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Fronted by Jasamine White-Gluz, No Joy is a shoegaze band from Montreal. Their new EP Can My Daughter See Me From Heaven is out now on Joyful Noise.

No Joy

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Jasamine White-Gluz (No Joy) and Ouri Talk Montreal, a Duck Blood-Stained Eckhaus Latta Dress, and More

Devon Welsh&nbsp;writes songs and lyrics in&nbsp;Majical Cloudz. His opinions are neither to be taken seriously nor to be trusted.

Devon Welsh

Nick Schofield and Devon Welsh Aren’t Trying to Clearly Define Reality

M.C. Taylor is the frontman and songwriter of Hiss Golden Messenger, whose most recent album, Heart Like a Levee, is out now. Hiss Golden Messenger’s Facebook page is <a href="https://www.facebook.com/HissGoldenMessenger" target="_blank">here</a> and its website is <a href="http://www.hissgoldenmessenger.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">here</a>.
(Photo credit: Dan Huiting)

M.C. Taylor

Johanna Samuels and Hiss Golden Messenger Talk the “Possibility of Hope”

Claire Rousay is based in San Antonio, Texas. Her music zeroes in on personal emotions and the minutiae of everyday life — voicemails, haptics, environmental recordings, stopwatches, whispers and conversations — exploding their significance.
(Photo Credit: Dani Toral)

Claire Rousay

Claire Rousay and Haley Dahl Got Comfort Spoiled in Quarantine

New York City&#8217;s Macula Dog is a duo known for their singular style of clattering electronic synth music. The band is also known for their live performances, which are highly visual, with the duo donning elaborate costumes and operating custom control rigs. Their current live set features a luminol-glam experience with live video of each member’s face recorded by head-mounted cameras and projected onto screens around the performance area. Their live set has been covered in The New Yorker and their last LP earned a Tiny Mix Tapes Eureka designation.
The band’s first self-titled EP was released on their own Haord Records label in 2014, followed by their debut LP for Wharf Cat, 2016’s Why Do You Look Like Your Dog? The Natural Dog cassette followed by a U.S. release tour and performances on Adult Swim. The Breezy EP was be released on 4/17 but the band had to cancel the Eps release tour because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Macula Dog is currently working on their next LP, after which a support tour will be planned when it is safe to do so.
(Photo Credit: Ates Isildak)

Macula Dog

The Rig Rundown with Dan Deacon and Macula Dog

Nicholas Galanin is one of the most vital voices in contemporary art. Born in Sheet’ka (Sitka, Alaska), Galanin is Tlingit and Unangax̂; he creates from his perspective as an Indigenous man. His work calls for an accounting of the damages done to land and life by unfettered capitalism while envisioning and advocating alternate possibilities. 
His debut as Ya Tseen (“be alive,” and a reference to his Tlingit name Yeil Ya Tseen) is Indian Yard, his first album for Sub Pop. Rich with emotional range and sharp awareness, Indian Yard explores love, desire, frustration, pain, revolution, and connection through the magnetic expressions of an Indigenous mind. 
This is not, by any means, Galanin’s first album. He has released a steady stream of records under a panoply of aliases, including Silver Jackson and Indian Agent. He has worked with the likes of Meshell Ndegeocello, Tanya Tagaq, and Samantha Crain. And for the better part of a decade, he’s also been part of the revolutionarily borderless art collective Black Constellation alongside Shabazz Palaces and THEESatisfaction.
(Photo Credit: Merritt Johnson)

Ya Tseen

Ya Tseen Is In Charge of the Narrative

The five members of Sun June spent their early years spread out across the United States, from the boonies of the Hudson Valley to the sprawling outskirts of LA. Having spent their college years within the gloomy, cold winters of the Northeast, Laura Colwell and Stephen Salisbury found themselves in the vibrant melting-pot of inspiration that is Austin, Texas. Meeting each other while working on Terrence Malick’s Song to Song, the pair were immediately taken by the city’s bustling small clubs and honky-tonk scene, and the fact that there was always an instrument within reach, always someone to play alongside.
Coming alive in this newly discovered landscape, Colwell and Salisbury formed Sun June alongside Michael Bain on lead guitar, Sarah Schultz on drums, and Justin Harris on bass. Their latest album, Somewhere, is out now.
(Photo Credit: Santiago Dietche)

Sun June

Sun June and Bowerbirds Get to Know Each Other

With origins firmly rooted in the revered southern music town of Athens, GA, New Madrid first arrived on the scene with their 2012 debut, Yardboat, and will soon release their fourth full-length on April 30, 2021 via Lemonade Records. The 10-song set is self-titled to mark a renewed focus and finds the four-piece (comprising Phil McGill, Ben Hackett, Alex Woolley, and Graham Powers) revisiting the southern indie rock sounds of their very first recordings while exploring new elements of dreamy psychedelia, jangly pop, and energetic post-punk. Writing and recording the forthcoming album started in the immediate aftermath of 2016’s magnetkingmagnetqueen (New West Records), and didn&#8217;t conclude until early 2019 when the band brought in Drew Vandenberg (Futurebirds, Bambara, Faye Webster) to produce and engineer the project. The time spent has delivered a collection that Hackett describes as &#8220;all the things we liked about our previous albums with new stuff put on top of it,&#8221; adding, &#8220;It feels like a cool re-set. This is the closest to what the band has always sounded like in our heads.&#8221;

New Madrid

A Brief History of Athens, Georgia

Blood Lemon is a post-riot-grrrl rock band from Boise, Idaho. Their debut self-titled album is out April 2021.
(Photo Credit: Matthew Wordell)

Blood Lemon

Doug Martsch and Blood Lemon Appreciate It For What It Is

Jackie McLean, frontwoman of Roan Yellowthorn, the musical project supported by partner and multi-instrumentalist Shawn Strack, delivers confessional indie rock with a singer/songwriter heart. The duo’s forthcoming new album, Another Life, is due out May 14 via Blue Élan Records. McLean wrote much of the set as a reflection on a childhood marked by frequent mental and emotional abuse that continued into young adulthood, oftentimes causing her to question her own reality and sense of self-worth, and the idea of alternate or parallel lives serves as a throughline. She channels her healing process and the rebuilding of her individual identity through laid-back &#8217;80s era synths and airy, often bright, dream-pop sounds helmed with the help of producer John Agnello (Dinosaur Jr, Kurt Vile, Waxahatchee).

Jackie McLean

Jackie McLean and Alex Cameron Are Just Trying to Tell the Truth

Ellen Kempner is the vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter for the Boston and New York-based indie rock trio Palehound. Their latest record, Eye on the Bat, is out now Polyvinyl.

El Kempner

Ritt Momney, Palehound, and Claud Roundtable on Their New Collaboration

LAPÊCHE is a Brooklyn-based band led by singer/guitarist Krista Holly Diem, whose dark, melodic songs offer a refreshing twist on post-punk inspired indie rock. With bassist Dave Diem (Twelve Hour Turn), guitarist Drew DeMaio (Asshole Parade, Floor, Strikeforce Diablo) and drummer Jeff Gensterblum (Small Brown Bike, Able Baker Fox), the close friends compose together, drawing inspiration from both past and present, light and dark, guiding Krista Holly&rsquo;s provocative melodies and lyrics.
(Photo Credit: Kate Hoos)

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