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Marnie Stern is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and guitarist. She has garnered acclaim for her technical skill and tapping style of guitar playing. She currently resides in New York City with her dog Fig. You can follow her on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/MarnieStern">here</a>.

Marnie Stern

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Marnie Stern and Syd Butler (Les Savy Fav) Catch Up

Channeling 50 years of hard rock heritage, Ben Katzman’s DeGreaser deliver heavy shredding and posi vibes. Currently based out of Miami, they’re dedicated to spreading the shred worldwide.
Formed in 2014 amidst the dirt and frenzy of Boston’s electric DIY community, DeGreaser is the unruly lovechild of one Ben Katzman (previously of Guerilla Toss), a self-trained shredder with deep roots in Miami’s metal scene yielding an undying love for KISS, Van Halen and the Ramones. Playful yet earnest, DeGreaser celebrates the rock and roll ethos, but with a dedication to the core belief that you can only be cool by being yourself. Mix in an obsession with astrology, cults, soaring guitar solos, and all things John Travolta, and you have yourself a potent cocktail of rippin’ good times.
The band has toured and played shows across the U.S. with La Luz, Mannequin Pussy, Colleen Green, Tall Juan and countless other fellow shredders. Their new album, Astrology 101, is out now on Starburns Industries Press.
(Photo Credit: Leeanne Drucker)
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Ben Katzman’s DeGreaser

When the Student Out-Shreds the Master

As lead vocalist of the Bush Tetras, a seminal post-punk band in New York  City, Cynthia Sley produced some of the most distinctive aspects of the Tetras sounds. Sley&#8217;s vocals were half spoken, half sung and in songs like &#8220;Too Many Creeps&#8221; and &#8220;You Can&#8217;t Be Funky&#8221; she repeated simple phrases creating a hypnotic monotony similar to Pat Place&#8217;s guitar rhythms. &#8220;Too Many Creeps&#8221; was a mainstay of the infamous early &#8217;80s New York &#8220;No Wave&#8221; club scene.

Cynthia Sley

Bush Tetras and Gang Gang Dance’s Old Neighborhoods Are Malls Now

Felix Walworth is a Brooklyn based songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer. Their songwriting project, called Told Slant, has been described as &#8220;very sad&#8221; and &#8220;like church.&#8221;

Felix Walworth

Mutual Benefit and Felix Walworth (Florist) Feel Like Old Geezers

The composer/electronic musician/healer Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith’s new album The Mosaic of Transformation on Ghostly International is the follow up to the critically acclaimed 2017 album The Kid.
For her, expressions found in the physical body&#8217;s relationship to sound and color became the foundational frequency of the new album. A bright, sensorial glide through unbound wave phenomena and the radiant power discovered within oneself, with a distinct healing quality to it that existed long before society’s recent shift. Katilyn continued to explore the endless possibilities of electronic instruments as well as the shapes, movements, and expressions found in the physical body&#8217;s relationship to sound and color. It is this life-guiding interest that forms the foundational frequencies of the new album.  While writing and recording, she embraced a daily practice of physical movement, passing electricity through her body and into motion, in ways reflecting her audio practice, which sends currents through modular synthesizers and into the air through speakers.
Not a dancer by any traditional definition, she taught herself improvisatory movement realizing flexibility, strength, and unexpectedly, what she calls “a visual language” stemming from the human body and comprised of vibrational shapes. Understood as cymatics, as she says, &#8220;as a reference for how frequencies can be visualized,&#8221; much like a mosaic.
(Photo Credit: Chantal Anderson)

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith and East Forest Allow Themselves to Be Human

Hooveriii is a rock band from Los Angeles. Their latest record, Pointe, is out now via The Reverberation Appreciation Society.

Hooveriii

Hooveriii and Pachyman Are Ready For a Change

Supported by electronic and rock staples including deadmau5, Bring Me The Horizon, Senses Fail, Svdden Death, Kill The Noise, Of Mice &amp; Men, and more, HVDES brings a blackhearted yet thrilling aura to the next generation of electronic and rock music. With deep roots in her local alternative and punk scenes, HVDES possesses a versatile grasp of music across the spectrum, beginning with her earliest talents as a classical pianist. Armed with her influences in the rock scene and a laptop, HVDES found her sound by expressing her authentic self — turning the darkest corners of her life into music. She offers a strikingly sinister sound that resonates on the dance floor and in the mosh pit. Much like the ruler of the underworld, the sheer intensity of HVDES’ trademark sound represents her fierce persona.
There’s a reason HVDES has released on labels such as Kannibalen, Bloodhoney, Monstercat, and more; she’s carved out a lane for herself and herself alone with her own gritty, raw, and signature style. In 2019, HVDES unleashed her Stand Alone Complex EP, embarked on her first international tour across China and has since toured across the U.S. In 2020, she released her pivotal song &#8220;Fallout&#8221; and in 2022, co-produced and co-wrote the major re-imagination by Bring Me The Horizon &amp; Masked Wolf.
For the misfits and the misunderstood, HVDES delivers both a comforting and cutting-edge perspective on the dark side of life. Creating beauty where there’s pain, HVDES cuts deep in all the right places.

HVDES

HVDES and Darcy Michero (End Overdose) Think PLUR Should Include Harm Reduction

The Kills are the English-American rock duo of Jamie Hince and Alison Mosshart. Their latest record, God Games, is out now.
(Photo Credit: Myles Hendrik)

The Kills

The Kills and Bob Gruen Heart NY

Mac McCaughan is a co-founder of Merge Records and the singer and guitarist of Superchunk.

Mac McCaughan

Superchunk and Cable Ties Keep It Moving

Video Age is a rock band from New Orleans. Their latest record, Away From the Castle, is out October 27, 2023 on Winspear.

Video Age

TOPS Ask Video Age Some Hard-Hitting Questions

The Serfs are a deliberately nebulous and incidentally industrialist gang of dance-floor hymners — perturbed and tranced-out troubadours whose sound and musical ideology seems to be a causal manifestation of their immediate environments. Like their Ohio predecessors, The Serfs seem askew from the art that surrounds them, and proud of it.
Their latest record, Half Eaten By Dogs, is out October 27, 2023 on Trouble in Mind.
(Photo Credit: Liese Stiebritz)

The Serfs

Sophie Thatcher and The Serfs Are Evolving

Seven) Suns is an avant-metal/hardcore string quartet, formed by Earl Maneein, Adda Kridler, Fung Chern Hwei, and Jennifer DeVore. Their latest release, a note-for-note reimagining of the Dillinger Escape Plan&#8216;s One of Us Is the Killer, is out now on Silent Pendulum Records.
(Photo Credit: Max Sequeira)

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