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New Chance is an electronic music producer and vocalist from Toronto. Her recent projects include a collaboration with reggae legend Willi Williams and the musical duo, Nice Hands, with poet Aisha Sasha John. She sings backup with Chandra and with Jennifer Castle’s Angels of Death.
(Photo Credit: Yuula Benivolski)

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We Are Time is All Hands on Deck

Anjimile Chithambo — or, better known as just Anjimile — is a singer-songwriter currently based in Durham, NC. His latest record, The King, is out now on 4AD.

Anjimile

Anjimile and L’Rain Get a Little Confrontational

Ketch Secor is a songwriter, author, co-founder of the first Episcopal School in Nashville, TN, and the frontman of the Grammy-winning Americana string band Old Crow Medicine Show. Their latest record, Jubilee, is out now on ATO Records.

Ketch Secor

Valerie June and Old Crow Medicine Show Are Rippling the Pond Together

Water From Your Eyes is a Brooklyn-based dance rock band. Their album Structure is out now on Wharf Cat.

Water From Your Eyes

Water From Your Eyes and Model/Actriz Aren’t From Anywhere

Ava Mendoza and Devin Hoff — two long-time, exceptionally gifted friends — finally got together to create together! And together with another pair of exceptionally gifted musicians — James Brandon Lewis and Ches Smith — they created Echolocation! Echolocation is out now on AUM Fidelity.
(Photo Credit: J Houston)

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Ava Mendoza and Devin Hoff are Mendoza Hoff Revels

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

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.

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