MONCHMONCH takes another bite with the video for “Vampira,” his seconds single from the new album GUARDILHA ESPANCA TATO, out now via Seloki records. The Brazilian singer’s name is an onomatopoetic reference to his digestive approach, chewing up punk rock alongside Brazilian influences and experimental sounds. “Vampira” takes the theme a step further, placing the German expressionist aesthetic inside the belly of poet Oswald de Andrade’s Anthropophagist Manifesto, a radical modernist text urging Brazilian artists to consume and digest the culture of their European colonizers as a means of libe ..read more

“Fort,” the new single from Julia Logue tells a story of two selves. The music video, released February 3rd, opens in blues. Logue sits in the dim light under a tent of sheets. “Building up a fort, don’t let them in,” goes the descending line, but as the camera slowly zooms in, the blue gives way to a bit of gold, and she begins her upward run: “once you look around you see your walls were only paper thin.” “This single is about the walls or “fort” we create around ourselves for some sense of protection. I wrote this song during a very dark period in my life when I could feel myself pushing e ..read more

What is it, exactly, that turns platitude into prayer? Meme into mantra? What is it about repetition and song that gives words the power to affect change? Nevada Lacy explores these questions on her newest EP, It’s Hard To Change Your Brain, released last fall. The title hangs over the collection of songs as a goal Lacy sets out to accomplish by the singing of them. The EP begins with “Our Realities,” finding Lacy musing over the ways in which we construct, consciously or unconsciously, our own experience. “Some days it’s easy to see/we make our own realities” she sings as the soft arpeggios ..read more

The godparents of the Portland music community, longtime duo Papi Fimbres and Shana Lindbeck, deliver their first-ever music video for their multi-lingual psychedelic cumbia-kraut band, Dreckig. This breathtaking video is a must-see and features the track “Non Zero Sum” from the band’s slapping new album, Digital Exposure. The opening scene shows the couple adorned in gorgeous golden cloaks, bearing torches, and heading into the forest, inviting the viewer into a deeper, more sacred space. We are embraced by the couple’s visions of crystal prisms hanging about, catching the light and reflectin ..read more

Terry’s Paradise was almost lost. In March of 2020, Sam Barber, the mind behind the project, had just released Shoobeedoo High, Shoobeedoo Low Pt. 1, the first of a pair of EPs, and had put together a five piece band to begin touring the new material. The onset of the pandemic put a stop to all that.  “Losing that momentum was devastating, but I felt like I had more to say sonically, enough so that I wasn’t ready to move on from Terry’s Paradise,” says Barber. He put out the second Shoobeedoo installment in September of that year, four more songs recorded in the before-times, but beyond t ..read more

Having avoided most reviews and early takes on “The Wild Hearts Tour,” I went in expecting a collaborative weaving of the three indie stars’ songbooks. Ultimately, this experience gave attendees a breezy, joyful three-set affair akin to a mini outdoor festival. The crowd largely skewed from “they look familiar,” down to someone I did in fact see at brunch earlier. Edgefield remains a very charming pleasure garden of poplars and pines with an unusually good sound system and lots of room to spread out on the grass, which all helps ease the pain of $12 IPA’s and cocktails. Opener Quinn Christo ..read more

We’re only two years into the 2020s, and the first animated masterpiece of the decade is out: Mad God, a feature-length stop-motion animation epic 30 years in the making. The film is the opus of Hollywood visual effects artist Phil Tippett, who began the independent project in 1990 and had to resort to crowdfunding in the 2010s to complete it. Mad God was finally released at the tail-end of 2021, and is still now reaching theaters throughout the country. Tippett achieved fame in the 70s and 80s for his work in the Star Wars trilogy and RoboCop, winning an Oscar for the creature makeup in Retu ..read more

Out of the depths of pandemic doom and gloom, a new world of art and sound are beginning to resurface. Amidst fresh new bands and longtime legends, Pool Boys floats somewhere in between: their long awaited debut EP “Obviously, Doctor” set to release June 21, two years later than originally planned. After laying low the past few years, Pool Boys is making a splash into the summer, kicking off their release at Mississippi Studios alongside Night Heron and Sunbathe. Rocking cobalt and embracing harmonies, songwriters Emma Browne and Caroline Jackson sing candidly about feminism and equity with a ..read more

In unique “synth-heavy, goth-pop” fashion, Bijoux Cone, formerly known as Bryson Cone, explores themes of love, loss, and identity in her debut album “Magnetism”—released pre-pandemic in 2019 by LA-based Cleopatra Records. Directed and edited by the artist herself, the video for the sultry track, “Desire,” infuses vulnerable close-ups, floral and lace motifs, shadow play, and glossy graphics provided by local artist Heavi Mello. Reminiscent of the film “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown,” and now-vintage Estee Lauder or Exclamation fragrance marketing, the video may leave one feel ..read more

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