BØRNS Dopamine Reviewed by: Matt Kelchner An endorsement from pop’s girl gang queen Taylor Swift. Opening for Charli XCX and Jack Antonoff. Working with producers behind Lana Del Rey’s Born To Die and Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Fantasy. Playing at Firefly, Lollapalooza and Read More

A Fragile Tomorrow Make Me Over Reviewed by: Fareeha Naim Make Me Over is the ambitious self-produced and self-engineered fifth studio album for North Carolina natives, A Fragile Tomorrow. And for a fifth album, it certainly does not disappoint. The whole album draws from the Read More

The Mantles All Odds End Reviewed by: Max Miller The Mantles have long sat atop the picket fence across which garage rock and beat music chat neighborly. The five-piece hail, as so many of their contemporaries do, from California — San Francisco, to be exact. Their third Read More

Princess Century Progress Reviewed by: Ziggy Merritt Certain albums tend to identify themselves with an imagined background soundtrack for everyday events or even the not-so-everyday ones. In Progress, the latest album by Maya Postepski aka Princess Century, she appears to Read More

Small Black Best Blues Reviewed by: Ziggy Merritt “Yeah we blew it back then, this time we practiced everything perfectly.” These are the lyrics found in the final track on Small Black’s latest album, Best Blues. They’re fitting for a band that has played on the margin of success Read More

Alex Bleeker and the Freaks Country Agenda Reviewed by: Felipe Tinoco Alex Bleeker and the Freaks had released their debut album in 2009. Now, six years later, they are releasing their third LP, Country Agenda. The Freaks’ band members have changed throughout the years, however, Read More