Andrew R Tonry

SLEEPING BEAUTIES Not pictured: diarrhea, Hot Pockets, vomit. CHUCHI ELAM “IT STARTED as a way not to die,” says Hart Gledhill of Portland’s Sleeping Beauties. “It started as a way to kill time from diarrhea, from Hot Pockets, and not vomiting.” While poetic in its disgusting flourishes, the nihilism of Gledhill and Sleeping Beauties is […]

Their self-titled debut is poetic in its disgusting flourishes.

MO TROPER Keeping doctors away. SAMANTHA SUTCLIFFE “WHEN I WAS YOUNGER I wanted to be famous,” says Mo Troper. “When I was a kid that’s what I wanted to do: I wanted to be in a famous band.” Perhaps it’s no wonder—growing up, Troper was surrounded by images of the world’s most famous band. “My […]

Carolyn Hirtle “Dark Creedence,” the opening track and lead single from Nap Eyes’ debut, Whine of the Mystic, begins with a pounding floor tom. A bass joins, thumping along on root notes only. The guitars chime, and eventually they’ll screech, but the chords never change. Volumes and velocities ebb and flow while singer Nigel Chapman […]