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The tendency among some entertainers to embellish or conceal their personal histories isn’t unique to rap. The Rolling Stones’ youthful reputation as societal terrors belied »
The origin story for Athens, Georgia’s indie-pop heroes of Montreal starts with a teen-aged Kevin Barnes writing and recording music on a four-track cassette machine »
Synthesizers weren’t a novelty when brothers Gary and Dwayne Dassing embraced them in the mid-1980s. But plugging synths into a Commodore C64 home computer to »
South Florida has a way of sneaking into your bloodstream: slow, humid, and stubbornly resistant to the fast-twitch reflexes of big-city living. For PureHoney artist »
Not every zingy title that Noelia Solange came up with for the programming at this year’s Subtropic Film Festival survived in-house review. There was, for »
It’s a Halloween tableau straight from the algorithm: Wednesday Addams drifts by in black lace, while a neon Labubu bounces alongside Blue Origin’s all-female space »
For nearly four decades, Andy Bell has been the luminous voice at the heart of Erasure, giving synth-pop its pulse of joy and longing. Songs »
Petite League have worked hard to maintain their DIY ethos in the decade since their scrappy college basement show days at Syracuse University. The lo-fi »
When not creating and posting whimsical illustrations under the Instagram handle soulfuzzy, our artist of the month Stephen Dewsnap plays guitar and sings in the »
“I’ve spent my entire adult life raising kids,” artist Cary Daly says. “Now my youngest just graduated, and I’m standing here like … okay, so »
MEMORIALS don’t mind being referred to as “Stereolab’s evil twin,” but that influential band — who MEMORIALS happen to be opening for at Miami Beach »
