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“Why is it that we never have enough with what’s inside of us? Today we must scream at the top of our lungs that we

My time at Round 2 of Olympia Hardcore Festival almost ended before it started. My companion and I arrived at Olympia’s Obsidian about two bands

Near the heart of Lily Mastrodimos’ debut LP as Long Neck, Heights, is a clip of Fred Rogers’ inimitable baritone. His voice warm and didactic, you

There is a history lesson attached to virtually any genre of Puerto Rican-made music. To start, there’s the island’s long culture of reggae, and later

In 1977, when NASA scientists pressed a Golden Record of sounds and music representative of Earth’s cultures to include on the Voyager 1 spacecraft, they

Joseph Campbell’s 1949 book The Hero with a Thousand Faces remains, arguably, the most archetypal theory of the hero’s journey. Campbell’s hero cycle can (and

It seems like every time I visit Jib Kidder’s bandcamp page—admittedly not often enough to keep up with the steady stream of music he’s producing—he’s

Ellen Kempner is laughing at the abyss. One of the first things you might notice talking to the 21-year old mastermind behind Palehound is her

San Francisco’s Void Boys make harsh music for sensitive ears. They pile fizzling chords, whip-crack drums and lurching stop-start meter changes atop languid, serene melodies.

“I’m figuring out ways to make my version of pop music,” explains Jake Lazovick. “I call it fake music or failed pop music. I don’t