk joy. The female fourpiece have built a reputation across the UK, Europe and Scandinavia for their riotously feel good live shows.

Dream Nails

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Punk Rock’s Gonna Be Fine

Hannah Georgas began creating the album All That Emotion about a year after the release of her celebrated 2016 album For Evelyn — starting with an intensive process of writing and demoing songs in her Toronto apartment, and finishing with a month long retreat in Los Angeles. She began the record making process in the middle of 2018 when she traveled to Long Pond, the upstate New York studio &amp; home of producer Aaron Dessner of The National.
The writing of the album found Hannah creating her most personal album to date. “All That Emotion’s album cover is an old family photo,” says Hannah. “I love the image because it captures this calm confidence. It looks like people are watching a performance and it seems like he’s diving in without a second thought. Similarly, I find that it parallels the approach needed within art. The calm confidence of expressing yourself without the thought of consequence, regardless of anyone watching.&#8221;
On the album, you’ll hear about bad habits and prayerful families — right and wrong love — mistakes and moving on — casual cruelty and most of all, change. Plotting the boundaries of where to place this music it’s emotionally fraught but warm &amp; fuzzy. “An indie-minded avant-pop artist” was the Boston Globe’s formulation for her charms. Think of Fleetwood Mac meets The National; Kate Bush-sized passion with the earthiness of Cat Power or Aimee Mann. The album grows inside you and sticks to your insides. The songs are big tent anthems, rough at the edges but relatable.
(Photo Credit: Vanessa Heins)

Hannah Georgas

Catching Up with Hannah Georgas and This Is the Kit

Loren DiBlasi is a writer and musician from New York. She is the bassist of post-punk band <a href="https://patio-bandcamp.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://patio-bandcamp.bandcamp.com/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1558011684779000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFJ9loT6K1Ygxmofcf9l1xKipQRiQ">Patio</a>. Her writing has appeared in MTV News, Vulture, and NPR Music.

Loren DiBlasi

Knot Hasn’t Figured Out What Knot Is Yet

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Diplo (Major Lazer) Talks with Charley Crockett on the Talkhouse Podcast

The early days of writing All the Time, Jessy Lanza&#8216;s first album since 2016&#8217;s Oh No, marked a sea change for Jessy and her creative partner Jeremy Greenspan. After Oh No, Jessy left her hometown of Hamilton to go and live in New York. Written long distance for the first time, across Jessy’s new set up in New York to Jeremy’s home studio in Hamilton, and finishing in the recording studio Jeremy had been working on during this period.
Even though the move to New York and the change in remote working was tough, All the Time has turned out to be the most pure set of pop songs the duo has recorded; reflective and finessed over the time and distance they allowed it. Innovative juxtapositions sound natural, such as rigid 808’s rubbing against delicate chords in &#8220;Anyone Around,&#8221; unusual underwater rushes underpin &#8220;Baby Love.&#8221; Jessy’s voice is treated, re-pitched and edited on songs like Ice creamy and gestural sounds seem to respond to her lyrics in songs such as &#8220;Like Fire.&#8221;
As the final elements of the album were being put in place, everything changed overnight. Her European tour was cut short and she flew back to New York quickly, plans for the foreseeable future dissolved. Whatsmore her lease was up on her apartment and she couldn’t find another in New York due to quarantine restrictions, so she packed what she could into her van and drove to San Francisco to be near her family, stopping on the way in increasingly empty motels as she journeyed from coast to coast.

Jessy Lanza

Jessy Lanza and Kara-Lis Coverdale Talk Mariah, Monica, and Music Theory

Alicia Gaines is a songwriter, multiinstrumentalist, singer, and Graphis-awarded art director from Washington State. As part of Ganser, she has released two albums and multiple EPs serving as co-songwriter, co-producer, video co-director, and editor. After their critically acclaimed debut album, Odd Talk, Ganser&#8217;s Just Look at That Sky met 2020 with year end nods from The Quietus, Rolling Stone, Vice, Paste, Uproxx, Bandcamp, and more. “Favorite albums of 2020. They can rant and croon, elevating this thorny, driving music out of the muck and toward something resembling transcendence.” &#8211; <a href="https://uproxx.com/indie/steven-hyden-favorite-albums-of-2020/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://uproxx.com/indie/steven-hyden-favorite-albums-of-2020/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1645708607087000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1Yl7tKrkBcvt_zBdVnUGfg">Steven Hyden’s Favorite Albums Of 2020</a>
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Alicia Gaines

Alicia Gaines and Al Greenwood Bond Over Mutual Isolation

In the years between the release of Alice Ivy&#8216;s Australian Music Prize-nominated 2018 debut I&#8217;m Dreaming, the curator has grown into one of Australian electronica&#8217;s most prominent advocates for female producers. Now with the release of Don&#8217;t Sleep, Alice Ivy&#8217;s position alongside respected contemporaries is solidified, and her status as a revered collaborator confirmed.
Platforming new artists and helping new voices to break-through to the mainstream goes beyond just tastemaking for Alice Ivy, whose refined curatorial skills are on full display across Don&#8217;t Sleep. Through her choice of collaborators, Ivy is working to diversify the sound and look of the traditionally male-dominated studio space. This cause moves forward again through her second LP where Ivy is equally adept at uncovering new dimensions to well-established artists such as Cadence Weapon on &ldquo;Sunrise,&rdquo; Montaigne and Bertie Blackman on &ldquo;Sweetest Love&rdquo; and Ngaiire on &ldquo;All For You;&rdquo; as she is seeking out and breaking new ones including Thelma Plum on &ldquo;Ticket To Heaven,&rdquo; Odette on &ldquo;I&#8217;ll Find It&rdquo; and more across 13 tracks.
Written predominantly on the road where pool houses and kitchen tables were made into impromptu studios, in making Don&#8217;t Sleep Ivy strove to write music that could soundtrack both feelings of pure elation and move listeners emotionally. Challenging herself to experiment with new songwriting methods, explore the rawness of sound and collaborate with a broader range of voices, the result is a colourful journey made all the more vibrant and tender with tales woven from some of Australia&#8217;s most established and exciting upcoming voices.
(Photo Credit: Michelle G Hunder)

Alice Ivy

You Don’t Have To Make Your Pandemic Album

Pure Bathing Culture is Sarah Versprille and Dan Hindman, an indie pop duo from Portland, OR. Their EP Carrido is out now via Infinite Companion.

Pure Bathing Culture

Too Easy: Pure Bathing Culture Talks with Jonathan Rado (Foxygen) About Richard Swift

Art Feynman (aka accomplished recording artist and producer Luke Temple) stitches art-pop, Nigerian highlife, worldbeat, and other lesser-known genres into a musical quilt that displays his unmistakable guile and eccentric songcraft. On his sophomore album Half Price at 3:30 (out now on <a href="https://smarturl.it/ls8g04" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://smarturl.it/ls8g04&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1594406618320000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFBBoLnjNsvhRwgMZDfYkAMTAa3mA">Western Vinyl</a>) he delivers songs that side-smile while pointing out the emotional sinkholes that whirl beneath the most overlooked, seemingly commonplace scenarios. As effortlessly as he inhabits his Art Feynman character he also slips into the lives of other personalities, both living and fictional. Where previous entries in the Luke Temple discography — including his well-liked former group Here We Go Magic — have utilized organic timbres even while sailing far from the guitar-and-drums shore, Half Price sees him employing drum machines, slightly glossier production, and even autotune with a tasteful balance that suggests these tools have been in his kit all along. The result affectionately evokes guerrilla recording predecessors like Francis Bebey, Arthur Russell, and Haruomi Hosono in musicological detail, yet it’s Temple’s hard-won creative voice that resounds over top of it all facing Half Price forward instead of nostalgically backward.
(Photo Credit: Aubrey Trinnaman)

Luke Temple

A Deep Dive Into Music Theory and Lyric Writing with Luke Temple and Buck Meek

Holding fast to the emotional honesty of Playing House (2017), Common Holly’s sophomore record, When I say to you Black Lightning is a look outward; an exploration of the ways in which we all experience pain, fear, and self-delusion, and how we can learn to confront those feelings with boldness.
The record is more experimental than Brigitte Naggar’s debut. It is rougher, looser, louder and more atonal. It feels edgy, but still kind. WISTYBL ditches fear without losing vulnerability, and trades in sadness for the healing powers of anger, and the strength of observing, recognizing and confronting. Through its 9 labyrinthian yet catchy tracks, shaped sonically by the seriously unique visions of Devon Bate, Hamish Mitchell, and Naggar herself, the album observes the complexities of mental health, the precarity of life, and the challenges of finding strength in the face of grave misunderstanding. 
(Photo Credit: Alex Apostolidis)

Common Holly

Checking In with Little Kid and Common Holly

Black Belt Eagle Scout Talks with SASAMI (and Guest Host Vagabon) on the Talkhouse Podcast

Patrick Haggerty is the leader of the band Lavender Country.
(Photo Credit: Isabel Dresler)

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