Singer, rapper, poet, author, and songwriter Margret Wander—better known by her stage name, Dessa—has been one of the most prolific and multifaceted members of Minneapolis hip-hop collective Doomtree since she joined it in the mid-2000s. Her 2018 LP, Chime (Doomtree), is one of her strongest, poppiest, and most electronic-influenced releases yet. The album is equal […]
Tag: Vol. 48 No. 20
Issue of Feb. 21 – 27, 2019
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Power-electronics duo Sibling explore the duality of alienation and belonging on Survivor’s Guilt
New York power-electronics duo Sibling was started by Jacob Winans and Lux Philips shortly after they met at a May 2017 show at Brooklyn DIY arts space/music venue Heck, where Philips was tattooing concertgoers in the basement (in an e-mail to me, he recalls giving Winans “a fucked up clown face on their abdomen”). Soon […]
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Bob Mould hammers out more reasons to love him on Sunshine Rock
There are a couple of things you need to remember when listening to a new Bob Mould record. First off, Mould will never be able to meet the fervor and frenzy of his Husker Dü days or the heartfelt perfection of the Sugar records. And when an artist has a discography as vast as his, […]
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Goth luminary Peter Murphy reunites with Bauhaus cohort David J to celebrate In the Flat Field
Back in the day, NME music writer Andy Gill (not to be confused with the Gang of Four guitarist) described Bauhaus’s 1980 debut full-length, In the Flat Field, as “hip Black Sabbath.” That’s pretty accurate; the only way Gill went wrong was that he meant it as an insult. By the time of the album’s […]
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Miya Folick is a pop star in the making on Premonitions
LA singer-songwriter Miya Folick sings with such earnestness and power that if for some reason she instructed listeners to stomp on kittens in her lyrics, I’d be tempted to oblige. The sound of her voice and her command over it provide a strong focal point throughout her scattered, occasionally florid debut album, October’s Premonitions (Interscope). […]