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Chris Barnes is a pianist and songwriter who records as Gem Club. The latest Gem Club record, Emerald Press, is out now.

Gem Club

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Gem Club and Charlie Engman Talk Through a Decade-Plus of Collaboration

Craig Heed is a musician from New York who plays in the bands Miracle Sweepstakes and Hit. Hit&#8217;s latest record, <a href="https://hitsongs.bandcamp.com/album/bestseller" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bestseller</a>, is out now on One Weird Trick.
(Photo Credit: Sam Blieden)

Craig Heed

The Zombies’ Begin Here Tells The Full Story

Paula Kelley is a composer and a vocalist and guitarist for the band Drop Nineteens. Her latest solo record, Blinking as the Starlight Burns Out, is out now on Wharf Cat.

Paula Kelley

Paula Kelley (Drop Nineteens) and Andy Sherriff (Chapterhouse) Enjoy the Moment

Christian Stadsgaard, also known as his solo moniker Vanity Productions, has become a crucial figure in the contemporary Nordic electronic and experimental music scenes in the past decade.
Standing at the helm of the label Posh Isolation with Loke Rahbek, Stadsgaard is responsible for one of the most consistent and compelling labels to both define and elaborate the many productive sides of the underground in the last decade. As a performing and recording artist his work with Rahbek as Damien Dubrovnik was a critical project in the contemporary noise milieu throughout the 2010s. More recently his collaborative work with Jonas Rönnberg (Varg2™) and Isak Hansen as The Empire Line has gained significant notoriety.
However, it&#8217;s in Vanity Productions that the full breadth of the emotive intensity of Stadsgaard&#8217;s work is expressed. His collaboration with the seminal artist Merzbow in 2019 led to his Coastal Erosion album for iDEAL Recordings, prefacing a recent series of works that take their cues from minimalist composition.
The latest Vanity Productions record, The Vanity Project, is out now on Northern Electronics.

Vanity Productions

Vanity Productions and Varg2™ Want Real Anti-Culture to Come Back

Groupie is a Brooklyn-based band known for turning introspection into kinetic, cathartic sound. Their music fuses the emotional edge of punk with the immersive textures of shoegaze and dream pop — sharp, shimmering, and unafraid of vulnerability. Groupie has become a mainstay in NYC’s indie scene with a sound that merges dream pop sheen and punk urgency. Since the release of their debut album Ephemeral in 2021, they have shared the stage with indie greats like Warpaint, Silversun Pickups, Neon Trees, and many more. Led by bassist and frontwoman Ashley Kossakowski, a queer, first-generation daughter of Polish immigrants, and joined by drummer Aaron Silberstein, and guitarists Eric Rubin and Eamon Lebow, the band’s evolution from the raw immediacy of their debut Ephemeral to their upcoming sophomore album reflects a sound fully in bloom — cinematic in scope, but deeply human at its core.

Groupie

Introducing: Groupie’s “Swan Song”

Marissa Nadler is a musician, painter and animator based in Massachusetts. She has recorded seven studio albums. Follow her on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/marissa_nadler/?hl=en" target="_blank">Instagram</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/marissanadler" target="_blank">Twitter</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/MarissaNadlerMusic/?fref=ts" target="_blank">Facebook</a>.
(Photo credit: <a href="http://www.ebruyildiz.net/">Ebru Yildiz</a>)

Marissa Nadler

Gracie and Rachel and Marissa Nadler Feel At Home Together

ESYA is the solo project from Glasgow-based musician Ayşe Hassan, of Savages, Kite Base, and 180db. Her debut album Chasing Desire merges Hassan&#8217;s signature bass playing with electronics to create a unique blend of industrial pop, and is out now on AOK Records.
(Photo Credit: Neeq Serene)

ESYA

Hear First: ESYA’s Chasing Desire

Hannah Lew is a filmmaker, musician, and visual artist in San Francisco. Her film work has screened at the San Francisco Video Festival, Theatre Arteau, the Red Vic Theater, Artists Television Access and SFMOMA. She received both the Leo Diner and Robin Eichman Awards in 2009 for her films Stoplight and Over the Hill. She plays bass and sings in the bands Grass Widow, Cold Beat, and Generation Loss.
(Photo Credit: Sean Hewitt)

Hannah Lew

Hannah Lew and Chris Stewart Just Want to Connect

Pictish Trail, the alias of Scottish pop sensation Johnny Lynch, has resolutely furrowed his own path, steadily creating a unique catalogue of recordings and performances, while eschewing the blueprint of the predictable singer-songwriter in favor of something untidily intriguing. 
(Photo Credit: Stephanie Gibson)

Pictish Trail

Hot Chip and Pictish Trail Don’t Take Themselves Too Seriously

Juliana Hatfield is a singer, songwriter and guitar player. She began her music career in the late 1980s in Boston with the Blake Babies. Since then she has released approximately fifteen solo albums and been involved with numerous other groups including the Lemonheads, Some Girls (with Freda Love Smith) and MInor Alps (with Matthew Caws from Nada Surf). Her latest project is a collaboration with Paul Westerberg called the I Don’t Cares. Their debut album, Wild Stab, came out in early 2016. Hatfield&#8217;s new album, Pussycat, will be released on April 28, 2017.
(Photo credit: Brad Walsh)

Juliana Hatfield

Will Dailey and Juliana Hatfield Are Their Music

10 years ago this April, Chicago’s Ratboys put out their first collection of songs. The RATBOY EP, consisting of five indie-folk dorm room recordings, was free to download on Bandcamp and humbly passed around to friends on social media. 
Cut to 2021, and Ratboys would normally be celebrating their 10-year anniversary on the road, playing a mix of songs from their very first release to their most recent, last year’s critically-acclaimed Printer’s Devil. Instead, just two weeks after the album’s February 2020 release and mere days before heading out on their first headline tour, the COVID-19 pandemic forced all touring to a halt. Despite not being able to play in-person shows for the past year, Ratboys has managed to stay busy by performing their music online via their own Virtual Tour series and by finding a different way to celebrate their first decade of being a band.

Ratboys

Ratboys and Remember Sports Made Their New Record in the Same Room

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

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