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Horse Lords is a band founded in Baltimore in 2010, consisting of Owen Gardner (guitar), Max Eilbacher (bass), Sam Haberman (drums), Andrew Bernstein (alto saxophone/percussion). Their latest record, Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive!, is out now on RVNG Intl.
(Photo Credit: Kasia Zacharko)

Horse Lords

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Mood Board: Horse Lords’ Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive!

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Curls Ultra is an underground post groovy rock band and activist network based in America. The band is known for their exhilarating live shows which feature Boredoms-esque noise jams, Can-inspired kosmiche grooves, and tender ballads depicting the degradation of the American psyche. They have performed at Pitchfork Music Festival, toured across multiple countries and opened for or collaborated with Tame Impala, Ariel Pink, Frank Hurricane, Sunburned Hand Of The Man, Wild Pink, Salesforce Child, and most recently Tim Heidecker’s Dekkar.
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Mood Board: Curls Ultra’s American Blood

Evan Shornstein, aka Photay, is a composer, drummer, DJ, producer, and musical polymath based in LA.

Evan Shornstein

Booker Stardrum is a composer, drummer/percussionist, and producer based in Kingston, NY.

Booker Stardrum

Mood Board: Booker Stardrum and Evan Shornstein’s OOPS!

Allison Goldfarb and Jackson MacIntosh are the LA synth pop duo Paycheque. Their debut self-titled record is out now on Mansions and Millions.

Paycheque

Mood Board: Paycheque’s Paycheque

Formed in Omaha in the early 2000s by Stephen Pedersen following his departure from Cursive, Criteria has always lived in the space between melody and weight, control and collapse, moving only when there was something real enough to justify it. Criteria’s latest record SEIZE! reflects a period of profound personal and professional change: relationships dissolving, chapters closing, and attention turning toward the fragile beauty of the present. It’s out now on Spartan Records. 
(Photo Credit: Audrey Hertel)

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Mood Board: Criteria’s SEIZE!

Evolfo

Mood Board: Evolfo’s Of Love

Junior Varsity is the LA-based duo Greg Aram and Zach Michel. Their EP Ready is out now.

Junior Varsity

Mood Board: Junior Varsity’s Ready

Through the exhaustion, it persists. Gnaw’s glowing power-pop draws deep from a tired tension: a perpetually shifting negotiation between ‘90s alt-rock romanticism, fuzzed out upon machine-gun drumming; pummeling riffs mangled through digital processing and noise; tales traversing lingering memory and motion, mesmerized by hypergaze-influenced joy rushes. Brandishing a heavy palette of power pop immediacy — equally indebted to indie rock contemporaries like Momma and Slow Pulp and ‘90s grit a la Hole and Smashing Pumpkins — the EP’s four serrated songs thrill through life’s pushes and pulls. 
On their debut EP, Inside a Machine That’s Glistening, the three-piece draws from that weighty palette to weave four songs that glow amidst the grit. There’s a curious, yet never overbearing darkness to them: confessionals channeled through Daniel Lim’s serrated guitar work, dancing between Tara Tan’s cautious, whispery vocals. Navigating a spectrum from sheer wonder (“Star”) to fear (“Gash”) and fatigue (“This Is My Life”), Tan’s personal stories shift from dreamy to dramatic. Meanwhile, drummer Zakhran Khan’s fine-tuned rhythms rip into these sincere questions, at times accelerating to torrents of catharsis, while at others simply adding to moments triumphant.

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Mood Board: Gnaw’s Inside a Machine That’s Glistening

Accessory is the solo recording project of Chicago based Jason Balla (Dehd, Earring). The debut Accessory record, Dust, is out now.

Accessory

Mood Board: Accessory’s Dust

Over the course of the last two decades, Detroit&#8217;s ADULT. (Nicola Kuperus and Adam Lee Miller) have been perhaps one of the most fervent proponents of a dark, dance aesthetic that harnesses the perverse aspects of the late &#8217;70s analog dystopian post-modernism.

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Mood Board: ADULT.’s Kissing Luck Goodbye

For decades, Spencer Zahn and Will Graefe have traced similar journeys. They grew up in Massachusetts and relocated to New York City in the 2010s. Performing in kindred groups, such as Star Rover and Father Figures, the duo first crossed paths in the Brooklyn indie scene. They now reside in Los Angeles, contributing to California’s underground and relishing the fresh tempo of West Coast living.
From this rumination emerges Sudden Quarterly. Zahn’s new label, dedicated to supporting the material of friends and exploring a fresh mode of productivity. It focuses on genre-defying instrumental music and improvisation. “Each year will have a theme and an album comes out every quarter based on that theme,” Zahn elaborates. “2026 will be all duet pairings.”
This prompt yielded Zahn and Graefe’s collaborative debut, I Envy Light.

Will Graefe and Spencer Zahn

Mood Board: Will Graefe & Spencer Zahn’s I Envy Light

Otracami is the project of Brooklyn-based artist Camila Ortiz. Her latest record, Runoff, is out now via Figure &amp; Ground.

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