MOUNT MORIAH “Go ahead, stick your hand in. It’s not a trap!” LISSA GOTWALS MOUNT MORIAH singer Heather McEntire has a voice like an ember, shielded from the cold, harsh breeze by the cupped hands of her band. Bassist Casey Toll’s loose-limbed but broad-shouldered grooves ignite McEntire like a gentle breath. Jenks Miller’s guitar licks, […]
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Mount Moriah’s Southern Gothic
North Carolina’s Mount Moriah’s got an old-time musical religion.
Get Far Out with Sunflower Bean
The Brooklyn trio wears its influences on its cardigan sleeve.
Howard’s Creation Through Deconstruction
HOWARD And the Howard-ettes. HOWARD FEIBUSCH, the primary songwriter behind the Brooklyn quartet Howard, subverts the typical artistic process of absorbing, interpreting, and recreating experiences and environments with his band’s forthcoming EP, Please Recycle—a sort of sequel to their 2015 debut full-length, Religion. Please Recycle is made up entirely of sounds and tracks initially recorded […]
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Howard’s creation through deconstruction.
Former Fiery Furnace Eleanor Friedberger Has a New View
ELEANOR FRIEDBERGER Out of the Furnaces. ELEANOR FRIEDBERGER is hard on herself. “I don’t see myself as succeeding,” she says. “I see myself as persevering.” Friedberger is perhaps still best known as one half of Dadaist pop duo the Fiery Furnaces, which she started with her brother Matthew in 2000. The Furnaces went on hiatus […]
Slowing Down with Eleanor Friedberger
Eleanor Friedberger’s New View
Julia Holter Gets Moody
The passport pop of Have You in My Wilderness.
The Beautiful Bummer of Majical Cloudz
Sarah O’Drisoll Majical Cloudz performs tomorrow night (Sunday, January 24) with She-Devils at Mississippi Studios (3939 N Mississippi). Details here. Canadian electronic duo Majical Cloudz makes music that exists on binary spectrums: sound and silence, vulnerability and emotional distance, black and white. “The music is intentionally muted in certain ways,” vocalist Devon Welsh says via […]
The Beautiful Bummer of Majical Cloudz
The Canadian duo’s muted music exists on binary spectrums.
