Music

We spoke to Peter Ricq of the Humans about his side-project, LADYFRND, with vocalist Yuki Holland on their video for "Un Petit Message".

New Zealand pop act The Naked and Famous had a mountain to climb when following up 2010’s Passive Me, Aggressive You.

I’m probably not the right guy to review this album. From the first note, I knew this was going to be catnip for me. I was unfamiliar with the band name but some quick research brought me to learn that SISU is Sandra Vu’s project. Sandra Vu, for the unfamiliar and unwashed masses, is the demolishing, gorgeous drummer for the Dum Dum Girls. She changes roles here to take on lead vocal duties.

I’ll be honest: I listened to this album on my way to eat a burrito, while on my way to put stuff in a storage unit … by myself. I don’t think this is the most appropriate context to listen to it. The name of the outfit says a lot about the music. It’s probably perfect if you’re hanging out with topless women, gay dudes, and X dealers. That said, I pray by my bedside every night that I might spend my life constantly in the midst of such a menagerie.

Natives of Victoria, BC, The Backhomes—a musical project comprised of Kees Dekker and Aimee van Drimmelen—releases their music video for "You Gotta Move" off of their debut album, Only Friend.

As The Balconies embark on some extensive touring they are kicking off the season with their new video and single for 'The Slo' off their upcoming release. Haunting animations come to life in 'The Slo', produced and illustrated by Anne Douris, and ION has the exclusive premiere of the new video. Check it out!

So this is totally a whisky dick album. You had a great time with it, got that ass back to your place, but something is amiss *ahem* “down there”. All is definitely not lost, so let’s focus on the positives: you had a great night, you might have met your future dreamboat, and heavy petting is still a thing (and don’t let those rainbow party kids tell you anything different). When you wake up tomorrow with that headache, and make that piece of easy-on-the-eyes lying next to you breakfast (because you’re not an asshole) you realize that you have another chance.

You love music. That’s why you’re reading the reviews section of this magazine.  It’s why you spend hours on YouTube navigating through live performances and full album uploads by your favorite artists, and why you put painstaking effort into creating iTunes playlists for a plane ride to tropical somewhere or your road trip through the Rockies. If you need some new road trip jams for your summer soundtrack, look no further than the latest offering by North Carolina indie rock vets Superchunk!

Here's the question that Ty Segall's newest album Sleeper must address: having released at least one proper album a year for five years straight—not to mention a constant stream of EPs, collaborations, compilation appearances, live albums, side projects, etc.—do we need a new Ty Segall album? Especially when it arrives a mere six months after the last?