Artist Profile: Jehan’s delicate subversion through sincerity

Jehan is a twenty-four-year-old Australian songwriter who fuses intricate guitar work with a soft lyrical sensibility. There is a kind of raw sincerity in his intention (“At the Gate”) that still somehow manages to transcend an overpopulated boy-folk-singer market. Matched with lovely production, Jehan is a new voice worthy of notice. […]

Artist Profile: James Sudakow explores dark matter with his electric violin

Having been raised on these kinds of records, James Sudakow, an electric violoinist based out of Long Beach, California felt like a sort of soothing blanket. He mixes synths with electro-loops and recycled breaks with live drums, percussion, electric guitar and bass and of course his whining, squealing, soaring electric violin played through a Marshall stack. […]

Artist Profile: Paper Arrows will sizzle through the air and set fires

Paper Arrows play some pretty amazing aural tricks – one moment they evoke Jack Joseph Puig-produced Canadian band Big Wreck with its thundering 22″ kick and triple amped hollow body guitars, the next lead singer Joe Goodkin sounds like the love child of Neil Young and Thom Yorke. But somehow the band manages to avoid […] […]

Artist Profile: Atari Blitzkrieg is Hip-Hop’s Cheshire Cat

Atari Blitzkrieg is putting out a full-length record. Why this is amazing is that it comes after the self-release of ten, count ’em – TEN E.P.s. That is a lot of practice and market-testing. You can feel it when you first encounter his wicked laid-back ciphers – there is something immediately centered, […] […]