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Total Heat is the project of LA-based musician Ross Wallace Chait (of Girlpool). The debut record Totally Real is out now on Steady Hand Records.

Total Heat

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Ross Chait (Total Heat, Girlpool) and Sandy Honig Love LA

Joseph Shabason is a Toronto-based saxophonist. His new record, Welcome To Hell, is out now via Western Vinyl.

Joseph Shabason

Matty Matheson and Fresh Pepper on How a Kitchen Can Be Kind of Like a Hardcore Show

Lily Konigsberg has been writing songs all her life. Born and raised in Brooklyn, she started playing solo sets around NYC clubs as a teenage, before linking up with Bard classmates Nina Ryser and Ani Ivry-Block to form Palberta. She also performs with Nate Amos as My Idea, and is releasing her latest full-length solo album Lily We Need To Talk Now via Wharf Cat October 2021.

Lily Konigsberg

Nisa and Lily Konigsberg Think Life’s a Gas

Basia Bulat is a three-time Polaris Music Prize finalist and has been nominated for three JUNO Awards. She is known for her extensive touring and vibrant live shows that feature her powerful voice and multi-instrument skills – switching from piano, to autoharp, to charango, to guitar. She has performed at such festivals as Montreux Jazz Festival, Austin City Limits and Newport Folk Festival and has performed for audiences at venues like Carnegie Hall, Royal Theater Carré and headlined at Massey Hall. In addition to releasing her own album in 2020—the Jim James-produced Are You In Love?—Bulat co-produced and co-wrote songs with Meg Remy for the new U.S. Girls album, Heavy Light, and co-produced the soon to be released debut album from Kass Richards, The Language Shadow.

Basia Bulat

Jens Lekman and Basia Bulat Confront Their Old Selves on Their New Records

Belief is the LA-based experimental dance music duo of Stella Mozgawa (Warpaint) and Boom Bip. Their debut self-titled record is out now on Lex.
(Photo Credit: Ali Lee Hollon)

Belief

Stella Mozgawa (Warpaint) and Boom Bip’s New Record Was a Decade in the Making

Wombo is an indie rock band based in Kentucky. Their latest record Fairy Rust is out July 2022 on Fire Talk Records.

Wombo

S.G. Goodman and Wombo Need Their Creature Comforts on Tour

<a href="https://www.alicecohen.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alice Cohen</a> is a Brooklyn-based musician, producer, and visual artist. Her latest record Moonrising is out now on Styles Upon Styles.

Alice Cohen

Delia Gonzalez and Alice Cohen Want to Celebrate Life

MISZCZYK (pronounced Miz-Chik) is the project of Toronto-based producer Nyles Miszczyk. During his formative years as a beatmaker, MISZCZYK’s projects included the hip-hop group Bread &amp; Water; later, while working as an in-house engineer at Toronto’s Royal Mountain Records, MISZCZYK produced hyperactive indie rock band Hollerado, legendary proto-punks Simply Saucer, and garage rock hero Mark “BBQ” Sultan
His debut album, Thyrsis of Etna, brings together a constellation of musicians – young and old, spanning the globe, beloved by fans or yet unknown. He creates spellbinding backdrops for vocalists and instrumental contributors such as Stereolab’s Laetitia Sadier, Pylon’s Vanessa Briscoe Hay, The Space Lady, Marker Starling, Chad VanGaalen, Motorists’ Craig Fahner, and many more.
(Photo Credit: Kate Young)

MISZCZYK

Making Thyrsis of Etna Was Like a Party for MISZCZYK and Chandra Oppenheim

Dan Álvarez de Toledo and Jordan Dunn-Pilz have a special bond. Growing up in Newburyport, Massachusetts, the two were fast and unshakable friends through sleepovers, school choir practices, and discovering formative bands, to the point that now, as roommates in Brooklyn, they finish each other’s sentences. This shared history and obvious love for each other are tangible in their songwriting project TOLEDO, named after the Spanish town and Álvarez’s familial namesake. Their music, which is full of seamless harmonies throughout, skirts the softer edges of indie rock and the darker fringes of pop with each song imbuing a heaping dose of vulnerability and emotional openness.

TOLEDO

TOLEDO and Wild Pink Are Looking for That Honest Dirt

As a reserved kid growing up in Brooklyn, Carlos Hernandez would spend his subway rides bumping Al Green and Beethoven on his mp3 player, and weekends writing music on his mom’s piano. He once won a city-wide composers&#8217; scholarship for a classical piece he wrote as a teen. Raised by a funk &amp; soul DJ and a Santera-turned-midwife, Carlos was imbued with a lifelong respect for pop music and witchcraft, history, and sacred geometry.
Obsessed with sounds, adolescent Carlos started singing his private thoughts into a microphone, and called it Ava Luna. Over time this project transitioned into a critically acclaimed international touring group, a sandbox for collaborators Jennifer Vanilla and Felicia Douglass (Gemma, Dirty Projectors), and a cornerstone of Brooklyn’s DIY scene. In between tours, his mid-20s were spent at the beloved DIY sanctuary Silent Barn, where he made a living cutting hair and recording bands in an unrenovated auto shop. He has since cultivated a production career that includes credits from genre-expansive artists like Princess Nokia, Frankie Cosmos, Sneaks, Mr Twin Sister, Gustaf, Taphari, and Palehound.
With Ava Luna on hiatus, Carlos now returns to his songwriting roots as Carlos Truly. Largely produced by his brother Tony Seltzer, his debut Not Mine is out now on Bayonet Records.

Carlos Truly

Brothers Carlos Truly and Tony Seltzer Remember Their Musical Origin Stories

Chad Peck is the singer/guitar player in <a href="https://www.facebook.com/kestrels/?fref=ts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kestrels</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/weneedsecrets/?fref=ts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">We Need Secrets</a>. He also runs Noyes Records. He is based in Lornevale, Nova Scotia, Canada, where he teaches high school English.

Chad Peck

Chad Peck (Kestrels) Picks Kurt Heasley’s Brain

Katy J Pearson is a Bristol-based singer-songwriter. Her latest album, Someday, Now, is out September 20, 2024 via Heavenly Recordings.
(Photo Credit: H Hawkline)

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